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[nordleuchten]

The forgotten children

The sad truth is that history sometimes tends to forget and to overshadow. Take the La Fayette family. A prominent family and when the oldest daughter Anastasie de La Fayette married on May 9, 1798 Juste-Charles de Fay (Faÿ) de La Tour-Maubourg, the family was overjoyed. The couple’s future looked bright, when La Fayette wrote on August 20-21, 1798 to George Washington:

(…) But Anastasia Being a little Unwell, tho’ Nothing Alarming in it, Has Made a Halt in Holland, with Charles Maubourg, while Her Mother and Virginia Have proceeded on their way to paris where they now Have Been a few days Arrived (…)

“To George Washington from Lafayette, 20–21 August 1798,” Founders Online, National Archives, [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Retirement Series, vol. 2, 2 January 1798 – 15 September 1798, ed. W. W. Abbot. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998, pp. 539–545.] (10/11/2022)

The reason for Anastasie being unwell? She was pregnant and Virginie wrote happily in her book:

After a short stay there [Paris], and a visit to Mme de Chavaniac in Auvergne, we all met again in the following year (1799) at Vianen, near Utrecht [in the Netherlands]. My father had come there from Holstein, with George. Exiles can fix themselves nowhere. Their only thought is to abandon their momentary home, their only wish, to depart. It was there that my sister gave birth to her first child, and that my aunts came to see us.

And in the footnotes, we can read:

Célestine de Maubourg, married to the Baron de Brigode who died “Pair de France.”

Mme de Lasteyrie, Life of Madame de Lafayette, L. Techener, London, 1872, p. 337.

Jules Germain Cloquet published this little chart in his book:

Jules Germain Cloquet, Recollections of the Private Life of General Lafayette, Baldwin and Cradock, London, 1835, p. 227

We see that Anastasie was the mother of two daughters, her oldest child being Célestine – but what if I were to tell you, that that is not all? I went to search the baptism record of Célestine in the Archives of Utrecht – and was for once successful in my inquiry.

We see that Célestine Louise Henriette was baptised on February 2, 1799. Her aunt Virginie and Alfred Louis Marie de Fay de La Tour-Maubourg stood as witnesses. But prior to Célestine’s baptism there was another one. “Maria Victorina” (the Dutch spelling) was baptism and her grand-mother Adrienne as well as one of her father’s brothers, Marie Victor Nicolas de Fay de La Tour-Maubourg, were her godparents. Marie and Célestine were twins.

It seems as if “Maria Victoria” must have died shortly after her baptism because on May 9, 1799 to Thomas Jefferson:

My wife, my daughters, and Son in law, join in presenting their affectionate respects to Mrs Washington & to you my dear g[ener]al the former is recovered & sets out for france on monday next with Virginia—our little grand Daughter is well (…)

“To George Washington from Lafayette, 9 May 1799,” Founders Online, National Archives, [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Retirement Series, vol. 4, 20 April 1799 – 13 December 1799, ed. W. W. Abbot. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999, pp. 54–59.] (10/11/2022)

But there is more, La Fayette further wrote to Thomas Jefferson on June 21, 1801:

The Health of My Wife is Mending—Anastasia Will Before long Make me Once More a Grand Father—Virginia is as Yet UnMarried—My Son Who Has Received Two Wounds at the Battle of the Mincio and is Now With me intends to Set out in a few Weeks for Milan Where His Regiment is Quartered (…)

“To Thomas Jefferson from Lafayette, 21 June 1801,” Founders Online, National Archives, [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 34, 1 May–31 July 1801, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007, pp. 403–404.] (10/11/2022)

Most sources name Jenny as Anastasie’s next child but Jenny was born on September 6, 1812 (La Fayette’s birthday). Some other sources (less credible ones, if you were to ask me) claim that there was a daughter by the name of Louise, born in 1805. I could find nothing about her or any other potential children, but I think it is safe to assume that Anastasie and Charles had to carry some of their children to the grave, just like her parents had to do with her oldest sister Henriette.

