Adrienne van rees Dutilh

Adrienne (Adya) van Rees-Dutilh (7 June 1876 – 11 August 1959) was a Dutch textile artist, painter and graphic artist. She was part of the Dada movement in Zürich and was one of the early signatories of the first Berlin Dada manifesto.

Biography Rees-Dutilh née Dutilh was born on 7 June 1876 in Rotterdam, Netherlands. She studied drawing with Barbara Elisabeth van Houten in The Hague and went on to study with Ernest Blanc-Garin at his workshop in Brussels. In 1909 she married fellow artist Otto van Rees with whom she had three children. The couple lived the Montmartre area of Paris along with a group of artist known as Bateau-Lavoir. Around this time Rees-Dutilh began focusing on creating abstract tapestries and embroidery.

Rees-Dutilh converted to Catholicism in 1914 and religion became a subject of her later art. In 1918 she signed the Berlin Dada manifesto.