Adya van Rees-Dutilh
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| other_names = Adrienne van Rees-Dutilh
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1876|6|7|df=y}}
| birth_place = Rotterdam, Netherlands
| death_date = {{death date and age|1959|8|11|1876|6|7|df=y}}
| death_place = Utrecht, Netherlands
| nationality = Dutch
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| field = Painting, textile arts
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| spouse = {{marriage|Otto van Rees|1909|1957|end= died in}}
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Adrienne (Adya) van Rees-Dutilh (7 June 1876 – 11 August 1959) was a Dutch textile artist, painter and graphic artist. She was part of the Dada movement in Zürich and was one of the early signatories of the first Berlin Dada manifesto.
Biography
Rees-Dutilh née Dutilh was born on 7 June 1876 in Rotterdam, Netherlands.{{cite web |title=Adya van Rees · Dada & Surrealism |url=https://dada.lib.uiowa.edu/adya-van-rees |website=International Dada Archive |publisher=University of Iowa |accessdate=6 November 2020}} She studied drawing with Barbara Elisabeth van Houten in The Hague and went on to study with Ernest Blanc-Garin at his workshop in Brussels. In 1909 she married fellow artist Otto van Rees with whom she had three children.{{cite web |title=Dutilh, Adriana Catharina (1876-1959) |url=http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/vrouwenlexicon/lemmata/data/dutihl |website=Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon van Nederland |accessdate=6 November 2020 |language=Dutch |date=17 September 2019}} The couple lived the Montmartre area of Paris along with a group of artist known as Bateau-Lavoir.{{cite web |title=Adya van Rees |url=https://awarewomenartists.com/en/artiste/adya-van-rees/ |website=AWARE Women artists / Femmes artistes |accessdate=6 November 2020}} Around this time Rees-Dutilh began focusing on creating abstract tapestries and embroidery.{{cite web |title=Adya van Rees - Dutilh |url=https://www.stedelijkmuseumschiedam.nl/tentoonstelling/adya-van-rees-dutilh/ |website=Stedelijk Museum Schiedam |accessdate=6 November 2020 |language=nl |archive-date=20 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211020111235/https://www.stedelijkmuseumschiedam.nl/tentoonstelling/adya-van-rees-dutilh/ |url-status=dead}}
Rees-Dutilh converted to Catholicism in 1914 and religion became a subject of her later art.
She moved to Switzerland during World War I. In November 1915 she and Otto participated in a Dada group exhibition at the Galerie Tanner in Zürich. Adya exhibited her embroidery.{{cite web |title=Adya van Rees - Dutilh |url=https://ottovanrees.com/adya/ |website=Otto van Rees |accessdate=6 November 2020 |language=nl-NL}} In 1918 she signed the Berlin Dada manifesto.
Rees-Dutilh moved to Paris and became involved with the art group Cercle et Carré (Circle and Square). By World War II Rees-Dutilh was separated, but not divorced from Otto. She spent the war years in Switzerland where she concentrated on embroidering historic and religious subjects. She returned to the Netherlands in 1949. She lived with Otto in Utrecht until his death in 1957. Her eyesight had deteriorated and she was unable to work.
Rees-Dutilh died on 11 October 1959 in Utrecht.{{cite web |title=Adya van Rees-Dutilh |url=https://rkd.nl/nl/explore/artists/65943 |website=RKD |accessdate=6 November 2020 |language=nl}}
References
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External links
- [https://rkd.nl/en/explore/images/187325 Example of Rees-Dutilh's embroidery] on RKD
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