Constance Wibautartist • sculptorAmsterdam 1920-2014 Amsterdam

Although we know her mainly from the seductive fashion drawings she made during the Paris fashion shows in the 50s and 60s, Constance Wibaut trained as a sculptor. She did this in her hometown of Amsterdam, at the Nieuwe Kunstschool and the Rijksacademie. In 1950 she emigrated to the United States, together with her husband Portrait painter Willem Boomkens. In Texas, she taught fashion illustration. When they returned a few years later, Wibaut started working as a fashion illustrator for Elsevier's Weekblad and remotely for The Houston Chronicle and The Daily Telegraph. She designed sets and costumes for television and theatre. Wibaut taught fashion illustration at the academy in The Hague, and costume drawing and scenography at the academy in Amsterdam. At the Amsterdam Theatre School, she taught costume and style history. Since 1985, Wibaut has focused on sculpting. Several of her sculptures and plaques can still be found in the public space of Amsterdam, such as the bust of her grandfather Floor Wibaut in the Stopera. Her work is included in the collection of the Centraal Museum, the H'ART Museum and the Kunstmuseum in The Hague.