Marie "Rie" Cramer (10 October 1887 â€" 16 July 1977) was a Dutch
writer and prolific illustrator of children's literature whose style
is considered iconic for the interwar period. For many years, she was
one of the two main illustrators for a leading Dutch youth magazine,
Zonneschijn (Sunshine). She also wrote plays under the pseudonym Marc
Holman. Some of her work was banned during World War II because it
attacked National Socialism, and she wrote for a leading underground
newspaper during the war.Born in Sukabumi in what was then the Dutch
East Indies, she was as the daughter of Hendrik Cramer, a ship
captain, and Elisabeth Frederica Schenk. She moved to the Netherlands
with her mother and her youngest sister in 1896, where they settled in
Arnhem. Stimulated by her aunt Gesine, an artist, she studied drawing
in Arnhem.In 1904, her father rejoined the family in the Netherlands,
and they moved to The Hague, where Rie studied at the Royal Academy of
Art from 1905 until 1907.In 1913, she married Peter Otten, a lawyer;
they divorced in 1914. In 1922 she married the actor Eduard Rutger
Verkade; they divorced in 1933.[1]
writer and prolific illustrator of children's literature whose style
is considered iconic for the interwar period. For many years, she was
one of the two main illustrators for a leading Dutch youth magazine,
Zonneschijn (Sunshine). She also wrote plays under the pseudonym Marc
Holman. Some of her work was banned during World War II because it
attacked National Socialism, and she wrote for a leading underground
newspaper during the war.Born in Sukabumi in what was then the Dutch
East Indies, she was as the daughter of Hendrik Cramer, a ship
captain, and Elisabeth Frederica Schenk. She moved to the Netherlands
with her mother and her youngest sister in 1896, where they settled in
Arnhem. Stimulated by her aunt Gesine, an artist, she studied drawing
in Arnhem.In 1904, her father rejoined the family in the Netherlands,
and they moved to The Hague, where Rie studied at the Royal Academy of
Art from 1905 until 1907.In 1913, she married Peter Otten, a lawyer;
they divorced in 1914. In 1922 she married the actor Eduard Rutger
Verkade; they divorced in 1933.[1]
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