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Amsterdam Joffers

During the first years of the last century a group of young women students at the Amsterdam Rijksacademy started painting portraits, genre-paintings and still lifes in the same, late-impressionistic style. Their names were Lizzy Ansingh, Marie van Regteren Altena, Jo Bauer-Stumpff, Ans van den Berg, Nelly Bodenheim, Coba Ritsema, Jacoba Surie and Betsy Westendorp-Osieck. They were all high class ladies and focused on a durable and upright way of painting. They stayed friends and painted and exhibited together until the late 1960’s. Their painting style did not correspond with any international painting style but reminded at most of work from Painters of the Eighties like G.H. Breitner and Floris Verster. Ans van den Berg was known for her flower paintings but the Amsterdam Joffer Lizzy Ansingh gained most fame in Holland and nationwide; she was also referred to as the ‘doll painter’.

A M.E.G. (Lizzy) Ansingh 1875-1959 Doll in a blue dress and a black cat B A.C. (Ans) van den Berg 1873-1942 White and red azalea A.C. (Ans) van den Berg 1873-1942 Stil life with hat, fan and ginger jar with violets S J. (Coba) Surie 1879 - 1970 Still life with fruits, preserving-jars and a spoon J. (Coba) Surie 1879 - 1970 Still life with onions, a glass jug and a plate with herrings W J.E. (Betsy) Westendorp - Osieck 1880 - 1908 Still life of glass paint-pots

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