Farm near Kralingen – Boerderij bij Kralingen 1916

Rodolphe Paul Wytsman

Oil paintPanelPaint
27.10 ⨯ 36 cm
ConditionExcellent
€ 3.750

Klooster Fine Art

• About the artwork
  [EN]
  Rodolphe Wytsman (1860-1927) stayed in The Netherlands between 1914 and 1918, to escape the terrors of the First World War. Together with his wife, Juliette, Rodolphe was one of the central figures in the group of Belgian refugee artists. He continued painting, taking up some typically Dutch landscapes like this view on a farm near the village of Kralingen (near Rotterdam). His Luminist version of Impressionism shows here in the way he depicted the flowers in the garden, and the (reflection of) the row boat in the middle of the image. Throughout this painting he used a varying brushstroke, adapting shape, direction and the thickness of the paint layer to the effect he wanted to convey.
  
  [NL]
  Rodolphe Wytsman (1860-1927) verbleef tussen 1914 en 1918 in Nederland, om het strijdgeweld van de Eerste Wereldoorlog te ontvluchten. Samen met zijn vrouw, Juliette, was Rodolphe een van de spilfiguren in de groep gevluchte Belgische vluchtelingen. Hij bleef in Nederland schilderen en hij nam het Nederlands landschap tot onderwerp, zoals deze boerderij bij Kralingen (bij Rotterdam). Zijn luministische variant van het impressionisme komt naar voren in de verbeeldde bloemen in de tuin, en de roeiboot en reflectie midden in beeld. Door het hele schilderij gebruikte hij een gevarieerde penseelstreek, waarbij hij vorm, richting en dikte van de verflaag aanwendde om het beoogd effect te verkrijgen.
• About the artist

  Rodolphe Paul Wytsman (1860, Dendermonde – Linkebeek, 1927), also spelt Rodolf Paul Wijtsman, was a Belgian painter.

  He studied under Jean Capeinick at the Academie voor Beeldende Kunst (Academy of Fine Arts) in Ghent. Subsequently, he studied at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts (Royal Academy of Fine Arts) in Brussels, where he came into contact with the circle L’Essor, in which Henri Permeke, James Ensor and many other artists participated.

  In 1883, he was a member of Les Vingt for one year. In 1986, he married Juliette Trulemans, who was a painter too. Wytsman’s subject matters are genre paintings, landscapes, city views.

  Wytsman works in a luminist and neo-impressionist style. He exhibited in the salons of Brussels, Antwerp and Ghent. His works are in many museums in Belgium and abroad, in Amsterdam, Antwerp, Brussels, Buenos Aires, Tokyo, etc.

  He lived and worked in many places, in Italy (1882-1883), Knokke, La Hulpe, Linkebeek (1892-1927). During World War I Wytsman lived in the Netherlands.

Are you interested in buying this artwork?