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1857 Rotterdam, Holland - 1923 Amsterdam, Holland. Known for: Hague School realist working-class genre paintings, nudes, city scenes.
A realist painter and photographer from Holland, George Hendrik Breitner did painting that was very popular among the general public but was disdainful to many late 19th/early 20th century art... Read full biography
A realist painter and photographer from Holland, George Hendrik Breitner did painting that was very popular among the general public but was disdainful to many late 19th/early 20th century art critics because at a time when modernism and its abstractions were taking hold, he promoted realism. He... Read full biography
A realist painter and photographer from Holland, George Hendrik Breitner did painting that was very popular among the general public but was disdainful to many late 19th/early 20th century art critics because at a time when modernism and its abstractions were taking hold, he promoted realism. He saw himself as the painter of the people, and the people responded with great fondness for his work. Among his favorite subjects were city scenes with working-class people in low-income neighborhoods... Read full biography
A realist painter and photographer from Holland, George Hendrik Breitner did painting that was very popular among the general public but was disdainful to many late 19th/early 20th century art critics because at a time when modernism and its abstractions were taking hold, he promoted realism. He saw himself as the painter of the people, and the people responded with great fondness for his work. Among his favorite subjects were city scenes with working-class people in low-income neighborhoods such as servant girls and construction workers. He was also a painter of female nudes and received criticism for them for being too real and not promoting idealistic beauty. Early in his career, from 1877 to 1883, he was financially supported in this... Read full biography
A realist painter and photographer from Holland, George Hendrik Breitner did painting that was very popular among the general public but was disdainful to many late 19th/early 20th century art critics because at a time when modernism and its abstractions were taking hold, he promoted realism. He saw himself as the painter of the people, and the people responded with great fondness for his work. Among his favorite subjects were city scenes with working-class people in low-income neighborhoods such as servant girls and construction workers. He was also a painter of female nudes and received criticism for them for being too real and not promoting idealistic beauty. Early in his career, from 1877 to 1883, he was financially supported in this return to realism by A.P. van Stolk, a man interested in art and dedicated to influencing its directions.... Read full biography
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Art Method
- •Easel Painting
Art Media
Art Style
- •Realism/Semi Impressionism
Art Subject
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
Art Movement
- •Hague School of Painting, First or Second Generation