Suze Robertson

Portrait photo of Suze Robertson (before 1900)

Susanne (Suze) Bisschop-Robertson (born December 17, 1855 in The Hague , † October 18, 1922 in The Hague) was a Dutch painter. She belonged to a group of artists known as the Amsterdamse Joffers .

life and work

Suze Robertson was born into a family of merchants. Her mother died when she was two years old and was subsequently raised by her aunt and uncle. Her talent for drawing was shown early on, in 1874 she began her studies at the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten , where she was a student of Jan Philip Koelman . There she won one bronze and two silver medals. In 1876 she took drawing lessons at the Technical University of Delft .

Until 1882 she taught girls in drawing lessons in Rotterdam, and she also took lessons on Sundays from Petrus van der Velden in The Hague. She then began her career as an artist. Her work of simple people in the interiors of farms as well as rough scenes of rural life are reminiscent of Vincent van Gogh's early “ The Potato Eaters ”.

While she was in Rotterdam, Suze Robertson caused a minor scandal by being the first woman to insist on being admitted to the nude drawing class. On June 30, 1892, she married the painter Richard Bisschop in Den Bosch . Their daughter Sara was born two years later. Robertson became a member of Pulchri Studios and Arti et Amicitiae . In the next few years she exhibited widely and won several medals, including one in bronze at the Paris World Exhibition in 1900 . In 1907 her work was shown at the opening of the new branch of Laren's art trade in Amsterdam, where she sold works with a total value of 10,000 guilders, something of a record at the time. She died in The Hague and was buried there in the Oud Eik en Duinen cemetery.

Works

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  The Card Reader , 1883, oil paint on canvas, Stedelijk Museum Breda

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  Still Life , 1892, oil paint on canvas, Rijksmuseum

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  Portrait of a Young Woman , 1895–98; Oil paint on canvas, Rijksmuseum

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  Antique stall , c. 1900, oil paint on canvas, Centraal Museum , Utrecht

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  Corner of the Artists Studio , before 1905, watercolor on paper, Groninger Museum

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  The Fisher's gate at Harderwijk , 1908-10, oil paint on canvas, Stedelijk Museum

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  Mother and child , c. 1910s, oil paint on canvas, private collection

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  Courtyard together with a Work by Johan Buning , before 1922, oil paint on wood, private collection

Individual evidence

1. ↑ djr: Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon van Nederland. October 4, 2018, accessed May 27, 2019 (Dutch). 
2. ↑ Discover watercolorist, artist's wife, pastelist Suze Robertson. Accessed May 27, 2019 . 

Web links

Commons : Suze Robertson  - Collection of images, videos and audio files