Emmy Andriesse
| Emmy Andriesse | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Emmy Eugenie Andriesse 14 January 1914 The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands |
| Died | 20 February 1953 (aged 39) Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands |
| Cause of death | Cancer |
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Occupation | Photographer |
| Spouse(s) | Dick Elffers |
Emmy Eugenie Andriesse (14 January 1914, The Hague - 20 February 1953, Amsterdam) was a Dutch photographer best known for her work with the Underground Camera group (De Ondergedoken Camera) during World War II.
Emmy Andriesse was the only child of liberal Jews Abraham Andriesse, textile company representative, and Else Fuld. At age fifteen, she lost her mother, and since her father traveled internationally for work, she was raised by several aunts.
From 1932 to 1937, after high school, Andriesse studied advertising design at the Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague founded in 1929 by designer Gerrit Kiljan. At the academy she belonged to a group of students around left-wing designer Paul Schuitema. She attended an experimental class taught by Paul Schuitema and Gerrit Kiljan, where she learnt photography and the use of photographs in posters, advertising and newspaper articles.
In June 1941 Andriesse married graphic designer and visual artist Dick Elffers (with whom she had two sons, one who died young), but as a Jew during the Nazi occupation Andriesse was no longer able to publish and she was forced into hiding. At the end of 1944, with the assistance of the anthropologist Arie Froe she forged an identity card and re-engaged in everyday life, joining a group of photographers, including Cas Oorthuys and Charles Breijer, working clandestinely as De Ondergedoken Camera. The photos that Andriesse made under very difficult conditions of famine in Amsterdam, include Boy with pan, The Gravedigger and Kattenburg Children are documents of hunger, poverty and misery during the occupation in the "winter of hunger" of 1944-1945.
Volendam July 1945
The Love Letter (Vermeer)
(Rijksmuseum July 1945)
The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Deijman back in the Rijksmuseum
(July 1945)
After the war, she became a fashion photographer and was an associate and mentor of Ed van der Elsken. She participated in the group show Photo '48 and in 1952, together with Carel Blazer, Eva Besnyö and Cas Oorthuys, the exhibition Photographie, both in Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum. Her work appeared in Edward Steichen's 1951 The Family of Man and recently (October 2006-January 2007) she was included in a display of Twentieth Century European photography at the Barbican Art Gallery, London.
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