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Mirjam Jacobson (14 July 1887 – 8 February 1945) was a
Mirjam Jacobson (14 July 1887 – 8 February 1945) was a Dutch
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painter.
Biography
Jacobson was born on 14 July 1887 inAmsterdam
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. She studied at the ' (National School for Arts and Crafts Amsterdam) and the ''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 ...
'' (State Academy of Fine Arts). Her teachers included , Johannes Hendricus Jurres
Johannes Hendricus Jurres (18751946) was a Dutch painter who was compared to Rembrandt, Velazquez and Rubens during his lifetime. He was one of the most influential painters of the interwar period.
Jurres was born into a Catholic family and wa ...
, Simon Maris
Simon Willem Maris (May 21, 1873 – January 22, 1935) was a Dutch painter best known as a portrait artist. He was the son of Dutch landscape painter Willem Maris of the Hague School.
Life and work
He was born in The Hague. Simon Maris was a st ...
, , and Hendrik Jan Wolter.
In 1919 she exhibited her work at the ''Jaarbeurs voor kunstnijverheid'' (Trade fair for arts and crafts). In 1932 she married Izzac Cohen Bendiks. Jacobson's work was included in the 1939 exhibition and sale ''Onze Kunst van Heden
Onze Kunst van Heden (Contemporary Artists/Our Art of Today) was an exhibition held in the winter of 1939 through 1940 at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Due to the threat of invasion in the years leading up to World War II, the Netherlands' go ...
'' (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 Amsterdam.
Jacobson and her husband were imprisoned at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
Bergen-Belsen , or Belsen, was a Nazi concentration camp in what is today Lower Saxony in northern Germany, southwest of the town of Bergen near Celle. Originally established as a prisoner of war camp, in 1943, parts of it became a concent ...
. Both she and her husband died there before they were able to immigrate to Honduras. Jacobson died on 8 February 1945 at the age of 57.
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jacobson, Mirjam 1887 births 1945 deaths Painters from Amsterdam 20th-century Dutch women artists Dutch painters Dutch people who died in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp Dutch Jews who died in the Holocaust Dutch women painters 20th-century Dutch painters