Mirjam Jacobson

Jacobson was born on 14 July 1887 in Amsterdam. She studied at the Rijksschool voor Kunstnijverheid Amsterdam [nl] (National School for Arts and Crafts Amsterdam) and the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten (State Academy of Fine Arts). Her teachers included Luplau Janssen [da], Johannes Hendricus Jurres, Simon Maris, Willem Retera [nl], and Hendrik Jan Wolter.^[1]

In 1919 she exhibited her work at the Jaarbeurs voor kunstnijverheid (Trade fair for arts and crafts).^[2] In 1932 she married Izzac Cohen Bendiks.^[3] Jacobson's work was included in the 1939 exhibition and sale Onze Kunst van Heden (Our Art of Today) at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.^[4]

Being Jews,^[5] Jacobson and her husband were imprisoned at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Both she and her husband died there before they were able to immigrate to Honduras.^[6] Jacobson died on 8 February 1945 at the age of 57.^[7]

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