The painter Rien Bout (Rotterdam, 1937 - Rotterdam, 2003) has built up an oeuvre of warm and colorful magical realism, with room for stylization and modesty. Bout was born and died in Rotterdam. In the 2003s he studied at the Rotterdam art academy. Then the rest of the world beckoned. He went to study in Antwerp and started a long series of trips, to Istanbul, Rome, Spain and Paris. He taught at the academy in The Hague, and also briefly in Mexico. From there he took a warmer palette with him, which can be seen in his paintings, of still lifes, human figures, the harbor, the landscape. With this Latin American color scheme he wanted to give mystique to his often everyday subjects, where he liked to play a game with 'autonomous art' and decoration: the images are often a flower curtain or a tablecloth, or as in his mural on Katendrecht a number of roses. that could have been on a wallpaper, but are now also the main subject. After a life full of art, he seems to have died in armor: he passed away in his studio on a Sunday evening in February XNUMX.