Adelaide Alexandrine Koekkoek (1838 – 1919) was a German still life painter from Kleve.

Adèle Koekkoek
Adèle Koekkoek as a child, pastel portrait by her grandfather Jean Augustin Daiwaille, 1844
Born
Adelaide Alexandrine Koekkoek

(1838-10-28)October 28, 1838
Died1919(1919-00-00) (aged 80–81)

Koekkoek was born as the fourth daughter of five to two painters. Her Dutch father Barend Cornelis Koekkoek had built a reputation as a landscape artist specializing in finely articulated country scenes before moving to Kleve with her mother Elise Thérèse Koekkoek-Daiwaille.[1] She became a still life painter in the style of her mother and grandfather. Her sister Marie Louise painted landscapes.

Koekkoek married the widower of her sister Betsie in 1880 and died in Koblenz.[2]

Her sisters were:

  1. Elise Therese Koekkoek (1834 – 1835), died in infancy
  2. Jeanette Augustine (Annette) Koekkoek (1836 – 1915), married in 1867
  3. Anna Elisabeth (Betsie) Koekkoek (1837 – 1878), married in 1866 to Hugo Meyer, stationmaster in Koblenz
  4. Marie Louise (Marie) Koekkoek (1840 – 1910), the first to marry in 1859, she also became a painter

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References

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  1. Stammbaum Koekkoek on Museum B.C. Koekkoek Haus website, Kleve
  2. Toechter Koekkoek on Koekkoek Haus website, Kleve