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Ans (given Name)
Ans is a Dutch feminine given name, a short form of either Anna or Johanna. People with the name include: * Ans van den Berg (1873–1942), Dutch painter * Ans Bouwmeester (fl. 1980s), Dutch Paralympic athlete * Ans Dekker (born 1955), Dutch artistic gymnast *Ans van Dijk (1905–1948), Dutch-Jewish collaborator with Nazi Germany * Ans Dresden-Polak (1906–1943), Dutch-Jewish gymnast and holocaust victim *Ans van Gerwen (born 1951), Dutch artistic gymnast * Ans Gravesteijn (born 1951), Dutch rower *Ans van Kemenade (born 1954), Dutch professor of English linguistics * Ans Koning (1922–2006), Dutch javelin thrower * Ans Luttge-Deetman (1867-1952), Dutch painter * Ans Markus (born 1947), Dutch painter * Ans Panhorst-Niesink (1918–2010), Dutch discus thrower and shot putter *Ans Schut (born 1944), Dutch speed skater * Ans Timmermans (1919–1958), Dutch swimmer *Ans Westra Anna Jacoba Westra (born 28 April 1936), generally known as Ans Westra, is a self-taught New Zealand photo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dutch Language
Dutch ( ) is a West Germanic language spoken by about 25 million people as a first language and 5 million as a second language. It is the third most widely spoken Germanic language, after its close relatives German and English. ''Afrikaans'' is a separate but somewhat mutually intelligible daughter languageAfrikaans is a daughter language of Dutch; see , , , , , . Afrikaans was historically called Cape Dutch; see , , , , , . Afrikaans is rooted in 17th-century dialects of Dutch; see , , , . Afrikaans is variously described as a creole, a partially creolised language, or a deviant variety of Dutch; see . spoken, to some degree, by at least 16 million people, mainly in South Africa and Namibia, evolving from the Cape Dutch dialects of Southern Africa. The dialects used in Belgium (including Flemish) and in Suriname, meanwhile, are all guided by the Dutch Language Union. In Europe, most of the population of the Netherlands (where it is the only official language spoken country ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ans Koning
Johanna "Ans" Koning (27 March 1923 – 22 July 2006) was a Dutch javelin thrower. She competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics and finished in 6th place. Two years earlier she won a bronze medal at the 1946 European Athletics Championships The 3rd European Athletics Championships were held from 22 August to 25 August 1946 in the Bislett Stadion in Oslo, Norway. For the first time it was a combined event for men and women, and for the first time a city in Scandinavia hosted the champ .... References 1923 births 2006 deaths Sportspeople from The Hague Dutch female javelin throwers Olympic athletes for the Netherlands Athletes (track and field) at the 1948 Summer Olympics European Athletics Championships medalists 20th-century Dutch women {{Netherlands-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ans Woud
Sietske de Haan (24 November 1889 – 31 October 1948), better known by her pen name Cissy van Marxveldt, was a Dutch writer of children's books. She is best known for her series of '' Joop ter Heul'' novels. Biography Sietske de Haan was born on 24 November 1889 in Oranjewoud, a village in the northern province of Friesland in the Netherlands. She was the daughter of IJnze de Haan, a headmaster and history teacher, and Froukje de Groot. In 1914, she met Leon Beek, a Jewish reserve infantry officer who became a department store manager. De Haan and Beek married on 2 February 1916 and had two sons, Ynze and Leo. During the German occupation of the Netherlands, Beek was a member of the Dutch resistance. After a failed attempt to escape from the Westerbork transit camp he was executed in 1944 in Overveen. It was 1946 before De Haan learned of his fate. She died in Bussum on 31 October 1948. Career in writing De Haan embarked on her literary career by writing articles and stori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ans Wortel
