page_title: Margriet Windhausen
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: Margriet Windhausen / Life
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Geboorte Margriet Windhausen. Afkomstig uit De Nieuwe Koerier, donderdag 25 juni 1942, [p. 4].
context_page_description: Margriet Windhausen is a Dutch-born sculptor and painter.
context_section_description: Margriet Windhausen was born in Roermond, Netherlands to painter Fons Windhausen and is the fourth generation of the Windhausen family to be an artist. She studied sculpture from 1962 to 1965 at the City Academy of Fine Arts in Maastricht. From 1965 to 1972 she was a teacher at Posterholt. She emigrated to New Zealand in 1976, where she made a name as a sculptor. For 25 years from 1990, she and her husband Paul van den Bergh lived in Timaru in two churches that they moved to the site and converted into a home and studio. In 2014 they moved to the Kapiti Coast.
  Windhausen and her husband have a number of children and grandchildren.
caption: Windhausen's birth announcement
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