Jeanne Bieruma Oosting (1898-1994)

Jeanne BIERUMA OOSTING (Leeuwarden 1898 - Almen 1994)

Biography/Education

Jeanne Bieruma Oosting started drawing at a young age. She received her first painting lessons at the age of sixteen in Lochem, where she mainly learned to work with oil paint. After this she was taught by Paul Bodifée in Deventer, with whom she went into nature to paint. At a boarding school in Bloemendaal she learned watercolor painting from Frits Grabijn. Oosting was educated in Haarlem at the School of Arts and Crafts and in The Hague at the Royal Academy of Art. In 1929 she moved to the artists' Valhalla Paris for eleven years, where she learned everything about printing techniques.

Exhibitions and prizes

Oosting has been a member of several artist circles and has won many awards for her work, including a medal at the Paris World's Fair in 1937 and an Arti medal in 1971. Her work has been exhibited on a worldwide scale and has a place in the collections of renowned museums, such as the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. Since 1970, the Jeanne Oosting Prize has been awarded annually to two figurative painters. Until her death, Oosting lived at Oosterpark in Amsterdam, where a plaque has been placed in memory of her name.