Gisèle d’Ailly van Waterschoot van der Gracht
Gisèle d’Ailly van Waterschoot van der Gracht is a woman
of the castle. She never learned how to use a stove or how to prepare fried
eggs. She simply never had to learn it. She let herself be carried away by the
stillness of thick brick walls. Pealing paint from the ceiling, men hiding in
the structure of ornaments, fluttering of bird wings, fish bone revealing hooded
figures.
Gisèle just turned 100 years old and looks back at a
fascinating life. As a child living in the USA she played with Punka-indian
friends, eccentric uncles and aunts dominated everyday life at the Austrian
family castle, she made numerous paint glass windows for churches, ships, and
monasteries. She provided shelter to Jewish Germans during WWII, befriended
great artists and writers like Max Beckmann, Adriaan Roland Holst, and Aldous
Huxley. For years she lived and worked in Greece, but returned to her canal
house in Amsterdam Castrum Peregrini, where she still resides today. Living the
life of an artist, Gisèle is a woman of imagination. She still finds herself
wondered by this world. via freundevonfreunden
Gisèle d’Ailly van Waterschoot van der Gracht is a woman of the castle. She never learned how to use a stove or how to prepare fried eggs. Apartment Amsterdam
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