Sonja Dwinger - Old man

Sonja Dwinger, 1925–2012 Amsterdam. Sonja was born in Amsterdam in the Spaarndammerbuurt. Both parents were Jewish. From 1942, the entire family went into hiding, leaving everything behind, albeit each in a different location for safety. From childhood, Sonja was very skilled at drawing in pencil and charcoal, but her true strength lay in watercolor. Sonja continued taking drawing lessons until a late age, under, among others, Jan van Tongeren and Jos Rovers. For years, she also participated in the courses of the Kokoschka Sommerakademie in Salzburg, where she was taught by Kurt Löb and the Slovenian painter Joze Ciuha. Exhibitions From 1969 onwards, she organized many exhibitions in various galleries and with Sint Lucas at the Stedelijk Museum, but also at Artis, the Concertgebouw, the Kattenkabinet in Amsterdam, and the Singer Museum in Laren. To celebrate her 80th birthday, a retrospective exhibition was held at the Jan van der Togt Museum in Amstelveen. Her work is included in dozens of private collections, but is also represented in the Print Cabinet of the Rijksmuseum (see Rijksmuseum.nl/collectie) and in the collections of Teylers Museum Haarlem, ING Bank, the Netherlands Theatre Institute, and the Kattenkabinet, among others.