Emmy Andriesse

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.

[5] Via this association Andriesse was involved in organizing the photo exhibition foto '37 in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, tohgether with Carel Blazer and Cas Oorthuys.

She participated in the group show Photo '48 and in 1952, together with Carel Blazer [nl], Eva Besnyö and Cas Oorthuys, the exhibition Photographie, both in Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum.

[2] Edward Steichen chose her 1947 portrait of a staid and elderly Dutch couple for the section 'we two form a multitude'[7] in the Museum of Modern Art world-touring The Family of Man that was seen by an audience of 9 million.

[1] Andriesse's last commission, the book The World of Van Gogh - published posthumously in 1953 - was not yet complete when she became ill and after a long battle with cancer, died at the age of 39.

Boy with pan, by Emmy Andriesse