The Dutch artist George Hendrik Breitner was undoubtedly a genius, which reflects his expression of late Impressionism in his paintings, but as a person he was rather a difficult contemporary. It is little known that he, who lived from 1857 to 1923, was friends with Vincent van Gogh in the years after 1882. After dropping out of school and taking private lessons with the Rotterdam genre painter Christoffel Neurdenberg, Breitner studied at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. Here he also came into contact with representatives of the Hague School, an artists' association of the time. The private contact with these artists, especially with Jacob Maris, fascinated him more than his academic training. Autodidactically he developed his own style.
Breitner was often present at the Hague State Riding School, where he painted horse studies. Since he expanded his repertoire in this respect, he made a name for himself with this own style. This also led to commissions, for example from his painter colleague Willem Mesdag, a naval and genre painter who also belongs to the Hague School. This is also how the well-known 1.40 x 3.40 m large-format cavalry painting on the beach of Scheveningen was created. He was also associated with van Gogh in a joint project in which they chose The Hague Workers and Maids as subjects.
Breitner was not necessarily interested in "bright", radiant Impressionism, but his style became more representational and, as he said about himself, "truer". This sometimes led to breaks, so that the pictures became darker and more uncompromising. With the often painted street scenes in Amsterdam, it was not the beautiful sides of the city that interested him. He was drawn to the poorer parts of the city, where real life took place for him. So pictures of dock workers, craftsmen, housewives are more likely to be found than elegantly dressed city dwellers. Also his most famous painting 'SingelbrĂĽcke bei der Paleisstraat in Amsterdam' shows a rather dull winter scene at a canal bridge. The persons are painted with fast brush strokes, mostly also darkly dressed. The impression is created as if the persons are moving through the picture almost hastily. In Breitner's work, one sees transitions to Expressionism rather than his initially bright, still Impressionist-influenced style of the initial study paintings. In the years around 1898, Breitner found in the incipient black-and-white photography an excellent tool for capturing his studies of movement and light in photographs and then implementing them accordingly in his paintings. His photographs are much sought-after today, having been rediscovered only in 1962.
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.jpg "The Singel Bridge at the Paleisstraat in Amsterdam by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "The Red Kimono by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Building Site by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "The Earring by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Girl in a White Kimono by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Evening at Square by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Female Nude with the Photographer Breitner in the Mirror by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Reclining Nude by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Reclining nude by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Female Nude Before Mirror by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Construction Site by George Hendrik Breitner")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1707950).jpg "Sara de Swart (1861-1951) by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Self-portrait with Pince-nez by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Reclining Female Nude by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Street View of the Rokin in Amsterdam by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Rokin by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Soldier Sitting and Eating by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Portrait of Marie Anne Henriette Breitner by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Neighborhood Street in Rijswijk near The Hague by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Sketch Sheet with Studies of a Gardener by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Reclining Nude by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Reclining Nude by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "View of the Oosterpark, Amsterdam, in the Snow by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "De Baan in Rotterdam by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Warehouses on the Teertuinen on the Prinseneiland, Amsterdam by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "View of the Dam in Amsterdam by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "View from the Bridge to Prinseneiland in Amsterdam by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "The Demolition of the Grand Bazar de la Bourse on the Nieuwendijk, Amsterdam by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "View of the Buiten Dommersstraat in Amsterdam by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Man Walking Forward, Pulling by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "View of the Kalverstraat in Amsterdam near Gerzon Department Store by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Bust of a Man with Headgear by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Unknown Image by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Fair at Haarlemmerplein by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Lunchtime at the Building Site on the Van Diemenstraat in Amsterdam by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "View of the Prinsengracht at the Bridge over the Leidsegracht in Amsterdam by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Billeting the Troops by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Scheveningen Girl at the Wash Tub by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Construction Site for the Municipal Bath and Swimming Facility on Heiligeweg in Amsterdam by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Anne, Lying Naked on a Yellow Cloth by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Government Warehouses on the Brouwersgracht in Amsterdam by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Women on the Rokin in Amsterdam by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Construction Workers in and on a Construction Pit at Nieuwendijk in Amsterdam by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Self-Portrait of George Hendrik Breitner by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Willem Witsen at a Desk in His Boat by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Breakthrough of the Raadhuisstraat in Winter by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "A Heath Landscape, Presumably in Drenthe by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "The Rokin, Amsterdam by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Cavalry by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "The Lauriergracht at the Tweede Laurierdwarsstraat by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Labourers Pulling a Heavily Laden Cart on Jacob van Lennepkade, Amsterdam by George Hendrik Breitner")
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_-_Drie_vrouwen_op_een_brug_in_regen_en_wind_-_(MeisterDrucke-1379130).jpg "Three Women on a Bridge in Rain and Wind by Willem Witsen (signed by artist)")
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.jpg "Cityscape, Possibly in Amsterdam by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Standing Nude by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Street Scene with Horses and Carriage in Paris by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Figures, Possibly at a Market or Establishment by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Children Playing in Front of Breitner")
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.jpg "Prinsengracht near Lauriergracht, Amsterdam by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Gust of Wind. Around 1900 by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "View in the Dunes near Dekkersduin, The Hague by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "View in the Woods by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Horses on the Beach, with a Boat and Fishermen in the Background by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "View of the Oosterpark in Amsterdam in the Snow by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Sketch of people on the street by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Ginger Pot with Anemones by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "The Yellow Riders by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Still Life With Roses by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "The Edge of a City by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Landscape near Waalsdorp, with Soldiers on Maneuver by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Construction Site at De Clercqstraat by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Figures in the Fish Market in Delft and Figure Studies by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Drinking man in seventeenth-century clothing and a seated man by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Street Scene at a Busy Intersection in Paris by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Resting Cavalry on a Square by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Distribution of Soup by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Billeting the Troops by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Milking Farmer and a Cow")
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.jpg "The Rokin, Amsterdam by George Hendrik Breitner")
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_-_Plein_bij_avond_-_(MeisterDrucke-1331070).jpg "Square at Evening by Willem Steelink (II)")
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.jpg "Demolition of Buildings in Amsterdam by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Moonlight by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Demolition in an Amsterdam Street by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Marie Jordan Naked Lying on a Bed by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Girl in a White Kimono by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Cavalry by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Lying Horse by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Scene in a Dutch City with Pile Driver in Foreground by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Landscape with Cows by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Girl in a Garden by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Evening on Dam Square in Amsterdam by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "View of the Looiersgracht in Amsterdam by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Cavalry Scene by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "View of a Shipyard on Prinseneiland in Amsterdam by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Portrait of Two Unknown Girls by George Hendrik Breitner")
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_the_Painters_Half-sister_-_(MeisterDrucke-1394592).jpg "Marie Anne Henriette Breitner, the Painter")
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.jpg "The Dam in Amsterdam by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Piling Work in Raadhuisstraat in Amsterdam by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Lady in Studio Behind Harmonium by George Hendrik Breitner")
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