About Geesje Mesdag-van Calcar
Lived 1850 – 1936 (aged 85). Geesje Mesdag-van Calcar was a Dutch painter and art collector.
Geesje Mesdag-van Calcar (1850–1936) was a Dutch painter. She is known for her landscape, flower, and genre paintings.
Biography Mesdag-van Calcar was born 2 July 1850 in Hoogezand. She attended the Academie Minerva in Groningen She also studied with Paul Gabriël in Paris.
She married fellow painter Taco Mesdag (1829–1902) and the couple settled in The Hague. Both were members of the Pulchri Studio and also associated with the Hague School. She received an honorable mention at the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1889.
After her husband's death in 1902, Mesdag-van Calcar moved to Kortenhoef, where she built a studio. Her work from that time was in an Impressionistic style.
Hugenholtz died 4 April 1934 in The Hague.
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Dutch painter (1850-1936)
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Geesje Mesdag-van Calcar was born on 2 July 1850 in Hoogezand.
When did Geesje Mesdag-van Calcar die?
Geesje Mesdag-van Calcar died on 12 April 1936 in Scheveningen.
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Geesje Mesdag-van Calcar was a painter and art collector.
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Geesje Mesdag-van Calcar was Dutch.
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