Lot 1009
1009
COLLECTION of 37 letters & 7 postcards from Johfra & Diana van den Berg to C.L.J. (Cor) Damme. The Hague/Paris a.o., 1952-56. Airmail paper. Most letters in Dutch; two in English. All signed. -- 54 PHOTO'S, b&w & cold., of works of both J. F. and D. van den Berg / Vandenberg. The Hague, a.o., (n.d. 1950-60s?). -- Added: SCHETSBOEK VAN JOHFRA. Met een inl. van B. van Doorn. The Hague, (1978). (6), 155 lfs. Ocl. w. (lightly dam.) dust-j. -- (3).
Johfra van den Berg / Bosschart (1919-98), Diana van den Berg (1923-97); Dutch painters in Surrealist style. Between 1952-62 they where a married couple. -- C.L.J. (Cor) Damme. One of the founders of the Lectorium Rosicrucianum in Haarlem and a driving figure of Rosicrucian work in the Netherlands. Working as an art dealer after WWII, he met Johfra and Diana van den Berg in 1953. They struck a friendship; the van den Bergs joined the Rosicrucians and kept up a correspondance with Damme after he left for Brazil and the US. In the letters they address Damme (and his family) as "Beste Vaais, Mams en Zusjes".€ 200
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