Jacoba van Heemskerck

Jacoba van Heemskerck Berendina Beest ( born April 1, 1876 in The Hague; † August 3, 1923 in Domburg ) was a Dutch painter, glass painter and graphic artist.

Life

Van Heemskerck comes from a noble Dutch family, her father, Jacob, Edward was a naval officer who also painted in his spare time and Jacoba, the youngest of his six children, introduced in the painting. She attended 1897-1901 Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten in The Hague. Other teachers were in the Netherlands. Ferdinand Hart Nibbrig Eugène Carrière, and in Paris, where she came into contact with the modern art In the Domburgse summer she received from 1908 by Jan Toorop support, Piet Mondriaan and met with Lodewijk Schelfhout and won a lasting friendship with Marie Tak van Poortvliet ( 1871-1936 ), who now acted as their patron and they in their Domburgse house with a studio temporarily lived.

She took on the ideas of Cubism and was invited to the First German Autumn Salon in Berlin, where she was able to show four pictures in 1913 by Herwarth Walden. The artists exhibiting there the Blue Rider, Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, influenced their way into abstraction. After 1914, she also produced stained glass. With Walden, who was her agent and also space in his magazine Der Sturm offered, she led in subsequent years a regular correspondence. On the 23 storm - exhibition she was already owns 21 works, in the fall of 1914 she had a solo exhibition in Hamburg.

After her early death Walden in Berlin organized a retrospective and devoted the seventh volume of the Storm picture books.

Literature / Exhibitions

  • A. H. Huussen Jr., J.F.A. van Paaschen - Louwerse: Jacoba van Heemskerck, schilderes uit roeping, Waanders, 2005
  • Herbert Henkel: Jacoba van Heemskerck, 1876-1923: an expressionist artist, exhibition Berlin ( Haus am Waldsee ), Stuttgart ( Württemberg Art Society ), Bonn ( Rhineland Museum ), Saarbrücken (Saarland - Museum ), Erlangen (urban gallery) from summer 1983 to February 1984.
  • Artists of the world, vol 71, p 29, De Gruyter, Berlin 2011
  • Karla Bilang: "Modern and anthroposophy: Jacoba van Heemskerck ", in: Karla Bilang: Women in the " STORM ". Artists of the modern age. Aviva -Verlag, Berlin, 2013, pp. 69-80
  • Karla Bilang: " Jacoba van Heemskerck ", in: Britta Jürgs (ed.). " Like a Nilbraut, thrown into the waves Portraits Expressionist artists and writers ," Aviva -Verlag, Berlin, 1998, pp. 93-113
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