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Rijswijk, NetherlandsOn Whoppah since December 2022 • 2 sales
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Watercolor 18 x 8 cm Signed lower right
Hendrik Johannes Weissenbruch is one of the most important painters of the Hague School. Because he was also called "Jan Hendrik" and often signed his work "J.H. Weissenbruch," he is also known by this name. For this reason, he is sometimes confused with his cousin, Jan Weissenbruch, two years older than him, who painted cityscapes in a romantic-realist style.
Among the painters of the Hague School, J.H. Weissenbruch holds a special place. Not only was he one of the first painters of the movement, he is still considered one of the most important. Jos de Gruyter wrote about him in his book "The Hague School": "But neither of them reached the peaks that Weissenbruch sometimes reached in his later phase. Peaks of expansive balance, of condensed simplicity, of innocence and mastery, of the immediate and the eternal—peaks such as these are always rare in art history." Weissenbruch had a great predilection for the South Holland polder landscape. At the invitation of the Leiden art dealer and framer Sala, he often went on trips on his sailboat. Sailing along lakes and waterways, he became acquainted with the watery landscape. The combination of space, air, water, and meadows was an inexhaustible source of inspiration for him.
J.H. Weissenbruch's greatest strength was the light he managed to bring into his paintings and watercolors. He himself considered the sky and light the most important elements of his landscapes. He said of this: "The sky in a painting, that's a thing! A fundamental thing! Sky and light are the great magicians. The sky defines the painting." In many of Weissenbruch's paintings and watercolors, the sky takes up two-thirds or even more of the surface.
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ConditionExcellentColorsMulti ColorMaterialPaperNumber of items1Height8 cmWidth18 cm
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Rijswijk, NetherlandsOn Whoppah since December 2022 • 2 sales