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    Portrait of Esther de Boer - Van Rijk

    Person depicted Esther de Boer - Van Rijk (1853-1937)
    Role Kniertje in Op hoop van zegen (Herman Heijermans)
    Artist Foeke Kamstra (1870-1950)
    Medium Oil on canvas
    Year Between 1925 and 1937

    With four portraits and a bust, Esther de Boer - van Rijk is a mainstay of our portrait gallery. That is no surprise, because Esther was a significant and remarkable actor. A Jewish actor from Rotterdam, she came to Amsterdam with her husband, a musician, and grew into a great performer and theatre director. Her collaboration with Herman Heijermans gave her roles in which she could draw on her socially engaged background. The portraits by Eduard Frankfort and Foeke Kamstra show her claim to fame: Kniertje, in Op hoop van zegen. The master forger Han van Meegeren also portrayed her, as Eva Bonheur (another play by Heijermans), and Gerrit van der Veen made the kindly little statuette.

    Geschilderd portret van een oudere vrouw met een witte kap en omslagdoek, omhoogkijkend; achter haar doemt in het donker een tweede, gesluierde figuur op. Op het plaatje onder de lijst: Esther de Boer-van Rijk als Kniertje in Op hoop van zegen van Herman Heyermans, door Foeke Kamstra.
    © Collectie Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam

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