Cornelis Hoogendijk
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Cornelis Hoogendijk | |
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 Portrait of Cornelis Hoogendijk in 17th-century costume for bal masqué, circa 1894 | |
| Born | 1866 |
| Died | 1911 (aged 44–45) |
Cornelis Hoogendijk (1866 – 1911) was a Dutch art collector.
Hoogendijk was born in Krimpen aan den IJssel as the third of six children, and studied law at Leiden University before entering the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam in 1891.[1] One older brother had died before he was born, and his mother died a year after his youngest sister Riet was born in 1874.[2] The death of his remaining older brother when he was only nine left a lasting impression, and when his father died in 1883, Cornelis became the head of the family at age 17.[2] In 1885 his sister Wilhelmina married the lawyer Ferdinand Kranenburg and moved to Amsterdam. The two younger sisters moved with him to The Hague after he purchased 365 Bezuidenhoutseweg in 1898 and old catalogs reflect he began to purchase art in 1889.[2] In the years 1890-1899 he built up an enormous collection of paintings, financed with the fortune he had inherited, as well as income from mortgages he had sold locally.[2] Of his three sisters, Riet shared his interest in art and she also entered the Rijksakademie in 1889, where she became a painter and met her future husband, the painter Gerrit Willem van Blaaderen, whom she married in 1905. Through their common interest, the Hoogendijk collection became well known by the turn of the century, but suffered a severe setback when Cornelis experienced a psychosis in 1900 during a trip to Paris, where he had an apartment at 59 rue Blanche.[2]
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