J.H. Derkinderen-Besier
{{short description|Dutch textile artist, fashion historian}}
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| name = Johanna Henriette Derkinderen-Besier
| image = Zelfportret van Johanna Besier (1884).jpg
| caption = Self portrait, 1884
| othername =
| birth_name = Johanna Henriette Besier
| birth_date = 27 September 1865
| birth_place = Utrecht
| death_date = 7 September 1944
| death_place = Amsterdam
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| nationality = Dutch
| alma_mater =
| occupation = Fashion historian, needle artist
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| known_for =
| spouse = Antoon Derkinderen
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Johanna Henriette Derkinderen-Besier (Utrecht, 27 September 1865 – Amsterdam, 7 September 1944) was a Dutch needle artist, fashion historian and publicist who was known professionally under the name J. H. Derkinderen-Besier.
Life and work
Derkinderen-Besier was a member of the patrician family of Besier and a daughter of August Adriaan Henry Besier (1827–1905), a civil servant at the municipal clerk of Utrecht, and Albertina van Ewijck (1836–1898), a member of the Van Ewijck family. She married the artist Prof. Antoon Johannes Derkinderen (1859–1925) in 1894, but the couple did not have children.{{Cite web |title=Ontdek textielkunstenaar, tekenaar, etser Johanna Henriëtte Besier |url=https://rkd.nl/nl/explore/artists/7725 |access-date=2022-11-22 |website=rkd.nl |language=nl}}{{Cite web |date=2013 |title=Derkinderen, Antonius Johannes (1859-1925) |url=https://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/bwn1880-2000/lemmata/bwn4/derkind |access-date=2022-11-22}}
Derkinderen-Besier was educated at The Hague Academy of Visual Arts, the Amsterdam Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten and the Rijksschool voor Kunstnijverheid Amsterdam. She became known as a needle artist and as leader of the costume department of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.{{Cite web |title=Collectie Nederland: Musea, Monumenten en Archeologie |url=https://data.collectienederland.nl/page/aggregation/rijksakademie/0048 |access-date=2022-11-22 |website=data.collectienederland.nl}}
She donated many of Derkinderen's [https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=Derkinderen-Besier&title=Special:MediaSearch&go=Go&type=image sketches and artworks] to the Rijksmuseum's collections.
She published several books about fashion in the 16th and 17th centuries, some of which remain "seminal works to greater or lesser extents."{{Cite book |last=Watteeuw |first=Bert |url=https://brill.com/display/book/edcoll/9789004253551/B9789004253551_011.xml |title=Framing the Face. Patterns of Presentation and Representation in Early Modern Dress and Portraiture |date=2013-01-01 |publisher=Brill |isbn=978-90-04-25355-1 |pages=246 |language=en}} In 1927 she published her husband's childhood memories, with an introduction that she wrote. The text featured a portrait of Derkinderen drawn by one of his students, the artist Debora Duyvis.
Selected bibliography
- The clothing of our ancestors: 1700-1900. The costume department in the Netherlands Museum for History and Art in Amsterdam. Amsterdam, 1926.
- [Introduction to:] Antoon der Kinder, The childhood of Antoon der Kinder described by himself in 1892. Bussum, 1927.
- Fashion metamorphoses. The Clothing of Our Ancestors in the Sixteenth Century. Amsterdam, 1933.
- Games of fashion. The Clothing of Our Ancestors in the Seventeenth Century. Amsterdam, 1950.
References
External sources
- Vrouwen in de vormgeving in Nederland 1880-1940 (Women in design in the Netherlands 1880-1940) (in Dutch) [https://books.google.com/books?id=kf_A8YENhRQC&dq=Derkinderen-Besier&pg=PA15]
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Category:People from Utrecht (city)
Category:Dutch women art historians