Evert Rinsema

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Theo van Doesburg : Portrait of Evert Rinsema. around 1915, pastel chalk on paper, 15.5 × 11.5 cm, Fries Museum , Leeuwarden

Evert Rinsema ( August 28, 1880 in Gorredijk - July 4, 1958 in Heerenveen ) was a Dutch poet who - especially in its beginnings - was close to the De Stijl avant-garde movement .

Rinsema was a brother of the visual artist Thijs Rinsema (1877–1947) and lived in Drachten , Friesland . Like his father, he was a shoemaker and in his free time he read the works and biographies of important philosophers , such as Heraclitus and Laozi, intensively . Rinsema's own texts usually take the form of long poems and aphorisms . During the mobilization (the Netherlands were neutral during World War I ), Rinsema was stationed near the town of Alphen in North Brabant from 1914 to 1916 , where he made friends with the writer and visual artist Theo van Doesburg . Van Doesburg was very impressed by Rinsema, as he was able to find often abstract and difficult to fathom philosophical views (" denkbeelden ") in everyday life. Van Doesburg later visited him regularly in Drachten. It was also van Doesburg who published Rinsema's first volume of poems, Verzamelde volzinnen ( Collected Sentences ) in 1920 as a de Stijl publication . Kurt Schwitters was to read from this work in April 1923 at his Dada Soiree in Drachten. The local Dragtster Courant reports that this was the only serious moment of an otherwise hilarious evening.

At the beginning of the thirties, Rinsema moved to Assen , where he had a modernist- style house built on Kanaal 175 based on plans by the architect J.FA Göbel (1900–1967). After the Second World War , Rinsema returned to Drachten.

Publications

  • Verzamelde volzinnen van Evert Rinsema. De Stijl, Leiden 1920.
  • Wat ik thought. Assen 1947.
  • The mens is nature hoekig. Van der Wal, Bergen 1980.
  • Wat achterbleef. Volzinnen. Avalon Pers, Woubrugge 1982.
  • Verwaaide bloemen. Poems en thought. Streekmuseum "It Bleekerhûs", Drachten [1983].
  • Woorden op laag-water. [Self-published], Drachten 1984.
  • Geeft uw bloemen as u bloemen lifts, leidelijk en langzaam water ... [Avalon Pers, Woubrugge 1995].
  • Thijs Rinsema (Ed.): Denkbeelden van Evert Rinsema. [Museum Dr8888], Drachten 2011, ISBN 9789077169179 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thijs Rinsema (grandson): Thijs | Evert Rinsema, Eigenzinnig en veelzijdig. Drachten 2011, ISBN 9789077169001
  2. ↑ Holland Dada en de international context. Museum DR8888 , Bornmeer 2016, ISBN 9789056153748 , p. 151
  3. ↑ HR Heite (Ed.): Dada in Drachten. In: Literair tydskrift. Number 9/10, November 1971, p. 26.

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personal data
SURNAME Rinsema, Evert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch poet
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Gorredijk
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 1958
Place of death Heerenveen