The Lovers, Jeanne Bieruma Oosting, 1944

lithography, h 470mm × w 643mm More details
© C.M.R. van Verschuer

The artist Jeanne Bieruma Oosting had an intense love affair with the author Netty Wind (pseudonym A.H. Nijhoff) in 1943. They planned to write a book together about their relationship: Wind would provide the text and Bieruma Oosting the illustrations. The book never materialised, but the lithographs have survived. A dreamy series of images of tenderness, passion, and longing in an imaginary landscape.