Helena Elisabeth Goudeket, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Helena Elisabeth Goudeket

Dutch painter and illustrator

Date of Birth: 10-Jan-1910

Place of Birth: Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 09-Apr-1943

Profession: illustrator, painter

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Helena Elisabeth Goudeket

  • Helena (Lenie) Elisabeth Goudeket (1910 – 1943) was a Dutch painter and illustrator. Goudeket was born in Amsterdam as the daughter of the lawyer Isaäc Goudeket and Catharina Spreekmeester, who lived on the Nicolaas Witsenkade 5.
  • She was educated at the Instituut voor Kunstnijverheidsonderwijs in Amsterdam and the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten where she was a pupil of Johannes Hendricus Jurres and Hendrik Jan Wolter.
  • She became a member of the Vereniging Sint Lucas in Amsterdam and Kunst Zij Ons Doel in Haarlem.
  • Like others influenced by the Amsterdamse Joffers she is considered a member of the "Jonge Amsterdamse Joffers".
  • She was awarded the Willink van Collenprijs in 1937.
  • Goudeket's works can be found in the collections of surviving family members, the Joods Historisch Museum and the Amsterdam city archives. Goudekat married Johan Gerard van Hessen on 30 December 1936 in Amsterdam, but divorced him on 24 April 1940, just before the Battle of the Netherlands began the German occupation.
  • On 9 June 1940 she moved to Heemstede to live with her sister Rebecca and set up a workshop in her garage on Molenlaan 3.
  • A year later she returned to Amsterdam, presumably because she, Rebecca and other family members were forced into hiding.
  • Rebecca survived the war, but Lenie, her sister Florence (a sculptor in Heemstede), and Florence's one year old son, were killed with their parents in Sobibór extermination camp.
  • Her work was exhibited as part of the exhibition "Rebel, mijn hart" in 1995.
  • Her name is one of the 162 engraved on the Jewish memorial monument in Heemstede.

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