Ans (Anna Maria) Wortel (18 October 1929, in Alkmaar, Netherlands4 December 1996, in Hilvarenbeek, Netherlands) was a Dutch painter, poet and writer. She made gouaches and oil paintings, aquarelles, drawings, collages, lithographs, etchings, sculptures and glass sculptures. She was an autodidact and won the first prize at the biennale of Paris in 1963. She was one of the leading female artists of postwar Dutch modern art. There are some 50 books with contributions from or about Wortel. Painting style Wortel's work is strongly autobiographical. Her experiences as a girl, woman, mother and as an artist were the main source of her inspiration. Common themes are human emotions, love, relationships, mother/child relations and social criticism. Until the late 1950s there was a search for a personal style. Artwork from that time varies and shows characteristics of different artists, such as Katsushika Hokusai, Willem de Kooning, Marc Chagall, Pablo Picasso, Wifredo Lam and Karel App ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ans Westra
Anna Jacoba Westra (born 28 April 1936), generally known as Ans Westra, is a self-taught New Zealand photographer, with an interest in Māori. Her prominence as an artist and author was most amplified by her 1964 piece ''Washday at the Pa''. Early life She was born Anna Jacoba Westra in 1936 in Leiden, Netherlands, the only child of Pieter Hein Westra and Hendrika Christina van Doorn.Handboek: Ans Westra Photographs, 2004, published by Blair Wakefield Exhibitions In 1953, Westra moved to Rotterdam and studied at the Industrieschool voor Meisjes, graduating in 1957 with a Diploma in Arts and Craft teaching, specialising in artistic needlework. The same year, she left the Netherlands for New Zealand, and she became a naturalised New Zealand citizen in 1963. Career Initial interest in photography Westra was exposed to photography as a teenager by her stepfather. A visit in 1956 to the international exhibition ''The Family of Man'' in Amsterdam, together with a book by Joan van de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ans Timmermans
Anna Petronella "Ans or Annie" Timmermans (10 April 1919 – 21 August 1958) was a Dutch swimmer who won a gold medal in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay at the 1934 European Championships. Two years later she competed in the 400 m freestyle at the 1936 Olympics, but failed to reach the final. References 1919 births 1958 deaths Dutch female freestyle swimmers Olympic swimmers for the Netherlands Swimmers at the 1936 Summer Olympics Swimmers from Rotterdam European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming Road incident deaths in Victoria (state) Dutch emigrants to Australia 20th-century Dutch women {{Netherlands-swimming-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ans Schut
Johanna ("Ans") Schut (born 26 November 1944) is a former ice speed skater from the Netherlands. Ans Schut had her best year in 1968 when, after winning silver at the World Allround Championships, she became Olympic Champion on the 3,000 m at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble. Her time of 4:56.2 (a new Olympic record) was an excellent time those days and she won well ahead of Finnish skater Kaija Mustonen and Dutch compatriot Stien Kaiser, the 3,000 m world record holder at the time. In 1969, Schut won silver at the European Allround Championships and bronze at the World Allround Championships. That year, she also skated five world records. The next two years, she fell a few times during international championships (although she did manage to win bronze at the World Allround Championships in 1970). In 1971 she ended her speed skating career, got married, and changed her last name to Boekema-Schut. She has three children. Records Over the course of her career, Sch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ans Panhorst-Niesink
Anna Elisabeth "Ans" Panhorst-Niesink (28 October 1918 – 25 July 2010) was a Dutch athlete. She competed at the 1936 and 1948 Summer Olympics in the discus throw and finished in seventh and sixth place, respectively. In 1948 she also competed in the shot put, but failed to reach the final. She finished second and sixth in the discus throw and shot put, respectively, at the 1946 European Athletics Championships The 3rd European Athletics Championships were held from 22 August to 25 August 1946 in the Bislett Stadion in Oslo, Norway. For the first time it was a combined event for men and women, and for the first time a city in Scandinavia hosted the champ .... She was born Anna Niesink, then married and changed her last name to Panhorst-Niesink, and then to Woltman. Niesink first trained in basketball and sprint, but then shifted to throwing events, in which she soon become a national leader – between 1937 and 1954 she won seven shot put and at least 14 discus titles and hel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ans Markus
