Henriëtte Pessers

Henriëtte Pessers (1899-1986) was a Dutch artist who painted in the Expressionist style.[1]

Henriëtte Pessers
self portrait, 1939
Born
Henriëtte Anna Maria Pessers

(1899-01-03)3 January 1899
Tilburg, Netherlands
Died22 May 1986(1986-05-22) (aged 87)
Heeze, Netherlands
NationalityDutch
Other namesHenriëtte Jansen-Pessers
Known forPainting

Biography

Pessers was born on 3 January 1899 in Tilburg. She attended the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. Her teachers included Gustave De Smet, Jan van Delft, Antoon Derkinderen, Gerard Jacobs [nl], Constant Permeke, Henri Van Haelen, and Albert Verschuuren [nl].[2] Her work was included in the 1939 exhibition and sale Onze Kunst van Heden (Our Art of Today) at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.[3] In 1941 she married P.M.C. Jansen.[2]

Pessers died on 22 May 1986 in Heeze.[4] Her work is in the Noordbrabants Museum and the Van Abbemuseum.[1]

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