Phemia Molkenboer
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Euphemia Hendrika Maria (Phemia) Molkenboer (Weesp, 10 September 1883 – Amsterdam, 10 May 1940) was a Dutch ceramist, furniture designer, draughtswoman and art teacher.[1]
Molkenboer was born in Weesp in 1883, one of fourteen children of the sculptor and painter Willem Molkenboer and Maria Cecilia Petronella Johanna Derkinderen.[2] She was a sister of the painters Antoon Molkenboer and Theo Molkenboer[3] and of the literary scientist Bernard Molkenboer.[4]
She attended the Rijksnormaalschool voor Teekenonderwijzers, an art school founded by her father, from 1900 to 1905, followed by a year at the Rijksakademie art school.[5] She became an art teacher and worked as one at least until 1930.[1] Between 1916 and 1920 she was involved with the magazine Jong Leven and she became a member and later secretary of the catholic art society Kunstkring de Violier in Amsterdam.[1][6]
