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George Hendrik Breitner

(1857—1923)

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Breitner, Georg Hendrik

Breitner, Georg Hendrik (1857–1923)   Reference library

The Oxford Companion to the Photograph

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2006
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influenced by Impressionism, who also took many photographs, especially of Amsterdam's streets and canals. Some of these were intended as

Breitner, George Hendrik

Breitner, George Hendrik   Reference library

The Oxford Dictionary of Art (3 ed.)

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2004
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(b Rotterdam, 12 Sept. 1857; d Amsterdam, 5 June 1923).

Dutch painter and photographer. He trained in The Hague, where he became a friend of ...

Breitner, George Hendrik

Breitner, George Hendrik (1857–1923)   Reference library

The Oxford Companion to Western Art

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2003
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(1857–1923).

Dutch painter. Breitner was born in Rotterdam and studied in his home town and The Hague and

Jan Sluyters

Jan Sluyters  

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(b 's-Hertogenbosch, 17 Dec. 1881; d Amsterdam, 8 May 1957).Dutch painter, active mainly in Amsterdam. He was one of the best-known artists in the Netherlands in the interwar period and the one in ...
Jan Veth

Jan Veth  

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(b Dordrecht, 18 May 1864; d Amsterdam, 1 July 1925).Dutch painter, draughtsman, printmaker, poet, and writer on art, a leading figure in the Dutch art world of his time. ...
Jozef Israëls

Jozef Israëls  

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(b Groningen, 27 Jan. 1824; d Scheveningen, 12 Aug. 1911).Dutch painter. He studied in Amsterdam and Paris and began his career as a portrait and historical painter, but in the 1850s he turned to the ...
Maris

Maris  

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Family of three brothers who played a leading part in Dutch painting during the second half of the 19th century. Jacob (Jacobus Hendricus) (b The Hague, 25 Aug. 1837; d Karlsbad, 7 Aug. 1899) was one ...

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