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Her style and free-willed attitude made her popular, as did her eagerness to perform in exotic and revealing clothing. She posed for provocative photos and mingled in wealthy circles. Since most Europeans at the time were unfamiliar with the Dutch East Indies, Mata Hari was thought of as exotic, and her claims were accepted as genuine.
In 1841, Anna Barbara van Meerten-Schilperoort founded Hulpbetoon aan Eerlijke en Vlijtige Armoede, the first women's organization in the Netherlands. Middle-class women began to find paid employment, first in nursing. The first department store in the Netherlands opened in 1860, and women began finding jobs as retail clerks.
The book is the result of a research project called the Digital Women's lexicon of the Netherlands (Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon van Nederland) led by Els Kloek. [2] The biographies are presented in alphabetical order, and can also be viewed online. [3] The breakdown of biographies per period according to the website (which is still growing) is as ...
Rachel Ruysch (3 June 1664 – 12 October 1750) [1] was a Dutch still-life painter from the Northern Netherlands. She specialized in flowers, inventing her own style and achieving international fame in her lifetime. Due to a long and successful career that spanned over six decades, she became the best documented female painter of the Dutch ...
Jo Cals (1914–1971), Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1965–1966) Hendrikus Colijn (1869–1944), Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1925–1926, 1933–1939) Pieter Cort van der Linden (1846–1935), Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1913–1918) Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis (1846–1919), first prominent Socialist
Ata Kandó (1913–2017), noted for her Dream in the Wood fantasy photos, Hungarian refugee photos and Amazonian indigenous images; Emma Kirchner (1830–1909) German born photographer who lived and worked in the Netherlands, first, and for over 30 years, the only professional woman photographer working in Delft and the surrounding area.
Jannetje Johanna Schaft was born in Haarlem, the capital of the province of North Holland. [1] Her mother, Aafje Talea Schaft (born Vrijer) was a Mennonite and her father, Pieter Schaft, a teacher, was attached to the Social Democratic Workers' Party; the two were very protective of Schaft because of the death due to diphtheria of her older sister Anna in 1927.
She currently lives and works in the Netherlands and is one of the country's most prolific artists. [9] Dumas has also featured in some films, Miss Interpreted (1997), Alice Neel (2007), Kentridge and Dumas in Conversation (2009), The Future is Now! (2011), and Screwed (2017). Several books included illustrations by Dumas,- Marlene Dumas: Myths ...