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Willemina Jacoba van Gogh (March 16, 1862 - May 17, 1941) was the youngest sister of the artist Vincent van Gogh and the art dealer Theo van Gogh.

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[edit] Biography

Soziales Engagement

wirkt mit im Organisationskomitee der "National exhibition of women's work" (Nationale Tentoonstelling van Vrouwenarbeid), 1898; funds raised with this exhibition - 20.000 Dutch Guilders - served to establish a National bureau for women's work

[edit] "Dementia praecox"

December 4, 1902, Wil was interned and later transferred to House Veldwijk, a psychiatric institution at Ermelo. The dignosis on which this mesure was based - dementia praecox - was in these years equal to a sentence of death.

[edit] Rehabilitation

Whether Wil was ill or not

[edit] Resources

[edit] Notes

[edit] References

  • Anonymous (initialled "H.H.H." and "W.F.d.C.H."): Van Gogh, 's-Gravenhage, Nederland's Patriciaat 50, 1964, pp. 171-183
  • Berger, Renate: Willemina Jacoba van Gogh (1862-1941): "Du bist sehr tapfer, liebe Schwester", in: Schwestern berühmter Männer. Zwölf biographische Porträts, ed. Luise F. Pusch, Insel, Frankfurt am Main, 1985, pp. 453-485 ISBN 3-458-32496-8

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