Aletta Ruijsch

Aletta Ruijsch studied at Royal Academy of Art and Willem de Kooning Academy. Training under Eugène Joors is recorded. Nelly Goedewaagen is recorded as having studied under Aletta Ruijsch. Work by Aletta Ruijsch is recorded in the collections of Royal Collections of the Netherlands and Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar.

• Name — Aletta Ruijsch • Born — 6 August 1860 • Birthplace — Den Helder, Netherlands • Died — 20 November 1930 • Place of death — The Hague, Netherlands • Education — Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten, Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten (Rotterdam) • Field — Painting • Spouse — Hendrik Otto van Thol • Illustration — Interieur met boerenfamilie Aletta Ruijsch or Aletta van Thol-Ruijsch (1860–1930) was a Dutch painter.

Ruijsch was born on 6 August 1860 in Den Helder, Netherlands. She studied at the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten (Royal Academy of Art, The Hague) and the Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten, (Academy of Visual Arts, Rotterdam). Her teachers included Eugène Joors. Her students included Nelly Goedewaagen. In 1899 she married fellow artist Hendrik Otto van Thol. She was a member of the Pulchri Studio in The Hague, the Utrecht artist society Kunstliefde, the Vereeniging Sint Lucas Amsterdam (Amsterdam Artists Association of Sint Lucas) and the Arti et Amicitiae artist's society. She exhibited her work at the 1900 Paris Exposition. Ruijsch died on 20 November 1930, in The Hague.