Lizzy Ansingh
{{Short description|Dutch painter (1875–1959)}}
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| birth_name = Maria Elisabeth Georgina Ansingh
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Maria Elisabeth Georgina Ansingh (13 March 1875 – 14 December 1959) was a Dutch painter.{{cite web |title=inghist, Ansingh |url=http://www.inghist.nl/Onderzoek/Projecten/Instituut/horizonreeks/Nieuws/Onderzoek/Projecten/BWN/lemmata/bwn3/ansingh |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120530134501/http://www.inghist.nl/Onderzoek/Projecten/Instituut/horizonreeks/Nieuws/Onderzoek/Projecten/BWN/lemmata/bwn3/ansingh |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-05-30 |accessdate=2009-01-25 }}
Ansingh belonged to a group of female post-impressionist painters influenced by the Amsterdam Impressionism movement called the Amsterdamse Joffers. She was also a member of the (still existing) Amsterdam art circles Arti et Amicitiae{{cite web|title=Arti et Amicitiae|url=http://www.arti.nl/arti_en.php|accessdate=February 8, 2009|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081220232526/http://www.arti.nl/arti_en.php|archivedate=December 20, 2008}} and Sint Lucas.{{cite web | url=http://beeldbank.amsterdam.nl/beeldbank?q_searchfield=Lizzy+Ansingh | title=Pictures of Ansingh at Arti et Amicitieaand Sint Lucas | publisher=Archive of the City of Amsterdam | work=Beeldbank | accessdate=2015-12-21}} She died in Amsterdam on 14 December 1959.
Biography
Lizzy Ansingh was born in Utrecht. She was the daughter of Edzard Willem Ansingh, a pharmacist, and Clara Theresia Schwartze. She was the granddaughter of Johann Georg Schwartze, also a painter, and a niece of the painter Thérèse Schwartze. It was her aunt Thérèse Schwartze who gave Lizzy her first lessons in drawing. Lizzy lived with her aunt for 16 years. She encouraged her niece to develop her artistic career and introduced her to numerous other painters, among others French impressionists and the famous Dutch painters George Hendrik Breitner, Piet Mondriaan and Simon Maris.{{cite web|title=Gorter, Paul "Maris en Mondriaan"|url=http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/_tir001199701_01/_tir001199701_01_0066.htm| editor=Tirade|volume=41|year=1997|accessdate=February 8, 2009}} Her younger sister, Thérèse, was also a painter.{{cite web |title=Peizel - Ansingh, Theresia (Thérèse) |url=https://www.artindex.nl/lexicon/default.asp?id=6&num=0857900087075010001791577001890950506441 |website=Beeldend BeNeLux Elektronisch (Lexicon) |access-date=17 February 2021}}
During the years 1894–1897 Lizzy studied at the Amsterdam Royal Academy of Visual Arts.{{cite web |title=Rijksacademie, History |url=http://www.rijksakademie.nl/organisatie/uk_or_geschiedenis.htm |accessdate=2009-01-25 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081220000248/http://www.rijksakademie.nl/organisatie/uk_or_geschiedenis.htm |archivedate=2008-12-20 }} Here she studied with the professors August Allebé, Nicolaas van der Waay and Carel Dake. Her work was also part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1928 Summer Olympics.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/921046 |title=Lizzy Ansingh |work=Olympedia |accessdate=27 July 2020}}
