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George Hendrik Breitner

Breitner (Rotterdam 1857-1923) was the painter of Amsterdam City Life. Painter of dynamics and melancholy. Many Amsterdammers will consider him to be the painter par excellence who managed to captu...

Charles Dankmeijer

Charles Dankmeijer was born on the eighth of April, 1861, in Amsterdam. Even at a young age, he had an interest in painting. His first drawing lessons took place at the artistic society 'Felix Meri...

Colorful Leo Gestel

Leendert Gestel (1841-1941) was an etcher, illustrator, wall painter, painter, watercolourist, draftsman, lithographer, designer, pastellist and had an impressionist, luminist (from 1910), fauvist ...

Rysselberghe & Sluijters

This morning we were in Singer Laren for two beautiful exhibitions. One around Theo van Rysselberghe and one around Jan Sluijters and the modernists. The first is about the painter of the sun and a...

Colorist Ben Viegers

Ben Viegers (The Hague 1886-Nunspeet 1947) lived in Nunspeet from 1938 until his death. He lives there on De Laan with his wife as a pleinairist and bon vivant. Without frills, pretensions, unsophi...

De 15 grootste Vlaamse Kunstenaars

This blog focuses on the 15 largest Flemish artists in the period 1820-1950, arranged according to their position within Artprice. In other words, what do they yield and how marketable are their wo...

Villa Mondriaan

Mondriaan was born in Amersfoort in 1872 and moved with the family to Winterswijk in 1980 because his father became headmaster at a school. The family settled on the Zonnebrink. Villa Mondriaan has...

Pointillist Co Breman

Co Breman (1865-1938) comes from a family of six. At home they had a forge and carpentry factory. However, his father died early and Co came under the care of guardians, who encouraged him to atten...