Hubertine Heijermans
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Hubertine Heijermans is a Dutch painter, a multi-plate etching
artist and printmaker.
. on 8 January 1936. She was educated at the Barlaeus Gymnasium
, took painting lessons from 1954-1957 with Jos Rovers, and then won a scholarship for the Rijksakademie
and worked with professor Gé Röling (1904–1981) and Jan Wiegers
. In 1958 she met Nils Tellander, born in Holland, but a volunteer in the British Army
during the second world war. They got married in September of that year and settled in Switzerland near Lausanne, where in 1960 their son Anyan was born. In 1968 Heijermans entered the American high school Villa Schifanoia
(Rosary College of Arts and Sciences Villa Schifanoia) in Fiesole
. The school was run by Dominican Sisters and instead of having to remain in the convent, her teacher Swietlan Kraczyna
found a studio for her in a palazzo
overlooking Florence and the river Arno
. In 1972 Heijermans won the Premio Brunellesco (a Florentine prize for painters, sculptors and other artists) with a series of seven oil paintings, honored by Piero Bargellini the Mayor of Florence. Then she returned to Villars
in Switzerland, taking with her the 200 kilogram etching press from Bendini-Bologna. The couple Tellander divorced in 1973 and her husband remained in Lausanne.
and Yves Saint Laurent. Her brushes captured Isabelle Adjani
playing in 'La Reine Margot', visible on the official website in section painting in Switzerland and Emmanuelle Béart
, in the french movie 'Une Femme Française', Carla Bruni
, topmodel in the 90s of Yves Saint-Laurent and several other fashion-houses. Inspiration was also found with the Swiss Circus Knie
and in 2003, when the family Knie celebrated their 200 year existence, Heijermans offered her painting, Géraldine equestrian acrobate as a gift, which is now hanging in the main office of the Circus' Headquarters.
(Florence) Italy showed her the ancient techniques in oil painting including the use of flake white . His secret recipes including white toxic lead powder taught her to improve the adherence of the paint and reduce the process of it becoming dark and yellow with time. In the 90s Jesus Penarreal equally showed the value of thin layers of glaze, which flake white allowed to paint. Penarreal sent Heijermans to study this Spanish impressionist painter Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida
in the Museu de Belles Arts
(Valencia) where students can draw.
. She exhibited in Aigle, Lausanne
, Montreux
, Fribourg, Sion, Porrentruy and in Aubonne near Lausanne. In 1994 Heijermans showed hundreds of oilpaintings, watercolors and etchings in Singapore. Other exhibits were held in The Netherlands, in the Scheveningen (1964), Delft
(1970), Amsterdam
(1982) and Leiden (1983). The Musée Jenisch
in Vevey now keeps 120 etchings, lithos and héliogravures, since recent work was added in 2007. The museum for photography Musée de l'Elysée
in Lausanne conserves 45 photo-etchings since Charles-Henri Favrod personally made his choice of her héliogravures in 1993. In fact she mastered photogravure
and color etching while staying in Lucca
with Luis Camnitzer
and David Finkbeiner, both from New York. The Dutch Museum van Bommel van Dam
keeps 23 etchings and lithographies printed by herself since 1978 when they were accepted after a vote of the Municipality of the town of Venlo
. Her graphic work can also be found at the Dominican University
, Illinois. In July 2011 the recently restored Musée du Chablais of the Château de la Porte du Scex added 2 oil paintings to their collection of etchings, lithos, héliogravures and woodcuts of which they already conserved 80 artist proofs and handprinted originals.
Etching
Etching is the process of using strong acid or mordant to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio in the metal...
artist and printmaker.
Early life
Hubertine Heijermans was born in AmsterdamAmsterdam
Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...
. on 8 January 1936. She was educated at the Barlaeus Gymnasium
Barlaeus Gymnasium
The Barlaeus Gymnasium is a well-known secondary school in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. It is one of the five categorial gymnasia in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, the other four being Vossius Gymnasium, Ignatius Gymnasium, Het 4e gymnasium and Cygnus Gymnasium...
, took painting lessons from 1954-1957 with Jos Rovers, and then won a scholarship for the Rijksakademie
Rijksakademie
The Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten is a two-year residency for visual artists, based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.Funded by the Dutch government, residents are granted a stipend and are allotted a personal studio in the former military barracks building in which the Rijksakademie is housed...
and worked with professor Gé Röling (1904–1981) and Jan Wiegers
Jan Wiegers
Jan Wiegers was a Dutch expressionist painter.Wiegers was educated as a sculptor at the Academie Minerva in Groningen, but he also studied painting at the Academies of Rotterdam under A. H. R...
. In 1958 she met Nils Tellander, born in Holland, but a volunteer in the British Army
British Army
The British Army is the land warfare branch of Her Majesty's Armed Forces in the United Kingdom. It came into being with the unification of the Kingdom of England and Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707. The new British Army incorporated Regiments that had already existed in England...
during the second world war. They got married in September of that year and settled in Switzerland near Lausanne, where in 1960 their son Anyan was born. In 1968 Heijermans entered the American high school Villa Schifanoia
Villa Schifanoia
thumb|250px|The garden.Villa Schifanoia is a villa in Fiesole, Tuscany, central Italy, near the boundary with the communal territory of Florence.-History:...
