Mies Boissevain-van Lennep

Dutch resistance fighter (1896-1965) · Artists · Died at 68

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Adrienne Minette (Mies) Boissevain-van Lennep was a Dutch feminist who was active in the Resistance before being arrested by the Nazis and sent to the Herzogenbusch concentration camp. After the war, she promoted the idea of the national liberation skirt, and some of these unusual skirts are now in Dutch museums.

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Mies Boissevain during her detention in WWII

A national liberation skirt with a National Institute registration stamp, 1947. This skirt is embroidered with the dates of successive Liberation Day celebrations at which it was worn.

Artists born in the 1890s 6

Emery Kelen38.8

Jorma Gallen-Kallela38.6 Alfred Aberdam38.8 Edith Barakovich38.6 Tina Bauer-Pezellen38.8

Károly Patkó38.6

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Artists born in the 1890s 6

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