Treasured
Collected works of Nelly and Tine Honig
May 30 to October 11, 2026
Soon, the Zaans Museum will open an intimate exhibition about the Zaanse artists Nelly Honig (1879–1945) and Tine Honig (1894–1957). The museum will display a selection of works by two artists who have remained underexposed in (Zaanse) art history.
Although Nelly and Tine Honig were talented artists, their work has been mostly forgotten. Fortunately, part of their oeuvre has been preserved and passed on by family. Thanks to generous loans from these family members and the Honig(h) Archive Foundation, the Zaans Museum can show and explain their work.
Get to see Nelly’s refined portraits and lithographs and Tine’s atmospheric still lifes, in which her sense of color and composition shows. Tine Honig (1894-1957). Het museum toont een selectie werken van twee kunstenaars die onderbelicht zijn gebleven in de (Zaanse) kunstgeschiedenis.
Nelly en Tine Honig
Nelly Honig (1879–1945) studied from 1903 to 1906 at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. Her professor and academy director, August Allebé, encouraged her further development as an artist. In 1908 she wins the prestigious Willink van Collen Prize for her painting Pause. This work is specially restored for the cabinet presentation. Nelly Honig excells in carefully copying portraits and in lithography. Besides her artistry, she also worked as an office clerk.
The fifteen-years-younger Tine Honig (1894–1957), originally from Koog aan de Zaan, studied from 1916 to 1921 at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. During her studies, she co-founded the association De Zaankanters an association with other artists from the Zaan region. Tine devoted herself entirely to her artistry and regularly participated in exhibitions. She mainly paints still lifes, a beloved genre.
This presentation was created as a result of research on Nelly and Tine Honig conducted by Margreet van der Hut.