#marquis de lafayette #la fayette #french history #american history #letter #history #anastasie de lafayette #virginie de lafayette #founders online #utrecht archive #la tour-maubourg #george washington #thomas jefferson #1798 #1799 #1801 #1805 #1812 #resources

[miffyarchive]

miffy museum from last week !!

#city life #minimalist #netherlands #student life #aesthetic #aestehtic #digital archives #studyblr #food #food log #miffy #utrecht #photography #miffy and friends #nijntje

[kundst]

Patricia Paludanus (Dutch 1974)

Archive (2023)

Color pencil on paper (40 x 40 cm)

#patricia paludanus #dutch art #art on paper #moving gallery utrecht #paper positions berlin #archive #color pencil #2023

[rayeshistoryhouse]

The fattest man in the Netherlands.

At the time the photo was taken on Nov. 7, 1955, Piet van der Zwaard weighed 405 pounds with a 2m (6ft 7in) waist.

rayeshistory.com

#black and white #1950s #dutch history #utrecht #national archives

[yurenev]

A walkabout in Utrecht organized by my peers at MAPS program. Inspired by Rebecca Solnit’s guide of getting lost, we wandered individually to practice the art of walking, losing oneself and finding again. I just returned from Russia and the anticipation of the war was everywhere. Donald Weber and I talked about how the war is a psychowar and the media is crazy and it can’t happen. Almost six months later I processed this roll of film and it immediately brought me back to that time of no war and anticipation. I truly wish we were correct with our speculations. 

#archive #blackandwhitefilm #kodak #walking #utrecht #2022 #alexeyyurenev

[germanpostwarmodern]

For more than two decades after its initial publishing in 1958 Theodore Morey Brown’s monograph „The Work of G. Rietveld, architect“ was the sole comprehensive overview of Gerrit Rietveld’s oeuvre and a a highly unusual publication for several reasons: first, it was the PhD thesis handed in by an American student at a Dutch university. Second, Theodore M. Brown didn’t speak or read Dutch so he had to rely on the translations and explanations of Truus Schröder who kept Rietveld‘s archive. And third, it was highly unusual to research and write about a living artist/architect since the usual period between an artist’s death and first research were at least 50 years.

Accordingly Brown’s book was met with considerable interest in the Netherlands and internationally since it was written in English and thus provided an international audience with the first every opportunity to evaluate Rietveld’s work, including his then contemporary work, in its entirety. And although Henry Russell Hitchcock in his review of the book for the „Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians“ criticized Brown for assigning the Schröder House such a central role in his analysis, the reception of it was largely positive. In a recent article for the „Bulletin KNOB“, the central organ of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Oudheidkundige Bond, Rixt Hoekstra recounts the genesis of Brown’s dissertation, the involvement of Gerrit Rietveld (little) and Truus Schröder and others from the Rietveld family (considerable) and how the book laid the foundation for the study of modern architectural history at Utrecht University and beyond. 

A significant piece of architectural history and a beautiful one as well since Rietveld himself designed the dust jacket.

#gerrit rietveld #de stijl #monograph #architecture #netherlands #architecture book #architectural history #book #vintage book

[pronoun-fucker]

“A two-time Miss Transgender Peru winner has been arrested in Belgium after reportedly trafficking people into the sex trade, making some of them veritable slaves in Europe’s most famous legal red light districts.

Celeste Rivasplata, 34, is a widely known social media influencer in Peru for having won two national Miss Transgender titles in 2019 and 2021, as well as Miss International Peru that same year. But Rivasplata, a biological male who identifies as a woman, is now facing human trafficking charges after police became aware he was running an international sexual exploitation ring with one dozen victims.

According to La Meuse, Rivasplata would solicit vulnerable trans-identified young people from Peru, offering them a better life in Belgium.

While the exact ages of the victims is unknown, Rivasplata’s father would collect fees from them in Peru prior to their departure to Belgium. Once they arrived, Rivasplata would strip them of their passports and tell them their debt could only be paid through prostitution. The victims were also threatened that their families back in Peru would be harmed if they did not comply.

Rivasplata rented apartments and hotel rooms in 6 cities in Belgium where prostitution had some legal protections, as well as in Utrecht, Netherlands, where he housed the victims, leaving them with nothing more than food. He then placed ads featuring the victims on the internet, including on red light district escorting websites, and handled the bookings. Clients were charged €150 to €300 for “passes” that then gave them access to their chosen victim.

