Anna Kernkamp
Anna "Anny" Kernkamp (18 June 1868 – 9 February 1947) was a Belgian artist.
Also recorded as Anna Catharina Kernkamp-Schenck · Anny Kernkamp
Anna Kernkamp

G. Raynaud, Antwerp · foto in familiebezit · Public domain
- Name
- Anna Kernkamp
- Born
- 18 June 1868
- Birthplace
- Antwerp, Belgium
- Died
- 9 February 1947
- Place of death
- Brasschaat, Belgium
- Field
- Painting
- Nationality
- Belgium
- Occupation
- painter
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Anna "Anny" Kernkamp (18 June 1868 – 9 February 1947) was a Belgian artist.
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Anna Kernkamp (1868–1947) was a Belgian painter. Born in Antwerp, the painter died in Brasschaat. Anna Kernkamp worked in Antwerp. Works by the painter are held at Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp.
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• Name — Anna Kernkamp • Other Names — Anna Catharina Kernkamp-Schenck • Born — 18 June 1868 • Birthplace — Antwerp, Belgium • Died — 9 February 1947 • Place of death — Brasschaat, Belgium • Field — Painting
Biography
Biography
Anna was born on 18 June 1868 in Antwerp as Anna Catharina Schenck. There she studied with the painter Henri Rul. She went on to study with Ernest Blanc-Garin in Brussels. In 1887 she married Johann Heinrich (Henri) Kernkamp, from Edam, Netherlands. She started painting after the wedding and thus signed her work "Anny Kernkamp". As a result of her painting Anna suffered from an eye disease, which forced her to stop painting around 1913. She died on 9 February 1947 in Brasschaat.
Work
Work
Anna Kernkamp painted still lifes and landscapes in an Impressionistic style. She was a member of the Mechelen artist association "De Distel". She described her work as "open air impressionism". During her life, Anna exhibited several times, a.o. in Liège (1902), Antwerp (1904, 1908) and Athens (1904, where she received an international prize).
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Gallery
• Illustration — Meandering stream in the woods • Illustration — St. Anthony Church in Antwerp
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1868
Anna Kernkamp was born in 1868 at Antwerp.
1947
Anna Kernkamp died in 1947 at Brasschaat.
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- 1.Anna Catharina Kernkamp - Biography. AskArt.
- 2.Anna Kernkamp. RKD.
- 3.P.M. Kernkamp, Hollandgänger. The Kernkamp family in Holland, in: De Nederlandsche Leeuw jg. 129 (2012), p. 117-126.
- 4.Anny Kernkamp. Frauendatenbank fembio.org.
- 5.Kernkamp, Anny or Anna. Benezit Dictionary of Artists.
- 6.Kernkamp, Anna. Dictionnaire des Peintres belges.
- 7.Anna Kernkamp in publiek domein. Rosa - Kenniscentrum voor gender en feminisme.
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