A Life of Color and Independence In the quiet streets of Kampen, a girl named Johanna Petronella Catharina Antoinetta Koster began a life that would eventually wander far beyond the borders of her Dutch birthplace. Born in 1868, she was the third of eight children, and the weight of responsibility arrived early when her father passed away during her youth. This loss shaped her path, driving her toward the pursuit of a profession that could sustain both herself and her family. By her teenage years, she had moved to Dordrecht, where she first learned to guide a pencil under the tutelage of Roel…