"... an artist who made a major contribution to the development of Dutch modern art in the early 20th century. Like Mondrian, Van Heemskerck progressed towards abstract art via Luminism and Cubism. However, research conducted over the last 3 years shows that her distinctive paintings and drawings were a mere prelude to the stained glass windows that she created at the end of her life. Some of these windows were previously unknown and a number have been restored especially for this exhibition. Jacoba van Heemskerck trained initially at the Royal Academy in The Hague, later with painter Hart Nibbrig and finally, as Picasso, Munch and Matisse had done, at the studio of Eugène Carrière in Paris. It was there that – most unusually for a woman of her day – she became involved with the latest developments in modern art. Following this formative period in Paris, she was to spend the rest of her life working in The Hague and in Domburg, where she and her life-time companion Marie Tak van Poortvliet built a house and had extensive contact with the Dutch avant-garde. In the course of this period, Tak assembled an impressive artcollection, including works by artists such as Piet Mondrian, Franz Marc, Fernand Léger and Wassily Kandinsky (whose work she introduced to the Netherlands). Jacoba van Heemskerk’s artistic evolution was very similar to that of Mondrian: both artists were influenced around 1910 by modern movements like Luminism and Cubism, worked together in Domburg and more than once they painted the same subject. Both were inspired by the anthro-posophical ideas of Rudolf Steiner. The result was a visual idiom making extensive use of contrasts: vivid versus muted colours, lines versus planes, horizontals versus verticals. But whereas Mondrian’s artistic approach eventually became austerely geometrical, Van Heemskerck’s developed as a result of a variety of influences (including anthroposophy) into..." http://www.gemeentemuseum.nl/en/exhibitions/jacoba-van-heemskerck undefined

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