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On Sale Now. Johanna Van Gogh-Bonger’s unwavering dedication to her brother-in-law’s legacy went beyond just preservation.
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UNSPECIFIED - JUNE 23: Portrait of Johanna Henrika Christiane Nissen (1789-1865), mother of the German composer Johannes Brahms (Hamburg, 1833-Vienna, 1897). Vienna, Gesellschaft Der Musikfreunde (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)
- A Raw and Gentle Touch
- Bliss and Sorrow
- On Her Own Terms
- The First to Truly Understand
- A Fruitful Effort
- The Return
The paintings were beyond classification: vibrant colours applied so thickly they lent the paintings an almost sculptural quality. Trees and landscapes were painted with a raw sensitivity unknown in art at the time. This was clearly the work of a unique mind that had a magical view of the world, an attempt at relating the inner life of what he saw ...
For Jo, it was a period of deep bliss as she was swept up in the cultural exuberance of fin-de-siecle Paris. In 1890, her son was born; he was named Vincent, after his uncle. That year, Vincent van Gogh came to Paris for a visit: Jo, who had only heard of his trouble and turmoil, to her surprise met a man who appeared strong, healthy, and cheerful....
Jo took matters into her own hands, leaving Paris and the flat she had lived in with Theo; what remained were some 400 Van Goghs paintings and hundreds of drawings. She moved back to The Netherlands to run a boarding house but, before leaving, she made contact with painter Émile Bernard, determined to get Vincent’s work known and to organize a solo...
The resistances were plentiful for a young woman who had no viable artistic or business background and still wanted to make herself heard. The voice of a woman like Jo would simply be dismissed on the basis of what she was, not what she was capable of doing. But none of that mattered to her. The room she lived in was filled with Van Gogh paintings,...
Being marginalized herself, she identified with the down-trodden and joined the Dutch Social Democratic Workers Party, appalled at the working conditions of the lower class. In 1901, she remarried, this time with Dutch painter Johan Cohen Gosschalk. And she kept pushing, going from critic to critic, from gallery to gallery, and bringing the word ou...
In 1919, Jo returned to Amsterdam, somewhat disappointed with the lack of appreciation in American critics, but she refused to become bitter. In 1925, she died in the Dutch town of Laren, aged 62. Had it not been for her unwavering strength in the face of adversity, the work of Vincent Van Gogh would be unknown today, and it all goes back to Jo, an...
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Apr 13, 2023 · Johanna Henrica Christiane (Christiane) Brahms formerly Nissen. Born about 4 Jun 1789 in Hamburg, Deutschland. Ancestors. Daughter of Peter Radeloff Nissen and Anna Margaretha von Bergen. Sister of Christina Friederika Nissen. Wife of Johann Jacob Brahms — married 9 Jun 1830 in Hamburg, Deutschland. Mother of Elisabeth Wilhelmine Louise ...
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Johanna Henrika Christiana Nissen married Johann Jakob Brahms and had 5 children. She passed away on 02 Feb 1865 in St Michael's, Slagelse, Vestsjalland, Denmark.
