Truus Mengerartist • sculptorSchoten 1923

Truus Menger was a well-known resistance fighter in World War II and friend of Hannie Schaft. Her interest in visual art was aroused when she went into hiding for some time in Haarlem with the sculptor Mari Andriessen for her acts of sabotage. Only in 1963, when her children were grown, did she join the artist group 'De Acht' in Haarlem and took painting lessons with J.F. Boat. After that she had lessons at the 'Akademie 63'. Her images often have a socially engaged and politically charged content to which she gives both figurative and abstract form. She made large, monumental sculptures with war, resistance and freedom as subjects, as well as small molded sculptures that were cast in bronze.