Rosa Spanjaard
Rozina “Rosa” Spanjaard
Borne 1866 – 1937 The Hague
Rosa Spanjaard was a Dutch painter and draftsman.
Family
Rosa came from a family of Jewish textile manufacturers from Borne. She was a daughter of David Spanjaard and Dina Prins.
Wedding
She married the lawyer David Spanjaard (1861-1935) in 1892. One daughter was born from this marriage.
Education
Rosa was trained at Kunstoefening, the drawing school in Arnhem, under Jacob Hendrik Geerlings. She later took lessons with the painter Eduard Frankfort in Enschede.
Life and work
Rosa lived and worked in Borne, Enschede, Arnhem (1905), Rozendaal (1919) and from 1920 in The Hague.
Memberships
In The Hague she became a member of the Painters Association ODIS.
Subjects and collections
Spanjaard painted flowers, still lifes and portraits, including a portrait of the poet Hélène Swarth, who is part of the collection of the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag.
The painter died shortly after her seventy-first birthday.
source: wikipedia / rkd