Grada Hermina Marius

Grada Hermina Marius
Portrait by H.J. Haverman
Born	7 June 1854 Hengelo
Died	8 November 1919 The Hague
Nationality	Kingdom of the Netherlands

Grada Hermina Marius or G.H. Marius (1854 – 1919) was a Dutch writer and painter.

Marius was born in Hengelo but was trained under Jan Striening (1827-1903) in Deventer.^[1] She then moved to Amsterdam where she trained under August Allebé.^[1] In 1883 she settled in the Hague, where she became an art critic as well as continuing to draw and paint as a member of Pulchri Studio. She lived with her brother's family, and after he died in 1903 she stayed in the house with his surviving family and earned a living with her books, which were well received.

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  The Wagoneer
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  1907 calendar of Jan Steen paintings

Marius died in The Hague.

Works

• 1899 John Ruskin. Een inleiding tot zijn werken.
• 1903 De Hollandsche schilderkunst in de negentiende eeuw.
• 1905 Rembrandt. Een boek voor jong Holland.
• 1906 Jan Steen. Zijn leven en zijne kunst. (1907 calendar)
• 1906 Die holländische Malerei im neunzehnten Jahrhunderts (translated into German from her 1903 book).
• 1908 Dutch painting in the nineteenth century (translated into English from her 1903 book).
• 1909 Het Museum Mesdag en zijne Stichters. Met P.A.M. Boele van Hensbroek.
• 1910 De schilderkunst der 19e eeuw. Vertaling van een boek van Léonce Bénédite.
• 1912 Jac. van Looy [serie Hollandsche schilders van dezen tijd]
• 1917 Johannes Bosboom. Met Wilhelm Martin.
• 1920 De Hollandsche schilderkunst in de negentiende eeuw. second edition of her 1903 book in Dutch, with a foreword by W. Martin.

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