(Rosary College of Arts and Sciences Villa Schifanoia) in Fiesole
Fiesole
Fiesole is a town and comune of the province of Florence in the Italian region of Tuscany, on a famously scenic height above Florence, 8 km NE of that city...
. The school was run by Dominican Sisters and instead of having to remain in the convent, her teacher Swietlan Kraczyna
Swietlan Kraczyna
Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna is a painter and multi-plate etching artist, working primarily in Italy. He was born on the Russian-Poland border in 1940.-Early life:...
found a studio for her in a palazzo
Palazzo
Palazzo, an Italian word meaning a large building , may refer to:-Buildings:*Palazzo, an Italian type of building**Palazzo style architecture, imitative of Italian palazzi...
overlooking Florence and the river Arno
Arno
The Arno is a river in the Tuscany region of Italy. It is the most important river of central Italy after the Tiber.- Source and route :The river originates on Mount Falterona in the Casentino area of the Apennines, and initially takes a southward curve...
. In 1972 Heijermans won the Premio Brunellesco (a Florentine prize for painters, sculptors and other artists) with a series of seven oil paintings, honored by Piero Bargellini the Mayor of Florence. Then she returned to Villars
Villars
-In France:*Villars, Dordogne*Villars, Eure-et-Loir*Villars, Loire*Villars, Vaucluse*Villars-les-Dombes, Ain*Villars-le-Sec, Territoire de Belfort-In Switzerland:*Canton of Jura** Villars, Jura, Switzerland in the municipality Fontenais*Canton of Fribourg...
in Switzerland, taking with her the 200 kilogram etching press from Bendini-Bologna. The couple Tellander divorced in 1973 and her husband remained in Lausanne.
Portraits
Heijermans painted apart from self-portraits a series of portraits of actresses or ‘Haute-Couture’ models of Dior, Jean-Paul GaultierJean-Paul Gaultier
Jean Paul Gaultier , born 24 April 1952 in Arcueil, Val-de-Marne, France) is a French haute couture fashion designer. Gaultier was the creative director of Hermès from 2003 to 2010. In the past, he has hosted the television series Eurotrash....
and Yves Saint Laurent. Her brushes captured Isabelle Adjani
Isabelle Adjani
Isabelle Yasmine Adjani is a French film actress and singer. Adjani has appeared in 30 films since 1970. She holds the record for most César Awards for Best Actress with five, for Possession , One Deadly Summer , Camille Claudel , Queen Margot and Skirt Day...
playing in 'La Reine Margot', visible on the official website in section painting in Switzerland and Emmanuelle Béart
Emmanuelle Béart
Emmanuelle Béart is a French film actress, who has appeared in over 50 film and television productions since 1972. Béart won a César Award for Best Supporting Actress in the film Manon des Sources . She has been nominated a further seven times for Most Promising Actress and Best Actress.- Early...
, in the french movie 'Une Femme Française', Carla Bruni
Carla Bruni
Carla Bruni-Sarkozy is an Italian-French songwriter, singer, actress, and former model...
, topmodel in the 90s of Yves Saint-Laurent and several other fashion-houses. Inspiration was also found with the Swiss Circus Knie
Circus Knie
Circus Knie is the largest circus of Switzerland, based in Rapperswil.The circus was founded in 1803 by the Knie family and has existed in its present form since 1919 when it changed from an open arena to a covered tent. The circus has been long famous for its animals and now operates a zoo and a...
and in 2003, when the family Knie celebrated their 200 year existence, Heijermans offered her painting, Géraldine equestrian acrobate as a gift, which is now hanging in the main office of the Circus' Headquarters.
Painters from Italy and Spain
In 1970 Pietro AnnigoniPietro Annigoni
Pietro Annigoni was an Italian portrait and fresco painter, who became world famous after painting Queen Elizabeth II in 1956.-Life:Born in Milan in 1910, Annigoni was a painter who was influenced by the Italian Renaissance....
(Florence) Italy showed her the ancient techniques in oil painting including the use of flake white . His secret recipes including white toxic lead powder taught her to improve the adherence of the paint and reduce the process of it becoming dark and yellow with time. In the 90s Jesus Penarreal equally showed the value of thin layers of glaze, which flake white allowed to paint. Penarreal sent Heijermans to study this Spanish impressionist painter Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida
Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida
Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida was a Valencian Spanish painter. Sorolla excelled in the painting of portraits, landscapes, and monumental works of social and historical themes...
in the Museu de Belles Arts
Museu de Belles Arts de València
The Museu de Belles Arts de València is an art gallery in Valencia, Spain, founded in 1913. It houses some 2,000 works, most dating from the 14th-17th centuries, including a Self portrait of Diego Velázquez, a St...
