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19.2.1877 Born in Racibórz (Ratibor), SL (PL)
The innovative style of this highly individual and self-willed German artist, who adopted The Netherlands as her mother country after her marriage to the Dutch artist Samuel ("Mommie") Schwarz, has long thrilled lovers of Modernist painting. Her willful personality was also to be the cause of her early death. In 1942, during the German occupation of The Netherlands, she refused, despite the pleas of friends and family either to go into hiding or to wear the Jewish star required by the Anti-Jewish laws imposed by the occupier. She and her husband were arrested in November of that year and were killed in Auschwitz within the month.
Before Else Berg came to The Netherlands in 1911, she had already spent a very fruitful period living and working in Berlin and Paris from 1900 to 1910. Her time in Paris, above all, led her to become intimately acquainted with Cubism. Like the French artist Le Fauconnier, who also chose to make The Netherlands his home, Else Berg was to have a lasting influence on a large number of Dutch artists, particularly those who were living and working in Bergen in the period 1914-1916, such as Leo Gestel. Together with her husband, Leo Gestel and his patron Boendermaker, who also painted, she spent a brief period in Mallorca in 1914. The pieces which she, Gestel and Schwarz painted there, before having to make a hurried return to The Netherlands when the First World War broke out, are still regarded as among the high points of Dutch Cubism.
The couple moved to Amsterdam in 1916, where their house was a meeting point for avant-garde artists, largely as result of their very active role in the organizing committee of the "Hollandsche Kunstenaarskring" (Dutch Artist’s Circle).
19.11.1942 Died in Oświęcim (KZ Auschwitz) (PL)
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Public exhibitions 1
Group shows 1
2007
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| De Bewijzen van het Reizen - de Bergense School op reis in de jaren twintig. - Museum Kranenburgh, Bergen NH |
| Dealer Directory 1 |
Netherlands
| | Paol & Co. Fine Art, Maastricht
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Public collections 5
Netherlands
| | Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam
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| | Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem
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