Jacoba van Heemskerck

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Jacoba van Heemskerck: Landschap , circa 1913 ( Rijksmuseum Twenthe )
Jacoba van Heemskerck: signature, image detail, circa 1920 (Rijksmuseum Twenthe)

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

Life

Van Heemskerck comes from a noble Dutch family, her father Jacob Eduard was a naval officer who also painted in his free time and introduced Jacoba, the youngest of his six children, to painting. From 1897 to 1901 she attended the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten in The Hague. Further teachers were Ferdinand Hart Nibbrig in the Netherlands and Eugène Carrière in Paris , where she came into contact with modern art . In the Domburger Sommerfrische she received support from Jan Toorop from 1908 , met Piet Mondriaan and Lodewijk Schelfhoutand gained a lasting friendship with Marie Tak van Poortvliet (1871–1936), who now worked as her patron and in whose Domburg house and studio she temporarily lived.

She took up suggestions from Cubism and was invited by Herwarth Walden to the First German Autumn Salon in Berlin in 1913 , where she was able to show four pictures. The artists of the Blauer Reiter exhibiting there , Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc , influenced their way into abstraction . After 1914 she also made lead glazing . With Walden, who became her agent and also offered her space in his magazine Der Sturm , she conducted regular correspondence in the following years. She was already present with 21 works at the 23rd Sturm exhibition, and in autumn 1914 she had a solo exhibition in Hamburg.

After her untimely death, Walden organized a retrospective in Berlin and dedicated the seventh volume of the Sturm picture books to it.

Literature / exhibitions

  • AH Huussen jr., JFA van Paaschen-Louwerse: Jacoba van Heemskerck, schilderes uit roeping , Waanders, 2005
  • Herbert Henkels: Jacoba van Heemskerck, 1876-1923: an expressionist artist , exhibition Berlin (Haus am Waldsee), Stuttgart (Württembergischer Kunstverein), Bonn (Rheinisches Landesmuseum), Saarbrücken (Saarland Museum), Erlangen (Städt. Galerie) from the summer 1983 to February 1984.
  • Helmut Geisert, Elisabeth Moortgat (Red.): Walls made of colored glass. The archive of the United Workshops for Mosaic and Glass Painting Puhl & Wagner, Gottfried Heinersdorff . Berlinische Galerie, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-927873-01-2 (catalog for the exhibition from December 8, 1989– January 21, 1990 in the Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin; Contemporary Museum . No. 9).
  • J. Chapel: Heemskerck van Beest, Jacoba . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 71, de Gruyter, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-023176-2 , p. 29.
  • Karla Bilang: Modernism and Anthroposophy: Jacoba van Heemskerck , in: Karla Bilang: Women in the "STURM". Modern artists . AvivA-Verlag, Berlin 2013, pp. 69–80
  • Karla Bilang: Jacoba van Heemskerck , in: Britta Jürgs (ed.): Like a Nile bride thrown into the waves. Portraits of expressionist artists and writers , AvivA-Verlag, Berlin 1998, pp. 93–113
  • Lea Schleiffenbaum: Jacoba van Heemskerck , in: Ingrid Pfeiffer, Max Hollein (Hrsg.): Sturm-Frauen: Artists of the avant-garde in Berlin 1910-1932 . Cologne: Wienand, 2015, ISBN 978-3-86832-277-4 , pp. 138–150

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ferdinand Hart Nibbrig, see Dutch Wikipedia nl: Ferdinand Hart Nibbrig
personal data
SURNAME Heemskerck, Jacoba van
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heemskerck van Beest, Jacoba
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH The hague
DATE OF DEATH August 3, 1923
Place of death Domburg