At the Academy a lasting friendship was born between a group of female painters, later called the Amsterdamse Joffers: Lizzy Ansingh, Marie van Regteren Altena, Suze Bisschop-Robertson,{{cite web|title=Suze Bisschop-Robertson (Den Haag 1855 - Den Haag 1922)|date=17 August 2017|url=http://www.thuisinbrabant.nl/geschiedenis/kunst/kunst-van-de-19de-eeuw/ca-1850---ca-1900/brabant-als-inspiratie/suze-bisschop-robertson|publisher=ThuisInBrabant.nl}} Coba Ritsema,{{cite web |title=inghist, Ritsema, Coba|url=http://www.inghist.nl/Onderzoek/Projecten/BWN/lemmata/bwn5/ritsema |accessdate=2009-01-25 }} Ans van den Berg, Jacoba Surie, Nelly Bodenheim, Betsy Westendorp-Osieck and Jo Bauer-Stumpff. The importance of the Amsterdamse Joffers lies primarily in functioning as role models for younger female painters in the Netherlands, especially during and after the 1970s.{{cite book| last=Glorie| first=Ingrid| title=Juffers en Joffers: een eerbewijs aan vrouwen in de schilderkunst| publisher=De Doelenpers| year= 2000|isbn=90-70655-27-6}}
Other works
Besides portrait painting, Ansingh gained celebrity for painting dolls,{{cite web|title=De poppenwereld van Lizzy Ansingh|url=http://www.arnhem.kunstencultuurkaart.nl/columns/clarien-van-harten/153-de-poppenwereld-van-lizzy-ansing-1875-1959.html|accessdate=2009-01-26|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120530134505/http://www.arnhem.kunstencultuurkaart.nl/columns/clarien-van-harten/153-de-poppenwereld-van-lizzy-ansing-1875-1959.html|archive-date=2012-05-30|url-status=dead}}{{cite web |title=Pictures of her dollpaintings|url=http://www.galeries.nl/mnkunstenaar.asp?artistnr=24861&vane=1&em=&meer=&sessionti=587857914|accessdate=2009-01-26}} in which she was also encouraged by her aunt Thérèse Schwartze. She purchased a circa 1740-1750 dollhouse in which she arranged her dolls for inspiration, as well as furnishing it with numerous other articles she collected. Her Amsterdam studio in the Herengracht, along with the dollhouse, was severely damaged on the night of 27 April 1943 when a British bomber was shot down, destroying the {{ill|Carlton Hotel (Amsterdam)|lt=Carlton Hotel|nl|Carlton Hotel (Amsterdam)}} and much of the {{Interlanguage link|Reguliersdwarsstraat|nl}} alongside her studio (the ensuing fire was the most devastating in Amsterdam since 1659 and is recorded in Anne Frank's diary). The dollhouse has since been restored and can be seen at the Museum Arnhem.{{cite web|title=Poppenhuis van Lizzy Ansingh |url=https://www.collectiegelderland.nl/mmkarnhem/object/53064496-c1b3-08b6-acc6-22d71e41bdff |website=collectiegelderland.nl |publisher=Collectie Gelderland |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402133958/http://www.collectiegelderland.nl/organisaties/mmkarnhem/voorwerp-0177-GM_11313 |archivedate=2 April 2015 |language=Dutch |url-status=live }}
She also wrote two books for children,{{cite web |title=Lizzy Ansingh, Tante Tor is jarig |url=http://www.dbnl.nl/titels/titel.php?id=ansi001tant01 |accessdate=2009-01-25 }} `n Vruchtenmandje (A little fruit basket), published in 1927, and Tante Tor is jarig (Aunt Tor has her birthday).{{cite web |title=DBNL auteur Lizzy Ansingh|url=http://www.dbnl.nl/auteurs/auteur.php?id=ansi001 |accessdate=2009-01-25 }} This booklet, published in 1950, was illustrated by Nelly Bodenheim.
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Further reading
- Venema, Adriaan, De Amsterdamse Joffers. Het Wereldvenster: 1977.
External links
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- {{in lang|nl}} [http://www.inghist.nl/Onderzoek/Projecten/BWN/lemmata/bwn3/ansingh Ansingh, Maria Elisabeth Georgina (1875-1959)] at the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands
- {{in lang|nl}} [https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/2020 Lizzy Ansingh] at the Netherlands Institute for Art History
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Category:Painters from Utrecht (city)
Category:Dutch children's writers
Category:Dutch women children's writers
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Category:20th-century Dutch women artists