The money Rivasplata collected was apparently laundered using an international wire transfer agency back to Peru, with some administrators being paid a bribe to not log Rivasplata’s identification with every transaction.

Rivasplata was arrested on July 7 after police became aware of the operation and connected him to the trafficking victims through digital means. He was jailed in a women’s holding cell in Berkendael prior to being released without conditions after a €7,000 bail was paid on Wednesday.

In local news reports on Rivasplata’s charges, he was referred to using feminine pronouns.

In 2019, Rivasplata was featured on multiple Peruvian television programs after the country introduced gender self-identification laws. In one interview, Rivasplata stated that previous Peruvian policies not allowing him to change his legal markers were unfair because he “felt like a woman” and wanted to be perceived and treated as one.”

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#radical feminism #radfem #gender critical #transgender #trans #anti prostitution #sex trafficking #miss transgender Peru #peru #Celeste Rivasplata

[whencyclopedia]

Dangerous Gifts: Imperialism, Security, and Civil Wars in the Levant, 1798-1864

As Assistant Professor of History at Utrecht University, Ozan Ozavci focuses on the twilight of the Ottoman Empire, a period when its European rivals intervened, economically and militarily, in Ottoman affairs. As a professor of Transimperial History, Ozavci's book is international in scope, covering British, French, and Ottoman imperial projects in equal measure. To that end, he draws on material from Turkish, Arabic, and numerous European archives in order to examine the late-Ottoman period from an internationalist perspective. European empires, particularly in the long 19th century, were fixated on the fate of the Ottoman Empire. The so-called "Eastern Question" emerged from this period, as the Europeans questioned what was to be done with the ‘decaying�� Ottoman imperium. Ozavci inverts this common understanding, bringing Ottoman and local actors to the fore, as they too attempted to deal with the crises in the region.

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#OttomanEmpire #Levant #Imperialism #HistoryFacts #History

[bpod-bpod]

A Big Look

To examine something small, you can either look very closely, or try to make it bigger. Microscopy – fundamental to biomedical science, as the BPoD archive shows – has long helped magnify the miniscule matter of our bodies. But conventional light microscopy’s detail is limited by the physical properties of light, and other techniques are financially and technically demanding. Expansion microscopy aims to provide greater precision in a more accessible way, by enlarging samples, rather than increasing magnification. Samples are embedded in a gel that then swells. The original technique expanded samples four-fold, but a new approach has explored alternative hydrogel recipes to cook up a version that can expand to up to 10 times its size. The result is a comparatively simple technique that enlarges mouse brain tissue and human cell cultures (3D render shown, with distinct cellular structures clearly visible), broadening access to the finest details of life.

Written by Anthony Lewis

Video by Hugo GJ Damstra and colleagues

Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Biophysics, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands and Janelia Campus, HHMI, Ashburn, VA, USA

Video originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Published in eLife, February 2022

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#science #biomedicine #microscopy #expansion microscopy #bpod #biomedical picture of the day #immunofluorescence

[longliverockback]

Pixies Death to the Pixies 1997 4AD ————————————————— Tracks CD One: 01. Cecilia Ann 02. Planet of Sound 03. Tame 04. Here Comes Your Man 05. Debaser 06. Wave of Mutilation 07. Dig for Fire 08. Caribou 09. Holiday Song 10. Nimrod’s Son 11. U-Mass 12. Bone Machine 13. Gigantic 14. Where Is My Mind? 15. Velouria 16. Gouge Away 17. Monkey Gone to Heaven

Tracks CD Two: Live by VPRO Radio 3 on September 25th 1990 in Vredenburg, Utrecht 01. Debaser 02. Rock Music 03. Broken Face 04. Isla de Encanta 05. Hangwire 06. Dead 07. Into the White 08. Monkey Gone to Heaven 09. Gouge Away 10. Here Comes Your Man 11. Allison 12. Hey 13. Gigantic 14. Crackity Jones 15. Something against You 16. Tame 17. Wave of Mutilation 18. Where Is My Mind? 19. Ed Is Dead 20. Vamos 21. Tony’s Theme —————————————————

