Lizzy Ansingh
Maria Elisabeth Georgina Lizzy Ansingh was a Dutch painter. She belonged to a group of female postimpressionist painters influenced by the Amsterdam Impressionism movement called the Amsterdamse Joffers. She was also a member of the Amsterdam art circles Arti et Amicitiae and Sint Lucas. She died in Amsterdam onDecember 1959.
Lizzy Ansingh was born in Utrecht. She was the daughter of Edzard Willem Ansingh, a pharmacist, and the painter Clara Theresia Schwartze. She was the granddaughter of Johann Georg Schwartze, also a painter, and a niece of the painter Thrse Schwartze. It was her aunt Thrse Schwartze who gave Lizzy her first lessons in drawing. Lizzy lived with her aunt foryears. She encouraged her niece to develop her artistic career and introduced her to numerous other painters, among others French impressionists and the famous Dutch painters George Hendrik Breitner, Piet Mondriaan and Simon Maris.
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