Hendrika Geertruida (Riek) Milikowski-de Raat (1918) is a
Dutch painter who was born in a working-class family in the Amsterdam Jordaan
neighbourhood. She attended a training course in 1936 at the Institute for
Applied Arts in Amsterdam and then at the New Art School, with Jan Havermans
also in Amsterdam. This training, founded in 1933 by artist Paul Citroen, was
strongly anti-fascist and inspired by the Bauhaus in Germany. In the Second
World War she was active in the resistance.
De Raat was married in 1947 to sociologist Herman
Milikowski, who died in 1989. Their son, born in 1947, is the photographer and
graphic artist Efraim Milikowski. Her first marriage was with the resistance
fighter Antoon Winterink, who was executed in Belgium by the Germans after he
was arrested for illegal acts.
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In 1953 she became a member of the Leiden painting and
drawing society Ars Aemula Naturae and took classes at the Vrije Academie and
at the Academy for Visual Arts in The Hague, where Paul Citroen was one of the
most important teachers.
Since 2011 she lives in the Rosa Spier House in Laren. where
many notable Dutch artists live out their final years.
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