Ot en Sien

Ot and Sien are the main characters in a series of Dutch children's stories that were very popular in the first half of the twentieth century.

After World War II were the stories of Ot and Sien out of fashion and they laught about them . The centenary in 2004 was celebrated with an exhibition which mainly focused on the illustrations Jetses.

Ot and Sien two kids, a boy and a girl, who were model of the children of Scheepstra. Scheepstra and Jetses painted a very romantic view of life in Drenthe. H. Roland Holst-van der Schalk describes in Capital and Labor (Nijmegen 1977) how the population of Drenthe in 1900 belonged to the poorest of the Netherlands and lived for a considerable part in turf huts. Also in Van Peat and Tobacco to plastic tubes (De Knipe 1991) describes how the working and living conditions in Drenthe was worse than elsewhere in the Netherlands.