Biography: Arthur van Schendel (1874-1946)


Figure 1.--Here is the Schendel family in 1927. Notice the teenage boy (aged about 15) wearing typical Dutch gymnasium (high school) clothes--a dark jacket with white (or brass?) buttons worn with a white, open-necked shirt, white knee pants with button trim down the sides, and long black stockings.

Arthur van Schendel was a Dutch novelist and short-story writer with a decidely romantic temperament but possessing what the Encyclopaedia Britannica calls "a concentrated, restrained, almost classical style." He wrote some of the greatest novels of the period. His first significant novels, A Wanderer in Love (1904) and A Lost Wanderer (1907) are set in medieval Italy. The hero is Tamalone whose inner life and imagination become more important than the historical setting. The thrust of these volumes is tragic, dealing as they do with the force of destiny. The theme of fate and humanity's submission to it pervade his later works which turn to more realistic settings and style. His account of "The Johanna Maria" (1935) tells the history of one of the vanishing sailing ships and its sailmaker. "The House of Haarlem (1940) became his most popular novel. Another well-known novel is "The Grey Birds" (1939). Some availavle family snapshots show how his children were dressed. Here we see Van Schendel with his family and children in 1927. Notice the teenage boy (aged about 15) wearing typical Dutch gymnasium (high school) clothes--a dark jacket with white (or brass?) buttons worn with a white, open-necked shirt, white knee pants with button trim down the sides, and long black stockings. Judging from the foliage in the background the season seems to be late spring or summer.






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