#Betzy Akersloot-Berg (1850-1922)

[bal-bullier]

Betzy Akersloot-Berg

Schipbreuk (z.j.)

[eugene114]

Akersloot-Berg, Betzy (1850-1922)

Fra Nordkapp

5Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. 6Because of these, the wrath of God is coming. b 7You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived. 8But now you must also rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips. 9Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices 10and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator. 11Here there is no Gentile or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all.

3 Who is life in life to me? Who the death of death will be? Who will place me on His right, With the countless hosts of light? Jesus Christ, the Crucified.

4 This is that great thing I know; This delights and stirs me so: Faith in Him who died to save, Him who triumphed o'er the grave, Jesus Christ, the Crucified.

Amen.

[womansart]

Betzy Akersloot-Berg (Norwegian painter) 1850 - 1922 Kystparti i Nord-Norge, 1883 oil on canvas

[johnroeluna]

Betzy Akersloot Berg private home.

Built in 1575, Tromp's Huys was purchased in 1896 by the Norwegian-born Akersloot-Berg (1850-1922) and her Dutch husband Gooswinus Gerardus Akersloot (1843-1929). She named it 'Tromp's Huys' as a tribute to the Dutch admiral Cornelis Tromp - who had served the Norwegian king well - and they settled here for the rest of their lives, with Akersloot-Berg running regular sewing workshops for local girls. However, although Tromp's Huys became an important domestic centre for the couple, Akersloot-Berg continued to travel throughout Europe every summer, showing her work at major exhibitions.

* Trained in Oslo, Munich and The Hague, and playing an active role in the contemporary artistic community, Akersloot-Berg produced some 300 paintings throughout her career. The majority are now kept at Tromp's Huys, which opened as a museum in 1950. The house is owned by Vereniging Hendrick de Keyser, an organisation dedicated to maintaining valuable historic buildings in the Netherlands.

[womansart]

Betzy Akersloot-Berg (Norwegian painter) 1850 - 1922 Fra Lofoten, s.d. oil on canvas