Moniek Toebosch

Moniek Toebosch
Moniek Toebosch during her final performance: Erasing and Recovering on a Saturday Afternoon in June 2011.
Born
Monique Pauline Maria Josephine Toebosch

(1948-08-19)19 August 1948
Breda, Netherlands
Died24 November 2012(2012-11-24) (aged 64)
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Other namesPaul Rubens
Alma materBrabant Conservatory
AKV St. Joost
Occupation(s)Actress
Artist
Musician
Years active1967–2011
Spouses
Cornelis Houwer
(m. 1970; div. 1976)
    Rudolf Johannes Luijters
    (m. 1999; div. 2004)
    AwardsSandberg Prize
    Arti Medal of Arti et Amicitiae

    Monique Pauline Maria Josephine Toebosch, also known by the pseudonym Paul Rubens, (19 August 1948 – 24 November 2012) was a Dutch actress, artist and musician. She began her performing career in 1969 and produced improvised music. Toebosch collaborated with Michel Waisvisz in multiple theatre productions and did solo productions before moving into the visual arts scene as an installation artist. She was a lecturer at the audiovisual department of Amsterdam's Gerrit Rietveld Academie; at ArtEZ University of Arts during the 1996–97 academic year; at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten from 1996 to 2000 and was director of the post-academic course DasArts (later the Master of Theatre of the Amsterdam University of the Arts from 2004 to 2007. She was a recipient of the Sandberg Prize and the Arti Medal of Arti et Amicitiae.