Breitner: Schilderbeest (Singer Museum, Laren)
Suzanne Veldink
Singer Laren & WBooks, 2024
€29,95
A new perspective on Breitner’s painting career. George Hendrik Breitner (1857-1923) is known as ‘the painter of Amsterdam’ and ‘Dutch impressionist’. But do these qualifications cover it all? Do we really know Breitner? In this publication, the author returns to the quintessential artist that is Breitner based on six themes – practice, figure, light/dark, line, movement and color. Breitner’s choice of subject appears to be a means for him to experiment with line and color. This made him far ahead of his time and played an important role in the history of modernism in the Netherlands. The book combines real crowd favorites, such as Breitner’s kimono girls, with lesser-known works of art, including an extensive selection of his raw, uncompromising nudes. These big surprises place the better-known work in a new perspective. In this way we come closer to nineteenth-century interpretations of Breitner’s work and to the intentions of the artist himself. IN DUTCH!
ISBN: 9789462586123
