Johann Hendrik Weissenbruch ART FOR SALE

1824 The Hague, Holland - 1903 The Hague, Holland. Known for: Hague School plein-air landscape and genre painting.

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Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch was particularly fascinated with the permanently changing skies above the typically green polders around The Hague and later in the surroundings of Gouda and Boskoop. He was fascinated in rendering light effects and tonal qualities of a subject. Once Weissenbruch told the art dealer Van Harpen (1858-?): 'De lucht is de hoofdzaak in een schilderij. Als je lucht niet goed is, dan deugt je schilderij niet. De lucht beheerscht het heele landschap!.' (see: Hans Janssen, Wim van Sinderen, De Haagse School, Rotterdam, 1997, p. 46). Against the blue sky, seen from a lower viewing point, the majestic windmills are depicted to give the work a more dramatic atmosphere. The present lot is a typical example of Weissenbruch is... Read full biography

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Meadow and Brook

Type:Painting

Year:c.1850

Size:16.50" x 21.00"

Medium:Oil

Signed:Lower Right

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This painting depicts the best of Tonalist technique and the Barbizon Genre. The foreground of reeds frame a slow moving body of water that leads the eye to a soft bed of tall grass and then to farm house and steeple in the background under a pale blue sky and slight rain.

Price: SOLD