Anna Maria Kruijff
Dutch, 1870-1946
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Anna Maria Kruijff was a Dutch painter and illustrator.
Kruijff was a daughter of florist Jan Hermanus Godelief Kruijff and Johanna Cornelia Apollonia Klippink. She was taught by Edouard Taurel and was educated at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. She was also a pupil of Maurits van der Valk and received instructions from George Hendrik Breitner. She painted and drew landscapes, animals, portraits and picture books. She was also active as a sculptor. She was a member of Arti et Amicitiae and the association of visual artists Laren-Blaricum, with which she also exhibited.
Kruijff married civil servant Eduard Willem Stork in 1896. They divorced in 1913, after which she married the lawyer Wouter Marius van de Werk (1875-1969), who also painted. They settled in the painting village of Laren. Afterwards she lived with her husband in Amsterdam and France, among other places, until they returned to Laren where she died in 1946.
