Marie Dagnelie - French landscape - ca.1964

Sheet size 34x50 cm.
Framed behind a passepartout and plexiglass, in a wooden frame.

Marie (nickname ''Riet'') Dagnelie was born on February 4, 1918 in Den Helder. In Amsterdam she was a student at the Rijksacademie and met the composer Simeon ten Holt there during the war years, whom she also married and had two children with. She painted, drew and watercolored excellent portraits (especially children's portraits), figure representations, impressionistic landscapes (forest and dunes), city and harbor views in a figurative style. In France she made watercolors of the ever fascinating and changing French landscape, from the Breton coast to Provence. During her time at the academy she also made murals, in addition she designed book covers, book or dust jackets of mainly children's books. She herself said about her work in 1981: ''It was always the natural that I sought in my subjects and in my way of working. Probably as a reaction to all the mechanical violence that is coming our way, the pure and untouched has become increasingly important to me'”. Riet Dagnelie died on 6 April 1984 in Amerongen. Source: Scheen 1969/1970.