Gisèle van Waterschoot van der Gracht
Gisèle van Waterschoot van der Gracht , after her marriage Gisèle d'Ailly van Waterschoot van der Gracht (born September 11, 1912 in The Hague ; † May 28, 2013 in Amsterdam ), was a Dutch artist.
Life
Gisèle van Waterschoot van der Gracht was the daughter of the Dutch geologist and lawyer Willem van Waterschoot van der Gracht and the Austrian Josephine Freiin von Hammer-Purgstall (1881–1955). The family went to the United States in 1915, where they stayed until 1931. After their return the family lived first in Austria on an estate and then in the Kasteel of Wijlre in the Netherlands in the province of Limburg . In Paris, Gisèle van Waterschoot van der Gracht studied the two techniques of copperplate engraving and etching . From 1936 to the end of 1939 she worked for the glass painter Joep Nicholas in Roermond .
Gisèle van Waterschoot van der Gracht moved to Bergen with her family in 1940 . Here she met the two German immigrants Wolfgang Cordan and Wolfgang Frommel in 1941 in the house of the poet and writer Adriaan Roland Holst . In the same year she was able to move into an apartment at 401 Herengracht in Amsterdam . A year later Frommel and Friedrich W. Buri moved into this apartment. Together they hid a group of mostly Jewish youths of German and Dutch nationality. The contribution of Gisèle van Waterschoot van der Gracht to the survival of the hidden people during the German occupation and persecution was active and essential. In 1942 she became acquainted with Max Beckmann , with whom she was able to maintain contact even after his emigration to the USA.
The German-language publisher Castrum Peregrini emerged from the group of survivors in 1951 . Since 1957, Gisèle van Waterschoot van der Gracht was the patron of the Castrum Peregrini Foundation with their joint headquarters at Herengracht 401, which they bought in 1958.
In 1959 Gisèle van Waterschoot married van der Gracht and Arnold Jan d'Ailly (1902–1967), former mayor of Amsterdam. Due to the marriage, her full name was: Gisèle d'Ailly van Waterschoot van der Gracht. The couple renovated the former monastery of Agios Ioannis on the Greek island of Paros . After the death of her husband, the widow moved here every year. In 1982 she finally gave up the neighborhood and has lived in Amsterdam ever since.
Honor
Her name has been recorded in the Yad Vashem Memorial in the Garden of the Righteous Among the Nations since 1998 . The names of non-Jewish rescuers have been inscribed in the garden since 1996. This is also where the award ceremonies for these people are held.
source
- Castrum Peregrini: Obituary
- Biography on the website of the Wilhelm Fraenger Society
literature
in order of appearance
- Claus Victor Bock: In hiding among friends. A report. Amsterdam 1942-1945 . Castrum-Peregrini-Presse, Amsterdam 1985 and other editions, ISBN 90-6034-053-1 .
- Gisèle and her friends. Portraits of the painter Gisèle d'Ailly van Waterschoot van der Gracht alternating with poems dedicated to her . Castrum Peregrini Press, Amsterdam 2000.
- Friedrich W. Buri: I gave you the torch in leaps and bounds. WF a reminder report. Edited and with an afterword by Stephan C. Bischoff, Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Berlin, 2009, ISBN 978-3-86650-068-6 .
- Manuel Goldschmidt, Claus Victor Bock: "... I miss you very much". The friendship of two young exiles. The correspondence between Manuel Goldschmidt and Claus Victor Bock (1945–1951) , Quintus Verlag 2017 (publisher: Leo van Santen).
- Annette Jacoba Mooij: De eeuw van Gisèle. Myths in werkelijkheid van een kunstenares . De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam 2018, ISBN 978-94-0311850-5 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Gisèle van Waterschoot van der Gracht in the catalog of the German National Library
- Het Steentje van Gisèle Film on the Castrum Peregrini website(Dutch)
- Audio portrait in: Erlebte Geschichte , WDR 5 on December 24, 2009
- Anaïs Van Ertvelde: The Many Manifestations of Castrum Peregrini. Historiography, heritage and the possibility of representing the! Past. Thesis to obtain a “Master in Comparative Women's Studies in Culture and Politics”, Utrecht University , 2011–2012. By the same author: Gender and sexuality in a history of World War II resistance: the case of Castrum Peregrini , Historica, number 3, 2015.
- Gisèle van Waterschoot van der Gracht on freundevonfreunden.com
- Kunstmecenas d'Ailly overleden (obituary, Dutch)
Individual evidence
- ↑ This time of life and survival in the Herengracht 401 is described in detail by Friedrich W. Buri and Claus Victor Bock.
- ↑ Gisèle van Waterschoot van der Gracht on the website of Yad Vashem (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Waterschoot van der Gracht, Gisèle van |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch painter and publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 11, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | The hague |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 28, 2013 |
| Place of death | Amsterdam |