Martin Monnickendam

Studio photo around 1905

Martin Monnickendam , also Martijn Monnickendam (born February 25, 1874 in Amsterdam , † January 4, 1943 ibid) was a Dutch painter and draftsman.

Life

His Jewish parents were Nathan Meijer Monnickendam and Roosje Rippe. He was trained from 1891 to 1893 at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten and was a student at the Felix Meritis drawing school, both in Amsterdam. He practiced painting, watercolor , etching , drawing and lithography . His subjects were often the city of Amsterdam or Jewish subjects, but he also dealt with group representations, portraits and still lifes .

Monnickendam became a member of the artists 'association Arti et Amicitiae in 1904 , of the painters' guild of Sint Lukas in 1905 and of De Onafhankelijken in 1916 . In 1906 Monnickendam married Alice Mouzin, then director of the industrial school for Vrouwelijke Jeugd. The marriage had two children: Mona Rosa, called Roos ( Rose ) in 1908 and Ruth in 1911. The family lived on Grensstraat and Stadhouderskade 92 in Amsterdam.

Monnickendam traveled abroad several times. After a two-year stay in Paris (1895/96), where he shared his studio with Pieter Dupont and studied at the École des Arts et Métiers , he traveled to Germany in 1922/23, to Normandy and Brittany in 1926 and between 1929 and 1938 a total of five times to Italy.

In 1924 an honorary exhibition was held at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in connection with his fiftieth birthday. On his sixtieth birthday in 1934, his friend and art dealer Bernard Houthakker organized an exhibition. In 1934 he was awarded the Orden Officier in de Orde van Oranje-Nassau .

Shortly before he was to be deported to a concentration camp in 1943 , he died of pneumonia .

Exhibitions (selection)

Many exhibitions of his art took place during Monnickendam's lifetime, at which he won prizes:

• 1909 gold medal in Munich for the painting "École des Arts et Métiers"
• 1912 Gold Medal "Vierjaarlijkse in Amsterdam" for the painting "Entr'acte"
• 1913 gold medal, awarded by Queen Wilhelmina for the painting Salomé
• 1915 silver medal to celebrate the opening of the Panama Canal in San Francisco
• 1917 Solo exhibition at the Houthakker art dealer in Haarlem
• 1937 gold medal at the world exhibition in Paris

In 2009 the exhibition Martin Monnickendams Amsterdam took place in the Amsterdam City Archives. The subject of all drawings were Amsterdam vedute . The oeuvre catalog and monograph were presented with the exhibition .

In 2019 the exhibition Martin Monnickendam - Amsterdam Chronicler in Light and Color took place in the Rothenburg Museum in Rothenburg ob der Tauber . The museum received 46 of his drawings with views of Rothenburg as a gift from the foundation.

Foundation, endowment

The Foundation of the Friends of the Painter Martin Monnickendam , based in Amsterdam, manages the painter's legacy and makes his work accessible to a wider public. In 1999 and 2009, the Foundation donated a large number of works to a number of museum institutions in Amsterdam.

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Works by Martin Monnickendam can be found in the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam, the Teylers Museum in Haarlem, the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, the Stadsarchief Amsterdam, the Stedelijk Museum Den Haag, the Amsterdam Museum and the RothenburgMuseum in Rothenburg ob der Tauber.

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  The Schauburgloge, oil on canvas, 1912

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  The Orphan Boys, oil on canvas, 1924

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  Reception of the Lord Mayor of London in the Citizens' Hall of the Damm Palace in Amsterdam, oil on canvas, 1929

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  Rothenburg town hall odT, pastel and watercolor, 1922

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  Rothenburg odT from the south ("Das kleine Rothenburg"), oil on canvas, 1923

literature

• Monnickendam, Martin . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931, p. 69 .
• Monnickendam, Martin . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 414 .
• RJC van Helden: Catalogus Martin Monnickendam 1874–1943 . Waanders, Zwolle 2009, ISBN 978-90-400-8613-7 .
• RJC van Helden / Hellmuth Möhring: Martin Monnickendam - Amsterdam chronicler in light and color . Catalog for the special exhibition in the RothenburgMuseum, Rothenburg ob der Tauber 2019.

Web links

Commons : Martin Monnickendam  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Short biography on martinmonnickendam.nl
• Martin Monnickendam. Biographical data and works in the Netherlands Institute for Art History (Dutch)

Remarks

1. ↑ page on the exhibition .