# Theo Koning

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{{Short description|Australian artist}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}}
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'''Theo Koning''' (born 1950 in the [Netherlands](/source/Netherlands)) was a [Western Australia](/source/Western_Australia)n [painter](/source/Painting), [sculptor](/source/sculpture), [printmaker](/source/printmaking) and [art teacher](/source/Art_education),<ref>Snell, Ted (1985). Theo Koning stepping into the painter's world. In Art and Australia. 23 (1), 69-72.</ref> who for a time exhibited with the [Galerie Dusseldorf](/source/Galerie_Dusseldorf), Turner Galleries and Art Collective WA in [Perth](/source/Perth%2C_Western_Australia).<ref>Snell, Ted (1979). Six artists working in Western Australia. In Art and Australia. 16 (4), 357-361.</ref>

Koning immigrated to Western Australia in 1953 at the age of three, and graduated in fine art at the [Claremont Technical School](/source/Claremont_Technical_School)<ref>p 56-58 of Snell, Ted, 1949- & Goddard, Julian & Marcon, Marco & Curtin University of Technology. Visual Culture Research Unit (1991). In The Painted image : twenty contemporary Western Australian painters. Visual Culture Research Unit, Curtin University of Technology, [Bentley, W.A.]</ref> in 1973, in the same year becoming one of the founding members of the [Western Australian Sculptors' Association](/source/Western_Australian_Sculptors'_Association).<ref>In [Woldendorp](/source/Richard_Woldendorp), Richard & Stringer, John (1995). ''Western Australian artists in residence''. Sandpiper Press, West Perth.{{ISBN|0958945411}}</ref>

Koning's works have gained extensive representation in art galleries throughout Australia, including the [National Gallery of Australia](/source/National_Gallery_of_Australia).<ref>A regional scenario: an interview with Theo Koning. -by Goddard, Julian- Praxis M, no.20, () 1988, pp. 28–31</ref><ref>[http://nga.gov.au/AboutUs/Reports/AR07.pdf Annual Report 2007]</ref><ref>[http://nga.gov.au/AboutUs/Reports/AR02.pdf Annual Report 2002]</ref>

Koning died in 2022 at age 71. <ref>{{cite web | url=https://artcollectivewa.com.au/news/theo-koning-1950-2022/ | title=Theo Koning (1950-2022) }}</ref>

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