Wilhelmina van Idsinga

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Wilhelmina Geertruida van Idsinga (self-portrait)
Wilhelmina Geertruida van Idsinga (self-portrait)

Wilhelmina Geertruida van Idsinga (born November 10, 1788 in Leeuwarden ; † May 9, 1819 ibid.) Was a Dutch draftsman and painter.

life and work

Wilhelmina van Idsinga was born as the only child of Tjebbina Heimans and Johan van Idsinga, a secretary of the Staten van Friesland , in a wealthy environment. Her mother died when she was six years old, and she remained without siblings even after her father remarried. She received artistic training at an early age from the painters CJ Baar van Slangenburgh and Willem Bartel van der Kooi .

Wilhelmina van Idsinga remained unmarried and between 1814 and 1818 exhibited her work - drawings and pastel paintings - in The Hague and Amsterdam . There were contemporary reports about her promising talent as well as lexical ones in the art lexicon Geschiedenis der Vaderlandsche Schilderkunst, which appeared decades later - it states that she made “free and powerful drawings from paintings” and portraits “from life”.

  • Portrait van een meisje met hoed

    Portrait van een meisje met hoed

  • Jacobus Scheltema

    Jacobus Scheltema

Only a few years later, at the age of 30, Wilhelmina van Idsinga died of a breast disease. Her parents bequeathed the self-portrait she painted to an orphanage in Leeuwarden, where it, like another portrait, is to this day.

Web links

Commons : Wilhelmina Geertruida van Idsinga  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ulrich Thieme, Felix Becker: Idsinga, Wilhelmina Geertruida van . In: General encyclopedia of visual artists from antiquity to the present over 250,000 biographies on one CD . I-J. Seemann, Leipzig 2008, ISBN 978-3-86502-177-9 , pp. 166 .
  2. ↑ a b c Anna de Haas: Idsinga, Willemina Geertruida van . In: Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon van Nederland . January 13, 2014 ( online via resources.huygens.knaw.nl ).
  3. ↑ Wilhelmina Geertruida van Idsinga . In: Roeland van Eynden, Adriaan van der Willigen (ed.): Geschiedenis der Vaderlandsche Schilderkunst . tape III , 1820, p. 285 ( digitized via resources.huygens.knaw.nl ).
  4. ↑ Wilhelmina Geertruida van Idsinga. In: rkd.nl. RKD - Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis, accessed on February 29, 2020 (Dutch).

annotation

  1. ↑ = respiratory disease, e.g. B. pneumonia or tuberculosis
personal data
SURNAME Idsinga, Wilhelmina van
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Idsinga, Wilhelmina Geertruida van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch draftsman and painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1788
PLACE OF BIRTH Leeuwarden
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 1819
Place of death Leeuwarden