Rosa "Ro" Catherina Mogendorff (1907–1969) was a

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artist.

Biography

Mogendorff was born on 21 June 1907 in

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. She had a twin sister Isidora Mogendorff Frederika (1907-1985). A third sister, Elize Marianna (Liesje), was born in 1919. Mogendorff studied at the ''

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'' (State Academy of Fine Arts). Her teachers included Johannes Hendricus Jurres and Martin Monnickendam. In 1929 she was the recipient of the Cohen Godschalk Prize. Around that time she opened a studio in Amsterdam with fellow artist

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and worked with

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. Mogendorff's work was included in the 1939 exhibition and sale ''

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'' (Our Art of Today) at the

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in Amsterdam. From 1942 through 1947 Mogendorff was in hiding from the World War II occupying forces. Her family was split apart. After her father's death in Harleem, Mogendorff went there to take care of her mother. She returned to Amsterdam with her mother. In 1943 her sister, Elize, a member of the

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, died from a gunshot wound in the course of a murder-suicide by fellow resistance member Ernst Carl Frederik ten Haaf. After the war Mogendorff continued to draw and paint, exhibiting frequently with ''Nederlandse Kring van Tekenaars'' (Dutch Circle of Drafters). In 1957 she received the ''Prix de la Critique'' from the Association Internationale des Critiques d'Art and in 1967 she was made a knight of the

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. Mogendorff was a member of the ''

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'', ''De Brug'' (The Bridge), ''Federatie van Verenigingen van Beroeps Beeldende Kunstenaars'' (Federation of Associations of Professional Visual Artists), and the ''Nederlandse Kring van Tekenaars'' . Mogendorff died on 27 October 1969 in the

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References

External links

images of Mogendorff's work
on her website
photographic portrait of Mogendorff
by Paul Citroen in the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Mogendorff, Ro 1907 births 1969 deaths Artists from Amsterdam 20th-century Dutch women artists