“Blommers, like many Hague School painters, had a preference for placing his motifs in the centre of his paintings…In this work he does not show any moralistic references or social commitment, but he paints the sunny side of life showing children in their happy and carefree state, which was not often the case in the…
Category: The Hague School
Beethoven, Blommers, and Höhenrieder
“To Blommers, children represented happiness and innocence, and he often captured children’s play in his pictures. He himself once said that although he saw children by the sea almost everyday, they offered him something new every time. (‘Ja, dat schilder ik graag, zulke kinderen aan zee. Ik zie ze bijna iedere dag zoo, en toch…
Bernardus Johannes Blommers: Schooltje spelen
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Jacob Maris: Frederik Hendrik Kaemmerer…in Oosterbeek (c.1861-1862)
Jacob Maris and The Hague School Like his two younger brothers, Willem Maris and Matthijs Maris, Jacob Maris (1837 – 1899) was a Dutch draughtsman, printmaker, and landscape painter of the Hague School, a group of artists who lived and worked in The Hague between 1860 and 1890. Their work was heavily influenced by the…
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