Christine Boumeester

Untitled
	Christine Boumeester , around 1950
	Linocut, signed in pencil by the artist, "Christine".
	9.5 x 13.2 cm
	Private collection

Annie Christine Boumeester (born August 12, 1904 in Batavia, Indonesia (today Djakarta ), † January 10, 1971 in Paris ) was a Dutch- French painter and artist.

Life

Christine Boumeester was born in Indonesia in 1904, where her Dutch family was already the fifth generation. It was not until she was 10 that she made her first trip to Europe. In 1921, after settling in Sumatra for a few years , she finally returned to Holland ( Texel ). From 1922 to 1924 she studied at the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten (KABK) in The Hague and passed the exam as a drawing teacher in 1925. The teaching, however, did not meet their expectations. So she spent a few months in Nice (southern France) and then worked under the direction of the painter Reuters in a studio in Amsterdam . After several trips (including to Germany), she finally got her first solo exhibition in Amsterdam in 1935 in the “Santee Landweer” gallery. In the same year she went to Paris and enrolled at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière on Montparnasse . There she met the painter Henri Goetz and married him six months later. Boumeester exhibited in several Parisian galleries and finally got a solo exhibition in 1937. For a short period she devoted herself to surrealist art and began to paint abstractly under the influence of the painter Hans Hartung , whom she had met through her husband . She also shared her studio with Hartung and through him made friends with other painters and writers. a .: Kandinsky , Schneider, Eva Gonzalès , Vieira da Silva, Szenès, Breton, Eluard, Ubac , de Stael, Picabia, Picasso , Lam and Arp.

In 1939 Boumeester received a contract with the Jeanne Bucher Gallery , but when the war broke out she traveled with her husband to Carcassonne in the Languedoc , where they joined the Belgian surrealist group. The couple eventually fled underground and worked for the French resistance . Together with Ubac and Dotremont , they founded the magazine "La main à plume" ("The hand with the pen"). However, when they learned that they had been denounced to the Germans as resistance fighters, they left Carcassonne in early 1942. Henri Goetz, who was an American citizen, procured forged papers, and Boumeester was able to continue working as an artist in Nice under the name Christine Henri Goetz. There they met Nicolas de Staël , Francis Picabia , Jean Arp and Alberto Magnelli . During this time, Boumeester only signed her works with the first name Christine. In 1949 she received French citizenship.

In 1962, she translated the written in 1926 article "Point and Line to the surface" of Kandinsky into French. From 1963, the couple shared their time between their apartment on Rue de Grenelle in Paris and their house in Villefranche-sur-Mer ( Alpes-Maritimes department ).

From the post-war period to Boumeester's death, there are around 40 exhibitions under her name. She exhibited regularly in the Parisian salons, illustrated many works, produced pictorial works and designed frescoes . In 1968 Christine Boumeester fell seriously ill and died in Paris in 1971.

literature

Ernst Probst: biographies of famous women painters, photographers, sculptors, designers, graphic artists, object artists ; Academic publication series, GRIN Verlag 2008, ISBN 978-3-638-93469-5

Web links

Goetz-Boumeester Museum in Villefranche-sur-Mer

Individual evidence

↑ Paris, Éditions de Beaune, Les nouveaux manifestes n ° 4, in-8 broché, 126 pp + 26 planches d'illustrations hors-texte, 1963.

personal data
SURNAME	Boumeester, Christine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Boumeester, Annie Christine (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch painter
DATE OF BIRTH	August 12, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH	Batavia, Indonesia (now Djakarta )
DATE OF DEATH	January 10, 1971
Place of death	Paris

[1] Paris, Éditions de Beaune, Les nouveaux manifestes n ° 4, in-8 broché, 126 pp + 26 planches d'illustrations hors-texte, 1963.