Kim Deal “Mrs. John Murphy”

Black Francis

David Lovering

Joey Santiago

* Long Live Rock Archive

#Pixies #Kim Deal #Black Francis #David Lovering #Joey Santiago #Death to the Pixies #Compilation #Indie #1997

[nordleuchten]

ALL of La Fayette’s Grandchildren

(This post discusses the death and loss of children)

While four children are still pretty easy to keep track of, La Fayette’s abundance of grandchildren can be quite confusing. You often see the following graphic, published in Jules Germain Cloquet’s book:

Jules Germain Cloquet, Recollections of the Private Life of General Lafayette, Baldwin and Cradock, London, 1835, p. 227.

All fine and dandy, but I was looking for more detailed information and I wanted to include the children that had already died by the time Cloquet publishes his book – I therefor made a graphic of my own. :-)

I am tempted to make one for the great-grandchildren as well, since La Fayette was very exited to become a Great-Grandfather – but this one was already a wild ride and La Fayette had more great-grandchildren then grand-children, let me tell you.

Anyway, some names are written in italics, these are the names the individuals commonly went by. I find it funny to see that all of Virginie’s children went by their second name, just like Virginie herself mostly just used her second name. Anastasie’s second child has an Asterix to her name. I have only once seen the name spelled out, on the certificate of baptism. The twins were baptized in Vianen (modern day Netherlands) and the name on the document was the Germanic spelling “Maria Victorina” – I used what I assumed is the best French spelling of the name.

The dates in bold indicate that the corresponding documentation of the birth/marriage/death can be found in the archives.

Anastasie and Charles: Finding Célestine’s dead twin sister was actually a surprise for me since I have never before seen her being mentioned. Anastasie gave birth for the first time in a town near Utrecht in what today are the Netherlands. The achieves there still have the certificate of baptism (on February 30, was the clerk sloppy or did the region in 1799 adhere to a different calendar style where February could have more then 29 days?) and we can very clearly see that there were too children. By May 9, 1799, La Fayette wrote to George Washington and referred to only one grand-child:

My wife, my daughters, and Son in law, join in presenting their affectionate respects to Mrs Washington & to you my dear g[ener]al the former is recovered & sets out for france on monday next with Virginia—our little grand Daughter [Célestine] is well, will your charming one accept our tender regard?

“To George Washington from Lafayette, 9 May 1799,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/06-04-02-0041. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Retirement Series, vol. 4, 20 April 1799 – 13 December 1799, ed. W. W. Abbot. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999, pp. 54–59.] (02/12/2024)

I suspect that Anastasie had a stillbirth around August/September of 1801. La Fayette mentioned in a letter to Thomas Jefferson on June 21, 1801:

Anastasia Will Before long Make me Once More a Grand Father

“To Thomas Jefferson from Lafayette, 21 June 1801,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-34-02-0318. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 34, 1 May–31 July 1801, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007, pp. 403–404.] (02/12/2024)

There is no mention of this child being born and both the achieves in Paris and Courpalay yield no information so that it is unlikely that the child was born and then died young. Georges’ daughter died very young and she still is in the archives. Given La Fayette’s wording we can assume that Anastasie’s pregnancy was already somewhat advanced and the term miscarriage is only used up until the 20th week of a pregnancy, after that it is considered a stillbirth.

Georges and Emilie: The couple lost at least one daughter, Léontine Emilie, young, aged just four weeks. La Fayette wrote in a letter to Thomas Jefferson on February 20, 1807:

My family are pretty well and beg to be most affectionately respectfully and gratefully presented to you—We expected a Boy to be called after your name—But little Tommy has again proved to be a Girl [Léontine Emilie].

“To Thomas Jefferson from Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, 20 February 1807,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/99-01-02-5122. [This is an Early Access document from The Papers of Thomas Jefferson. It is not an authoritative final version.] (02/12/2024)

La Fayette later wrote to James Madison on June 10, 1807:

We Have Had the Misfortune to Loose a female Child of His, four Weeks old [Léontine Emilie]. My Younger daughter Virginia Has Lately presented us With an other infant of the Same Sex [Marie Pauline]. My Wife’s Health is Not Worse at this Moment, But Ever too Bad.

