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Dijsselhof, Gerrit Willem
(b Zwollerkerspel, nr Zwolle, 8 Feb 1866; d Bloemendaal, nr Haarlem, 14 June 1924). Dutch painter and designer. He studied at the Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten in The Hague, and at the Rijkskunstnijverheidsschool and Rijksnormaalschool in Amsterdam. In 1889–1890 he travelled with T. W. Nieuwenhuis to Berlin, Vienna and Paris. His woodcut design for a diploma for the Vereniging van Boekhandels (Society of Bookshops; 1892) and his decorations for the book Kunst en Samenleving (‘Art and society’), the Dutch edition of Walter Crane’s Claims of Decorative Art (London, 1892), are some of the earliest examples of Nieuwe Kunst. Dijsselhof is thus considered to be one of the most important innovators of this movement. He also designed furniture (see NETHERLANDS, THE, fig. 43), wallpaper, embroidery patterns and batik wall hangings. An example of his luxurious, meticulously detailed interiors can be seen in the room he designed for Dr van Hoorn in 1895, the Dijsselhofroom (The Hague, Gemeentemus.). After 1900 he occupied himself mainly with painting, usually depicting underwater scenes of fish and plants.
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