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. Derkinderen-Besier was educated at The Hague Academy of Visual Arts, the Amsterdam

Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten The Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten (State Academy of Fine Arts) was founded in 1870 in Amsterdam. It is a classical academy, a place where philosophers, academics and artists meet to test and exchange ideas and knowledge. The school supports ...

and the Rijksschool voor Kunstnijverheid Amsterdam. She became known as a needle artist and as leader of the costume department of the

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in Amsterdam. She donated many of Derkinderen'
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." 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

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Selected bibliography

* ''The clothing of our ancestors: 1700-1900. The costume department in the Netherlands Museum for History and Art in Amsterdam''. Amsterdam, 1926. * ntroduction 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

{{DEFAULTSORT:Derkinderen-Besier, Johanna 1865 births 1944 deaths People from Utrecht (city) Dutch artists Dutch women art historians Dutch women artists 20th-century Dutch artists 20th-century Dutch historians