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Caroline Anne Freiin de Westenholz (London, 1954) is an Anglo-Dutch art historian and writer. She is the founder of the Louis Couperus Museum in The Hague.
Caroline de Westenholz was born in London in 1954. She is the daughter of Albert Friedrich Paul Freiherr von Westenholz (1921-2011) [1] and Elisabeth Henriette van Hasselt (1927-2014). [2] In 1960, her mother remarried Albert Vogel jr. (1924-1982), a Dutch solo-actor who recited literature on stage the world over. He became famous with his literary one man show about Louis Couperus. In 1973, he published a biography of this author. Caroline's mother was Vogel's fourth wife. [3] Albert Vogel also owned an avant garde art gallery, Orez International Gallery (from 1971 called Ornis), which was located at 17, Javastraat, The Hague.
De Westenholz studied history of art at the University of Leiden and received her doctorate on a dissertation about her "step grandfather" Albert Vogel sr. (1874-1933), who also was a famous solo actor in the Netherlands.
In 1996, De Westenholz became known to the public when she founded the Louis Couperus Museum. It was established in what used to be her stepfather's art gallery. Ever since, the museum has organized many exhibitions. As off 1995, she is the chair of the museum foundation.
In 1985, De Westenholz travelled back to London to become the first European employee of MTV Europe. Later, she co-organized a number of exhibitions about Dutch art in England, one of which took place during the William and Mary celebration year. As off 1992, she continued to work as a free-lance art historian en writer in Monaco but returned to London a few years later.
In 1988 she married Peter Nathaniel de Bruce ffrench-Hodges (1935-2017), who during his working life was Head of Overseas Press with the British Tourist Authority (now Visit Britain) and a cookery book author. She lives in London and the Hague.
On 18 June 2013 she received a Zilveren Anjer (Silver Carnation, the equivalent of a British Companion of Honour) from former Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands for the founding and upkeep of the Louis Couperus Museum. [4] The next year, the Council of the city of The Hague awarded her the Victorine Hefting prize, an award for women who have contributed to the culture of this town. In 2022 she was knighted (Knight in the Order of Oranje-Nassau).
Louis Marie-Anne Couperus was a Dutch novelist and poet. His oeuvre contains a wide variety of genres: lyric poetry, psychological and historical novels, novellas, short stories, fairy tales, feuilletons and sketches. Couperus is considered to be one of the foremost figures in Dutch literature. In 1923, he was awarded the Tollensprijs.
The Hague School is a group of artists who lived and worked in The Hague between 1860 and 1890. Their work was heavily influenced by the realist painters of the French Barbizon school. The painters of the Hague school generally made use of relatively somber colors, which is why the Hague School is sometimes called the Gray School.
Carel Balth was a Dutch artist and curator.
Van Vloten is a Dutch patrician family from Vleuten.
August Allebé was an artist and teacher from the Northern Netherlands. His early paintings were in a romantic style, but in his later work he was an exponent of realism and impressionism. He was a major initiator and promoter of Amsterdam Impressionism, the artist's association St. Lucas, and the movement of the Amsterdamse Joffers. Amsterdam Impressionism – sometimes referred to by art historians as the School of Allebé – was the counterflow to the very strong Hague School in the movement of Dutch Impressionism. As a professor at the Royal Academy of Amsterdam he fostered a cosmopolitan attitude toward art and the promotion and motivation of his students, and provided a significant stimulus to developments in modern art.
The Louis Couperus Museum is a museum located in the Archipelbuurt neighbourhood of The Hague. The museum celebrates the life and work of the Belle Époque writer Louis Couperus.
Jan Hoynck van Papendrecht was a Dutch painter and illustrator, famed for his military art.
Elisabeth Wilhelmina Johanna (Betty) Couperus-Baud, was a Dutch translator. She was the wife of the Dutch writer Louis Couperus (1863–1923).
Albert Vogel was a Dutch officer, teacher and performer.
John Ricus Couperus was a Dutch lawyer, member of the Council of Justice in Padang, member of the High Military Court of the Dutch East Indies and the landheer of Tjikopo. He was also the father of the Dutch writer Louis Couperus and knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion.
A ribbon of poems was the literary debut of Dutch writer Louis Couperus. The collection of poetry A ribbon of poems received a good review by critic J.H. van Hall in the Dutch literary magazine "The Gids"; Van Hall compared Couperus' poetry with those written by Heinrich Heine, Everhardus Johannes Potgieter and Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft; Jan ten Brink, Couperus' teacher and later professor at the University of Leiden drew comparisons with Constantijn Huygens. Not every critic however was that positive; Couperus' debut was also termed "contrived and effeminate".
Orchids, a collection of prose and poetry is a collection of prose and poetry written by Dutch writer Louis Couperus, which was published in 1886. Couperus published his debut, A ribbon of poems in 1886 with publisher J.L. Beijers. The rights to publish Couperus' books were taken over by publisher A. Rössing, who then published the second book of Couperus, Orchids, a collection of prose and poetry. After Rössing filed for bankruptcy in 1890 the rights were taken over by L.J. Veen, who would publish the second edition in 1895. In 1989 Veen would reprint Orchids when Couperus' complete works were published.
Schimmen van schoonheid is a collection of short stories, written by Louis Couperus and published by Van Holkema & Warendorf in 1912. It is not known how many copies were printed for the first edition, but this edition was in any case sold out by 1929. The second edition was published in 1962 by Querido in the so-called Salamander series.
Footsteps of Fate is a novel written by Louis Couperus and published in 1891. Footsteps of Fate was first published in the Dutch magazine "De Gids". In 1891 the novel was translated into English by Clara Bell and published under the title Footsteps of Fate. The first two Dutch editions were published by Elsevier ; the second to eighth editions were published by L. J. Veen, except for the sixth edition, which was published by De samenwerkende Uitgevers. The English translation was published with Heinemann's International Library, under the authority of Edmund Gosse. His attention was drawn to this book by Maarten Maartens.
Barthold Theodoor Willem van Hasselt was a Dutch business executive in the Dutch East Indies and the chief executive of Royal Dutch Shell from 1949 to 1951.
Van Maanen is the name of a Dutch patrician family, originating in the Duchy of Guelders. The family takes its name from the town of Manen, situated south of the city of Ede in the province of Gelderland.
Margaretha Henrica Gerardus Maria Heijmans was a Dutch writer and illustrator of children's literature.
Judith Maria Ten Bosch is a Dutch painter and illustrator.
Johanna Maria Cornelia Bertha Waszklewicz-van Schilfgaarde was a Dutch peace activist and journalist.
Betty Holtrop-van Gelder was a Dutch actress and teacher.
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