Hendrika van Gelder

Hendrika Van Gelder was a Dutch painter known for portraits and still life paintings.

Biography

van Gelder was born on 7 May 1870 in Amsterdam. She studied with Henriëtte Asscher, Eduard Frankfort, and. She was a member of the ', De Independents, and Arti et Amicitiae. Around 1933 she moved into an artist studio in the Zomerdijkstraat.
Her work was included in the 1939 exhibition and sale Onze Kunst van Heden'' at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
In 1943 van Gelder was deported to Sobibor, Poland where she died on 7 May 1943 in the Sobibor extermination camp.