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1911 Marius Christiaan Meijboom is born on October 11 in Meppel.
1934-1935 During a training stint at a chemists' shop in
Amsterdam as a pharmacology student he meets Godfried de Groot. Makes
his first portraits and abandons his studies in favour of a course in
photography at the Reimann school in Berlin.
1936 Opens his own studio in Amsterdam.
1937-1938 Provides portraits for the book Personalities in the
Kingdom of the Netherlands. From 1938 adds fashion and commercial
photography to his portrait work.
1940-1945 Takes passport photographs for forged identity cards.
From 1942 to 1943 remanded in Scheveningen, Amersfoort and Vught on
suspicion of working for the resistance. From 1944 connected with the
illegal group of photographers later known as De Ondergedoken Camera
(The Camera in Hiding). Directly after the liberation the group's first
exhibition is held in his studio.
1947-1961 Court photographer.
1949-1954 Member of the NFK.
1956 Enters into partnership with Henk van der Heijden.
1950-1975 Concentrates on commercial and fashion photography. Ends his professional career in 1975.
1975-1988 Active as a teacher of photography. Member of the
executive and advisory board of the School of Photography and Photonics
in The Hague, and later active in the photography department of the
Royal Academy of Fine Arts, also in The Hague.
1998 Marius Meijboom dies on September 11 in Epe.
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