Antje Geertje (Ans) Markus (born January 29, 1947) is a Dutch painter and sculptor. Biography Markus was born in Halfweg, a province of North Holland. She is known for her paintings of a woman in white drapings. Markus is a self-taught artist who deploys a realistic painting style. Markus’ first exposition was opened in 1981. In 1995, she opened her own exposition space. In 2003, her 25th anniversary as a painter was celebrated with the release of a book which featured a vast collection of her paintings. Recently, more of her work has been displayed in museums and expositions across The Netherlands. In 2007, 2008, and 2010, her work was displayed in the Noord Brabants Museum, Kunstkerk Bakenes Haarlem Exposition, and Jan Van Der Togt Museum respectively. Style and Technique While Markus can be generally defined as a fashion painter, she is more specifically known for her work depicting women in white linen draping. These paintings are crafted using a realistic style, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ans Luttge-Deetman
Ans Luttge-Deetman (1867-1952) was a Dutch painter. Biography Luttge-Deetman née Deetman was born on 10 August 1902 in Zwolle. She attended the ''Dagtekenschool voor meisjes'' (Day drawing school for girls) in Amsterdam, ''Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten'' (State Academy of Fine Arts), the ''Instituut voor Kunstnijverheidsonderwijs'' (Institute for Applied Arts Education), and the ''Rijksinstituut tot Opleiding van Tekenleraren'' (National Institute for the Training of Drawing Teachers). Her teachers included , , Gerhard Westermann, and Hendrik Jan Wolter. She was married to fellow artist . Luttge-Deetman's work was included in the 1939 exhibition and sale ''Onze Kunst van Heden'' (Our Art of Today) at the Rijksmuseum The Rijksmuseum () is the national museum of the Netherlands dedicated to Dutch arts and history and is located in Amsterdam. The museum is located at the Museum Square in the borough of Amsterdam South, close to the Van Gogh Museum, the St ... in Am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ans Van Kemenade
Ans van Kemenade (born 1954 in Eindhoven) is a Dutch professor of English linguistics at the Radboud University Nijmegen specializing in the history of the English language. Biography Van Kemenade studied English and linguistics at Utrecht University, and received her doctorate there in 1987 with a thesis titled ''Syntactic Case and Morphological Case in the History of English''. Following positions at Leiden University and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam she was appointed professor and chair of English linguistics at the Radboud University Nijmegen in 1999. Van Kemenade has been the recipient of numerous awards and honours. In 2015 she was appointed as a member of the Permanent Committee for Large Scale Research Infrastructures advising the Dutch Research Council. In 2017 she was the recipient of a festschrift, Word Order Change in Acquisition and Language Contact, edited by Bettelou Los and Pieter de Haan. She was elected as a member of the Academia Europaea in 2018. In 2020 sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna (given Name)
Anna may refer to: People Surname and given name * Anna (name) Mononym * Anna the Prophetess, in the Gospel of Luke * Anna (wife of Artabasdos) (fl. 715–773) * Anna (daughter of Boris I) (9th–10th century) * Anna (Anisia) (fl. 1218 to 1221) * Anna of Poland, Countess of Celje (1366–1425) * Anna of Cilli (1386–1416) * Anna, Grand Duchess of Lithuania (died 1418) * Anne of Austria, Landgravine of Thuringia (1432–1462) * Anna of Nassau-Dillenburg (died 1514) * Anna, Duchess of Prussia (1576–1625) * Anna of Russia (1693–1740) * Anna, Lady Miller (1741–1781) * Anna Russell, Duchess of Bedford (1783–1857) * Anna, Lady Barlow (1873–1965) * Anna (feral child) (1932–1942) * Anna (singer) (born 1987) Places Australia * Hundred of Anna, a cadastral district in South Australia Iran * Anna, Fars, a village in Fars Province * Anna, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, a village in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province Russia * Anna, Voronezh Oblast, an urban locality in Vor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
