Juliana Augusta "Guus" Preitinger (Guus van Dongen) (18 October 1878 — 21 January 1946) was the first wife of Kees van Dongen

Kees van Dongen

Cornelis Theodorus Maria van Dongen , usually known as Kees van Dongen or just Van Dongen, was a Dutch painter and one of the Fauves. He gained a reputation for his sensuous, at times garish, portraits....

 and herself a painter.

Preitinger and van Dongen had first met at the art academy in Rotterdam. They married 11 June 1901. The pair had a son, who died two days after he was born in December 1901, and
a daughter, Dolly van Dongen. In 1905, the family moved to an apartment in the Bateau-Lavoir in the slums of Montmartre, and became neighbors and friends with Picasso. In 1914, Guus and Dolly went to Rotterdam for summer and World War I

World War I

World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

 prevented them from returning to Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

until 1918. By then, Kees van Dongen was in a relationship with a socialite married woman called Léa Alvin, nicknamed "Jasmy".

Augusta Preitinger and Kees van Dongen divorced in 1921. She died January 1946.

Sources

• Artprice

External links

• Portrait of Guus Preitinger at the Van Gogh Museum