Hague School

Hague school is an intellectual or artistic movement that has shaped the ideas of many notable thinkers throughout history.

15 thinkers248 quotesTop field: Art

"Isaac and Liebermann had a lot of hassle with horses at the beach during the summer and I also got a wipe of it.."

Jozef Israëls· b. 1824View quote →

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"images of his art, in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam"

"There is still some study here for the Dutch landscape, and I believe the best I can do is to stay some time longer."

"Isaac and Liebermann had a lot of hassle with horses at the beach during the summer and I also got a wipe of it.."

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George Hendrik Breitner

Art

Hague School

1857–1923

"Hartenstraat - 1 o'clock in the afternoon - the flags throw shadow on the houses"

"many free images of paintings and drawings of Matthijs Maris, in the RijksStudio of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam"

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Barend Cornelis Koekkoek

Art

Hague School

1803–1862

"The free artist must also have the spunk to tear himself away from his first ideas, for experience teaches us that these are not always pure, but often false."

"I am searching for a tone, which we call 'colored grey'. I mean that all colors, even the strongest, can be brought together in such a way as to give the impression of a warm, vital grey."

"Just follow the lead of the Dutch seventeenth-century master-painters, we have to look at the country around us in the way the old masters did."

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🇳🇱Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch

Art

Hague School

1824–1903

"I am here the doctor , bringing his morning visit. I feel them all the pulse. One I say: Wait, I'll make you an ointment, so you will refresh completely. The other I say: Friend, you need air, and even more the light."

"The Brothers Maris , ed. Charles Holme; text: D.C. Thomson; publishers: Offices of 'The Studio', London - Paris, 1907"

"images of paintings and drawings by Paul Gabriël, in the RijksStudio of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam"

"..and since we are now living in the Summer-time, I don't have a trick to imagine me Winter so strongly that I would be able to paint one .. ..and you must have patience until next winter."

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Hendrik Willem Mesdag

Art

Hague School

1831–1915

"And you know, if my wife haven't said some forty years ago: do it, let's go to Brussels to study painting, , then I probably would never have left my business ."

"The cow exists for the light that comes to glide along and over the animal - the light doesn't exist for he cow."

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Sina Mesdag-van Houten

Art

Hague School

1834–1909

"free pictures of her paintings and drawings: on the website, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam"

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Notable Quotes

"..the owner .. ..had to hear a lot of comments about it, they called it the apotheosis of a cape, the figure much too big for the frame, etc. etc. so they advised him to exchange it for one of my other works."

— Jozef Israëls, b. 1824View →

"That is always difficult and can only become a potboiler."

— Jozef Israëls, b. 1824View →

"The old clothing-jew I made, was a Jew. But not because he was a Jew I painted him -.. ..a painter paints like a painter and not because he is a Jew.. ."

— Jozef Israëls, b. 1824View →

"The picture of the 'New Flower' is really one of those I did with much idea of having to express loveliness and youth both in human feeling and in the naturally plants of flowers, and If I may say don't you find, that I have succeed in this composition?"

— Jozef Israëls, b. 1824View →

"I am here the doctor , bringing his morning visit. I feel them all the pulse. One I say: Wait, I'll make you an ointment, so you will refresh completely. The other I say: Friend, you need air, and even more the light."

— Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch, b. 1824View →

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