To James Madison from Marie-Adrienne-Françoise de Noailles, marquise de Lafayette, 10 June 1807,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/99-01-02-1768. [This is an Early Access document from The Papers of James Madison. It is not an authoritative final version.] (02/12/2024)

As a sidenote because it confused me while searching for the letter; the archives list Adrienne as the author. I am certain that is wrong because a) Adrienne was not corresponding with James Madison, b) this is not her writing style but La Fayette’s, c) the letter does not have her typical signature and d) there is the passage about the authors wife’s health – this one at the least gives it away.

Identifying Léontine Emilie was actually quite a bit of luck as well. I found the letter to Madison by accident and that letter is the only source that mentions her that I know of. I have never seen her in any other letters, documentation, contemporary or secondary books. The letter helped to narrow her birthday and her date of death down and with that information I searches the archives in Paris and Courpalay in the hopes of finding the child – and I was lucky. While I of course understand the order of things, it still saddens me to see that you can be born into such a prominent family – your father was a Marquis, your grand-father was the Marquis, and still, not even your families biographers care to even mention you.

Virginie und Louis: For all I know, and I again have to say that I have not nearly as much data/correspondence as I would like with regard to these topics, Virginie never lost a child. There is always the question what La Fayette would feel comfortable telling and to whom. There is also the question if La Fayette himself was always aware of everything. For example, in the case of a miscarriage very early on in the pregnancy he might have not included it in his correspondence or in fact maybe not even known himself.

As much as would wish a happy family life for Virginie, stillbirths, infant deaths and especially miscarriages were and still are not uncommon.

I have put excerpts from a few more letters by La Fayette to his American friends under the cut that help identify his grandchildren.

La Fayette to Thomas Jefferson, June 4, 1803:

I am Here, with my Wife, Son, daughter in law, and New Born little grand daughter [Natalie Renée Émilie] taking Care of my Wounds, and Stretching My Rusted Articulations untill I can Return to my Beloved Rural Abode at La Grange.

“To Thomas Jefferson from Lafayette, 4 June 1803,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-40-02-0361. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 40, 4 March–10 July 1803, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013, pp. 485–486.] (02/12/2024)

La Fayette to Thomas Jefferson, April 20, 1805:

Here I am with my son and daughter in law who is going to increase our family [Charlotte Mathilde]. Her father is to stand god father to the child and if He is a Boy we intend taking the liberty to give Him Your Name.

“To Thomas Jefferson from Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, 20 April 1805,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/99-01-02-1556. [This is an Early Access document from The Papers of Thomas Jefferson. It is not an authoritative final version.] (02/12/2024)

La Fayette to Thomas Jefferson, April 8, 1809:

(…) My Children are in Good Health. Two of them, My daughter in Law [Clémentine Adrienne], and Virginia [Françoise Mélanie] are Going to increase the family.

“To Thomas Jefferson from Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, 14 December 1822,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/98-01-02-3215. [This is an Early Access document from The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series. It is not an authoritative final version.] (02/12/2024)

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[miffyarchive]

this is my first post on here, so hi ! I'm originally from twitter (same username), but twitter is messing up lately so i need a backup plan.

this is my past week in groningen and utrecht! i went to many fun places and enjoyed doing my homework. as you can see, i love low saturated pictures!

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[researchbuzz]

Hurricane Evacuation Orders, "Napoleon's Atlas", Utrecht University, More: Thursday ResearchBuzz, May 9, 2024

NEW RESOURCES University of Virginia: First-Ever Hurricane Evacuation Order Database May Hold Keys to Future Readiness. “Our database includes evacuation orders issued by official state and local agencies in response to hurricanes that impacted the United States between 2014 and 2022 (25 hurricane events in total). We collected archival orders from multiple sources, including official websites…

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[wikiuntamed]

On this day in Wikipedia: Tuesday, 14th November

Welcome, Selam, أهلا وسهلا, Willkommen 🤗 What does @Wikipedia say about 14th November through the years 🏛️📜🗓️?

