Suze Slager-Velsen (1883-1964) was a
Dutch painter.
Biography
Slager-Velsen née Velsen was born on 6 November 1883 in
Oostburg. She studied at the ''
Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten'' (Academy of Visual Arts) in Rotterdam. Her teachers included , Dirk Herman Michaël Harting. She was married to fellow artist (1871-1938) with whom she had one child.
Her work was included in the 1939 exhibition and sale ''
Onze Kunst van Heden
Onze Kunst van Heden (Contemporary Artists/Our Art of Today) was an exhibition held in the winter of 1939 through 1940 at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Due to the threat of invasion in the years leading up to World War II, the Netherlands' go ...
'' (Our Art of Today) at the
Rijksmuseum
The Rijksmuseum () is the national museum of the Netherlands dedicated to Dutch arts and history and is located in Amsterdam. The museum is located at the Museum Square in the borough of Amsterdam South, close to the Van Gogh Museum, the St ...
in Amsterdam.
She was a member of the
Arti et Amicitiae
Arti et Amicitiae (lat .: For Art and Friendship) is a Dutch artist's society founded in 1839, and located on the Rokin in Amsterdam. The Society (also called Arti for short) has played a key role in the Netherlands art scene and in particular i ...
and the .
Slager-Velsen died on 25 December 1964 in
's-Hertogenbosch
s-Hertogenbosch (), colloquially known as Den Bosch (), is a city and municipality in the Netherlands with a population of 157,486. It is the capital of the province of North Brabant and its fourth largest by population. The city is south of th ...
.
Legacy
Suze Bergé-Slager, Slager-Velsen's daughter, established the
Museum Slager
Museum Slager is an art museum in 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, dedicated to the work of eight local painters from three generations of the Slager family. Behind the distinguished façade of the building there is a collection of paintings, drawi ...
in 's-Hertogenbosch. The museum houses works of several generations of Slagers.
References
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1883 births
1964 deaths
20th-century Dutch women artists