Saskia Weishut Snapper - Amsterdamse textielkunstenares - gemengde techniek "Huisjes" - Sold

• Saskia Weishut-Snapper (born 5 August 1938 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch textile artist.

Biography Weishut-Snapper grew up in Bergen, province of North Holland. Her parents were active within the artists' colony there: mother Mies Bloch was a painter and illustrator, best known for her cross-stitch patterns, and her father was Rein Snapper, a painter, illustrator and woodcutter.
Work Weishut-Snapper turned to textile art in 1970. She created mixed media scenes, somewhere between painting and quilting, and calls her works 'peintisseries'. The subjects of her art are often textile landscapes, fantasy buildings, abstract compositions and themes based on Jewish tradition. She usually exhibits in the Netherlands. She also showed her paintings in Belgium, Germany, Greece, Japan, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States. Works by Weishut-Snapper can be viewed in art galleries, museums, churches and synagogues and are included in art books. On her eightieth birthday she appeared on Dutch television in a short documentary in the series 'Naches'.