Ans Wortel Biography | Poet

Ans (Anna Maria) Wortel (Alkmaar (Netherlands), 18 Octobre 1929 - Hilvarenbeek (Netherlands), 4 Decembre 1996) was a Dutch painter, a poet and a writer. She made gouaches and oilpaintings, aquarels, drawings, collages, lithographies, etchings, sculptures and glass sculptures. She was an autodidact and has wun the first prize at the biënalle of Paris in 1963. She was one of the leading female artists of postwar Dutch modern art.