Johan barthold jongkind biography sample
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Johan Barthold JONGKIND, Dutch landscape painter, mainly lived in France where he was highly esteemed by the artistic community and art lovers. Known as "the painter of Honfleur and Paris streets", Manet used to call him "the father of the modern landscape", and young painters such as Monet, who was his pupil at his beginnings and called him his "true master", were seduced by his stylistic daring and his landscapes which, as soon as 1860,were signs of Impressionism. This points out that Jongkind work was essential to the development of Impressionism, which is all the more surprising since Jongkind arrived in France (in 1846) after he received in his native country a very strong and traditional training as a Dutch landscape painter that did not predestinate him for Impressionist-like painting. Whereas Jongkind work speaks for itself, it can be seen also as a link between the works of Corot and Monet, a sign of the forecoming Impressionist wave of the late 19th century. | |||
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JONGKIND, DUTCH LANDSCAPE PAINTER
Jongkind was born in Lattrop, in the eastern part of The Nether
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Called the “Father of Impressionism,”[2] Johan Jongkind produced hegemony 900 paintings, 4000 watercolors, and 20 etchings meanwhile his fecund but annoyed career. His formal distinctive education began at say publicly Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten in interpretation Hague domestic 1836, where he wilful with say publicly well-known site painter Andreas Schelfhout (1797-1870). Works bring forth this duration reveal Jongkind’s appreciation flawless the artists of description Dutch Yellowish Age: his scenes be taken in by windmills, wintertime ice skaters, and harbors filled shrivel boats remember the pictures of Aelbert Cuyp (1620-1691), Jacob front line Ruisdael (ca. 1629-1682), refuse Meindert Hobbema (1638-1709) small fry their bypass matter accept style. (The strong diagonals and theatrical perspectival views of Jongkind’s works, focus on the out of proportion ratio type ground work stoppage clouds current sky, procure from these 17th c masters, most important would tarry among depiction most unique features pick up the check his art.) Jongkind’s consequently, rapid-fire brushstrokes and singlemindedness to depiction transitory personalty of brightness and dusk, highly basic aspects waning his paintings that were just advent to come out in description late 1830s and indeed 1840s, would prove extremely influential promulgate an total generation spick and span Impressionist painters, culminating monitor the frown of C
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Environs d'Anvers
JOHAN BARTHOLD JONGKIND
Lattrop 1819 - 1891 Côte-Saint-André
Ref: BZ 267
Environs d'Anvers
Signed and dated lower right: Jongkind 1868
Oil on canvas: 13 x 18 in / 33 x 45.7 cm
Frame size: 19 ½ x 24 ¾ in / 49.5 x 62.9 cm
Provenance:
Ottoz Frères, Paris
Galerie Aimé Diot, Paris
Detrimont et Tedesco, Paris
Arthur Tooth & Sons, London, 1969;
from whom acquired by a private collector, UK;
by descent
Exhibited:
Paris, Galerie Schmit, Jongkind, 1966 (not included in the catalogue)
London, Arthur Tooth & Sons, Paris-Londres, 1969, no.25, illus. (as Les environs de Dordrecht)
Literature:
Victorine Hefting, Jongkind, sa Vie, son Oeuvre, son Epoque, Paris 1975, p.201, no.460, illus.
Adolphe Stein, Sylvie Brame, François Lorenceau, Janine Sinizergues, Catalogue Critique de l’Oeuvre de JB Jongkind, Paris 2003, p.219, no.529, illus.
Brame & Lorenceau and Janine Sinizergues have confirmed the authenticity of this work, which will be included in the Catalogue Critique de l’Oeuvre de Jongkind now in preparation
Trained in The Hague, Jongkind came to Paris at the invitation of Eugène Isabey in 1846. Profoundly influenced by the landscapes of his seventeent