Art is a journey into the most unknown thing of all - oneself. Nobody knows his own frontiers… I don’t think I’d ever want to take a road if I knew where it led.

Louis Kahan
chagalov: The painter Charley Toorop, Amsterdam, 1931 -by Erwin Blumenfeld[see C. Toorop, 1950s] from : “Erwin Blumenfeld - His Dutch Years (1918-1936)”, Ed. The Hague Museum of Photography, 2006 Thanks to chagalov.
Charley Toorop
billyjane:  Charley Toorop, c. 1932 by Erwin Blumenfeld   from Erwin Blumenfeld - His Dutch Years (1918-1936)
 By Charley Toorop Charley Toorop was born in Katwijk. She was the daughter of Jan Toorop and Annie Hall. She married the philosopher Henk Fernhout in May 1912, but they divorced in 1917. Her son Edgar Fernhout(1912–1974; see nl:Edgar Fernhout) also became a painter. Her other son, John Fernhout (1913–1987), became a filmmaker, and often worked together with Joris Ivens. As a filmmaker he sometimes used the name John Ferno. Charley’s daughter in law was the well-known Jewish photographer Eva Besnyö (1910–2003), who married John in 1933.
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