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Re: Searching for Santifort

Posted: 16 Sep 2014 3:56PM GMT
Classification: Query
Anita,

This must be him, your grandfather. He lived a while in Amsterdam. Do you have his family card 1920-1936 of Amsterdam?

Cornelis Sandifort
Geboortegegevens: • 1903 - - geboren
te Haarlemmermeer
dd 25.09.1903
betreft:Cornelis (Cor) Sandifort

Overlijdensgegevens: • 1985 - - overleden
te Raleigh /North Carolina
dd 1985
betreft:Cornelis (Cor) Sandifort

Beroep: • edelsmid
• emailleur
• sierkunstenaar

Materiaal: • emaille

Onderwerp: • religieuze voorstellingen

Typering van het werk: • monstransen
• ontwerp van gebruiksvoorwerpen

Verblijf: • Amsterdam (Gemeente Amsterdam)

• Limburg

• Sittard (Gemeente Sittard-Geleen; Gemeente Sittard) 1946-1954
• Verenigde Staten vanaf 1954


Vorming: • onderwijs aan kunstopleiding;
Instelling: Instituut voor Kunstnijverheidsonderwijs Amsterdam;


Lid van / ingeschreven bij: • 1943 - - lidmaatschap kunstkring
functie: werkend lid
bij: Kunstkring Nederland -> Cornelis (Cor) Sandifort -> vanaf: omstr. 1943

Presentaties (selectie): • 1924 - - Tentoonstelling van Beeldende Kunst - Comité voor Kunsttentoonstellingen 's - Hertogenbosch (NL), Limburgse Kunstkring, Nederlandse Kunstkring 'Het Zuiden' Vlissingen
• 1941 - - Pro Arte Christiani - Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

• 1943 - - Kunstkring Nederland - Kunstkring Nederland, Panorama Mesdag Den Haag

Literatuur/wordt vermeld in: • 1924 - - Catalogus der 2e Zuidelijke Tentoonstelling van Beeldende Kunst, omvattende werk van kunstenaars uit Zeeland, Noord-Brabant en Limburg

• 1941 - - Pro Arte Christiani

• 1943 - - Ausstellung limburgischer Künstler der Gegenwart

• 1948 - - Limburgse kunst

• 1949 - - Pro Arte Christiana

• 1949 - - van Hall II; Repertorium Geschiedenis Ned. Schilder- en Graveerkunst II 1933-1946

• 1969 - - Lexicon Nederlandse Beeldende Kunstenaars 1750-1950


Re: Searching for Santifort

Posted: 21 May 2015 9:25PM GMT
Classification: Query
Anita--
I'm writing a memoir of my husband, Joseph Woodson Oglesby, and on its first page, I mention your grandfather. Joe always wondered what happened to Cor. Cor worked as an art therapist at Our Lady of Peace in Louisville, KY, in the '60s, at the time Joe's second wife, Janey, was a patient. Cor encouraged Janey in her art, and Janey, Joe, and Cor became friends. Joe told me Cor left Louisville to follow a woman. Before he left, he gave Joe an oil he painted when he was a young student. It's Paris at night, a view of a bridge over the Seine. It's wonderful. Joe had it framed. Cor used it to front his medicine cabinet, and he hadn't framed it. It's oil on a wood panel. It hangs above a long sofa in my living room.
Joe liked Cor immensely. "Cor liked to listen. He liked to hear stories. He didn't talk much." Cor also liked cake. When Joe visited him once in his garret on Eastern Parkway, Joe brought him cake.
Joe and I weren't on the internet. If we had been, we would have found that your grandfather had moved to Raleigh. Strangely enough, Raleigh is where Janey is from. She moved back there recently.
I have a photo of your grandfather taken in Bill and Diane Houghton's back yard. He's standing, in profile, wearing a white shirt and dark trousers, slightly stooped. White hair. A handsome man. Bill and Diane were also friends of Cor and friends of Joe and Janey.
Joe knew that Cor had made chalices in the Netherlands. He also knew that Cor rode his bike outside Amsterdam in search of food during the awful winter of '44, I think. He had to evade German soldiers guarding the bridges. This is all I know of your grandfather. I hope it helps you to know him better. Oh, he also did Comedy and Tragedy masks, small, in clay mounted on a plywood panel. I think I still have this. If you want, I will give you this.
Marianna Oglesby
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