A building site in Amsterdam after the rain 1857 - 1923

George Hendrik Breitner

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52 ⨯ 93 cm
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• Sobre arte
  George Hendrik Breitner
  
  A building site in Amsterdam after the rain
  
  Oil on canvas | Signed lower left | 52 x 93
  
  Exhibited Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam “Breitner en Amsterdam, 1947”
  
  George Hendrik Breitner (12 September 1857 – 5 June 1923) was a Dutch painter and photographer. An important figure in Amsterdam Impressionism, he is noted especially for his paintings of street scenes and harbours in a realistic style. He painted en plein air, and became interested in photography as a means of documenting street life and atmospheric effects – rainy weather in particular – as reference materials for his paintings. From 1876–1880 he attended the Art Academy in The Hague where his extraordinary talent was rewarded on various occasions. From October 1878 till April 1879 he worked as an art teacher at the Leiden academy Ars Aemula Naturae. In 1880 he was expelled from the Art Academy of The Hague for misconduct, because he had destroyed the regulations-board. In the same year he lived at landscapist Willem Maris's place at Loosduinen and was accepted as a member of Pulchri Studio, an important artist's society in The Hague. Later, he distanced himself from the Hague School and today he is generally regarded as an Amsterdam Impressionist.
  
• Sobre artista

  George Hendrik Breitner (1857-1923) nasceu em Rotterdam. Em 1876, matriculou-se na academia de Haia. Mais tarde, ele trabalhou no estúdio de Willem Maris. Nesse período inicial, ele foi especialmente influenciado pelos pintores da Escola de Haia. Breitner preferia os modelos da classe trabalhadora: trabalhadores, empregadas e pessoas de bairros de classe baixa. Ele se via como 'le peintre du peuple', o pintor do povo. Em 1886, muda-se para Amsterdã, onde registra a vida da cidade em esboços, pinturas e fotos. Às vezes, ele fazia várias fotos do mesmo assunto, de diferentes ângulos ou em diferentes condições climáticas. As fotos podem servir de exemplo para uma pintura, como para seus retratos de meninas de quimonos, ou como material de referência geral. Breitner frequentemente colaborava com Isaac Israels; ambos os pintores são chamados de impressionistas de Amsterdã. Os críticos conservadores chamaram o estilo de Breitner de "inacabado".