Margaretha van Godewijk
Margaretha van Godewijk (born August 30 or 31, 1627 in Dordrecht ; † November 2, 1677 there ) was a Dutch poet, painter and engraver of the Golden Age .
Life
Van Godewijk was the daughter of Sara Pijpelaer († 1677) and Pieter Govertszoon van Godewijck (1593–1669), who was a teacher at a Latin school and caretaker of the city library. She and her sister Cornelia grew up in an affluent environment with cultural interests: Margaretha learned several languages early on, including Latin and Greek, and people wrote poetry. The biographical lexicon AJ van der Aas states in 1862 that she also learned Hebrew in order to read the original of the Old Testament.
Margarethe van Godewijk wrote numerous poems, the majority of which have come down to us in two handwritten volumes. The volume Poëmata consists of around twenty poems in Latin, the volume Gedichten van Margareta van Godewyck, met xxviii door haar geschilderde zinnebeelden contains 313 pages of religious texts, occasional poems as well as emblems and letters, mostly in Dutch, but also in French or Latin. The texts remained unpublished for unknown reasons - possibly they did not meet their own claims. At AJ van der Aa, the foreign-language texts are highly praised, but her mother-tongue poems are sometimes described as a little "swollen".
According to Arnold Houbraken (1653), she also mastered painting, which she learned from Nicolaes Maes , as well as embroidery and glass engraving.
Margarete von Godewijck remained unmarried. After the death of her father, she made a will in favor of her mother; after her death in 1677 - shortly before her own death - she bequeathed an estate of "art and books" as well as paper drawings and prints to various relatives and friends.
Margaretha van Godewijk died in Dordrecht in November 1677. In a briefly published description of the city of Dordrecht , it was given a prominent place in the city's cultural life; she was praised among the many men the city could be proud of for her poetry, embroidery, painting, drawings and engravings, singing and harpsichord playing.
The whereabouts of her manuscripts were unknown for a long time, until they reappeared at an auction in Paris in 1830 and were bought by an art dealer in Dordrecht. They have been in the Dordrecht Archives since 1870, today Regionaal Archief Dordrecht .
Web links
- Cees Esseboom: Margaretha van Godewijck. In: regionaalarchiefdordrecht.nl. August 2016, accessed February 10, 2020 (Dutch).
Individual evidence
- ↑ DBNL: Margareta van Godewijck dbnl. Retrieved February 9, 2020 (Dutch).
- ↑ Ontdek schilder, glass engraver, tekenaar Margaretha van Godewijk. Retrieved February 9, 2020 (Dutch).
- ↑ Margareta van Godewijckl. In: dbnl.org. Retrieved February 9, 2020 (Dutch).
- ↑ a b c d e Annelies de Jeu: Godewijck, Margaretha van. In: Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon van Nederland. September 17, 2019, accessed February 9, 2020 (Dutch).
- ↑ a b Margaretha van Godewijck . In: AJ van der Aa (Ed.): Biographisch woordenboek der Nederlanden . Deel 7. Haarlem 1862, p. 233–234 ( digitized via dbnl.org ).
- ↑ Margarita Godewyk . In: Arnold Houbraken (ed.): De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (3 delen) . s'Gravenhage 1753, p. 317-318 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Godewijk, Margaretha van |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch poet, painter and engraver of the Golden Age |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 30, 1627 or August 31, 1627 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dordrecht |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 2, 1677 |
| Place of death | Dordrecht |