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14th November 2017 🗓️ : Event - Rancho Tehama shootings A gunman kills four people and injures 12 others during a shooting spree across Rancho Tehama, California. He had earlier murdered his wife in their home. "On November 13–14, 2017, a series of shootings occurred in Rancho Tehama, an unincorporated community in Tehama County, California, U.S. The gunman, 44-year-old Kevin Janson Neal, died by suicide after a Corning police officer rammed and stopped his stolen vehicle. During the shooting spree, five..."

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14th November 2013 🗓️ : Death - Sudhir Bhat Sudhir Bhat, Indian producer and manager (b. 1951) "'Sudhir Bhat was an Indian Marathi play producer. He was the founder member of the famous Theatre group "Suyog".Bhat is one of the few commercially successful Marathi play producers. He showcased his plays for the Marathi diaspora in the United States. He continued with this project for around three..."

14th November 1973 🗓️ : Event - Anne, Princess Royal In the United Kingdom, Princess Anne marries Captain Mark Phillips, in Westminster Abbey. "Anne, Princess Royal (Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise; born 15 August 1950) is a member of the British royal family. She is the second child and only daughter of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and the only sister of King Charles III. Anne was born 3rd in the line of succession..."

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14th November 1922 🗓️ : Event - British Broadcasting Company The British Broadcasting Company begins radio service in the United Kingdom. "The British Broadcasting Company Limited (BBC) was a short-lived British commercial broadcasting company formed on 18 October 1922 by British and American electrical companies doing business in the United Kingdom. Licensed by the British General Post Office, its original office was located on the..."

14th November 1817 🗓️ : Death - Policarpa Salavarrieta Policarpa Salavarrieta, Colombian seamstress and spy (b. 1795) "Policarpa Salavarrieta (c. 26 January 1795 – 14 November 1817), also known as La Pola, was a Neogranadine seamstress who spied for the Revolutionary Forces during the Spanish Reconquista of the Viceroyalty of New Granada. She was captured by Spanish Royalists and ultimately executed for high..."

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14th November 🗓️ : Holiday - Christian feast day: Alberic of Utrecht "Saint Alberic of Utrecht, Dutch: Alberik I van Utrecht, (died 21 August 784) was a Benedictine monk and bishop of Utrecht, in what is today the Netherlands. ..."

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[germanpostwarmodern]

As editor, artist, critic and poet Theo van Doesburg has had a profound influence on the Dutch as well as international avant-garde. But although his significance is undisputed and manifold books have been written about him the person behind the art has remained strangely opaque. Recently this gap has been closed by Hans Renders’ and Sjoerd van Faassen’s monumental biography „Ik sta helemaal alleen. Theo van Doesburg 1883-1931“, published by De Bezige Bij: the authors recount the artist’s eventful life from his upbringing as Emile Küpper, son of German photographer Wilhelm Küpper, in Utrecht until his early death in Davos in 1931. What immediately becomes clear is that he was a difficult and erratic character, prone to quarrel and intransigence: armed with a big ego and absolute confidence in his own abilities he didn’t accept dissent. He was hotheaded but also quickly felt offended, a combination that drove away even the most good-natured allies. At the same time Does was a creative powerhouse: from an early age on he drew and painted, fervently read about religion and sociology, dealt with philosophy, literature and art and eventually also became an art critic. This position soon confronted him with the latest developments in art, namely Cubism and Abstract Art, that opened his eyes for these currents. Leaving behind his earlier portrait and landscape paintings Van Doesburg embraced the new and soon associated with like-minded artists and architects like Mondrian, Oud or Van der Leck. With the De Stijl magazine in 1917 he then established an outlet for his many interests. In the years following he became a salesman for his own ideas, accompanied by his wife Nelly, holding lectures, organizing exhibitions and frequently visiting the Bauhaus hoping for a teaching position. Disillusioned they later settled in their house in France where Theo struggled with asthma and a deteriorating health that eventually caused his untimely death.

With their archive-based biography the authors finally draw attention to Does the human: without leaving out his artistic development they paint a detailed portrait of the man behind the famous name, vividly written and eye-opening.

#theo van doesburg #de stijl #dutch art #art book #art history #book #biography

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