Margje Herblot

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Dutch journalist, writer and painter. Margje Herblot married four times with three men. She published under the names Margje Toonder-Herblot, Margje de Mooij-Herblot and Margje van Wieringen-Herblot as a journalist, writer and painter. Her first husband was the military pilot Johannes Verwijs (10 November 1901, Hoorn). They married on 27 August 1930 in Amsterdam and divorced in 1937. They got no children. Verwijs escaped during WWII to the US and ended as a colonel in the Australian Airforce. He died in Den Haag. From 1942 till 1953 she was married to the writer, poet and astrologer Jan Gerhard Toonder (18 July 1914, Rotterdam — 25 Augustus 1992, Amsterdam). During the war they worked together, but after the war they drove apart. After the divorce JG Toonder got depressed for a long time. She wrote two parts of a trilogy "Humor - satire van onze tijd" (1952). According to the Dutch artists database her third marriage (14 June 1957 - 10 July 1974) and fourth marriage (22 March 1982, A'dam - ) were with the Dutch cartoonist Willem de Mooij van Wieringen, penname Wim van Wieringen (2 December 1915, Amsterdam - 3 July 1999), who was a cartoonist of the Toonder studio's of her brother-in-law Marten Tooonder. But it might also be that this is an artefact as a result of a name change as Wim's mother Elizabeth van Wieringen was not married and Wim did know his biological father. He got the name De Mooi from his stepfather Wilhelmus de Mooij, who adopted him. Wim was the creator of the comic Simpelman in the Dutch papers. Since 1953 Wim and Margje travelled a lot. Margje wrote travel stories. They lived from 1956 till 1965 in Santa Margerita Ligure, Italy. Later they went to the United States, where Wim drew cartoons for the Jewish Week. In 1966 she started painting and exposed in the early seventies in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Rome en and Mexico. She died 2 July 1991 in Amsterdam.