(Valencia) where students can draw.
Exhibits
Exhibits in Florence (Italy) took place in 1969, 1970 and 1972 and in Switzerland from 1973–2008, after she settled in the Commune of OllonOllon
Ollon is a municipality in the district of Aigle in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland, sited in the foothills of the mountains to the south-east of the Lake of Geneva. The old German language name Olun is no longer used.-History:...
. She exhibited in Aigle, Lausanne
Lausanne
Lausanne is a city in Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland, and is the capital of the canton of Vaud. The seat of the district of Lausanne, the city is situated on the shores of Lake Geneva . It faces the French town of Évian-les-Bains, with the Jura mountains to its north-west...
, Montreux
Montreux
Montreux is a municipality in the district of Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.It is located on Lake Geneva at the foot of the Alps and has a population, , of and nearly 90,000 in the agglomeration.- History :...
, Fribourg, Sion, Porrentruy and in Aubonne near Lausanne. In 1994 Heijermans showed hundreds of oilpaintings, watercolors and etchings in Singapore. Other exhibits were held in The Netherlands, in the Scheveningen (1964), Delft
Delft
Delft is a city and municipality in the province of South Holland , the Netherlands. It is located between Rotterdam and The Hague....
(1970), Amsterdam
Amsterdam
Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...
(1982) and Leiden (1983). The Musée Jenisch
Musée Jenisch
The Musée Jenish is a museum of fine arts and prints at Vevey in Vaud in Switzerland. It was set up on 10 March 1897, thanks to a legacy of 200,000 francs from Fanny Henriette Jenisch , wife of Martin Johan Jenisch, a senator of Hamburg. It was designed in the neo-classical style by the architect...
in Vevey now keeps 120 etchings, lithos and héliogravures, since recent work was added in 2007. The museum for photography Musée de l'Elysée
Musée de l'Elysée
Musée de l'Élysée is a museum on Lausanne, Switzerland, entirely devoted to photography. It is a government supported institution founded in 1985 by Charles-Henri Favrod in an 18th century mansion. The collection of more than 100,000 photographs includes those of colour pioneer Gabriel Lippmann...
in Lausanne conserves 45 photo-etchings since Charles-Henri Favrod personally made his choice of her héliogravures in 1993. In fact she mastered photogravure
Photogravure
Photogravure is an intaglio printmaking or photo-mechanical process whereby a copper plate is coated with a light-sensitive gelatin tissue which had been exposed to a film positive, and then etched, resulting in a high quality intaglio print that can reproduce the detail and continuous tones of a...
and color etching while staying in Lucca
Lucca
Lucca is a city and comune in Tuscany, central Italy, situated on the river Serchio in a fertile plainnear the Tyrrhenian Sea. It is the capital city of the Province of Lucca...
with Luis Camnitzer
Luis Camnitzer
Luis Camnitzer is a German-born Uruguayan artist and academic who resides in the United States. He is a conceptual artist who creates work in a variety of media—including installation, printmaking, drawing, and photography—that breaks down limitations and questions that define the center versus...
and David Finkbeiner, both from New York. The Dutch Museum van Bommel van Dam
Museum van Bommel van Dam
Museum van Bommel van Dam is a Dutch museum of modern art in Venlo, a town in the province of Limburg, The Netherlands. The museum belongs to the German/Dutch cooperation Crossart, a partnership between 7 German museums in Westfalen and 4 Dutch museums in Gelderland and Limburg...
keeps 23 etchings and lithographies printed by herself since 1978 when they were accepted after a vote of the Municipality of the town of Venlo
Venlo
Venlo is a municipality and a city in the southeastern Netherlands, next to the German border. It is situated in the province of Limburg.In 2001, the municipalities of Belfeld and Tegelen were merged into the municipality of Venlo. Tegelen was originally part of the Duchy of Jülich centuries ago,...
. Her graphic work can also be found at the Dominican University
Dominican University
Dominican University may refer to:* Dominican University of California, an independent university of Catholic heritage located 12 miles north of the Golden Gate Bridge in Marin County, California...
, Illinois. In July 2011 the recently restored Musée du Chablais of the Château de la Porte du Scex added 2 oil paintings to their collection of etchings, lithos, héliogravures and woodcuts of which they already conserved 80 artist proofs and handprinted originals.
Publications
- 1960 Bartholomeus en zijn dierenvrienden by Hubertine Heijermans, 's-Gravenhage ; Rotterdam : Nijgh & Van Ditmar (Dutch)
- 2009 ‘Parcours d’une artiste-peintre’ text by P.A.Genillard, ISBN 2-9700240-4-7 (French)
- 2010 ‘Monnaz Survol pittoresque d’un village dans la période 1961-1971, by Hubertine Heijermans, ISBN 978-2-8399-0683-8 (French)
- 2010 ‘Hubertine Heijermans Parcours d’une artiste peintre II’, by Hubertine Heijermans, ISBN 978-2-8399-0715-6 (French and English)