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 'Singelbrücke 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, 1896-8 by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "The Red Kimono by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Girl in a White Kimono by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "The Earring by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Evening at Square by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Building Site by George Hendrik Breitner")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1393631).jpg "Study after the Model (Geesje Kwak?) by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Construction Work at Sint Agnietenstraat 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 "Gust of wind by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Pile Driving in Raadhuisstraat in Amsterdam by George Hendrik Breitner")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1752060).jpg "Winter (Girls in the Snow) 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 "Hussars in Gallop by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Horses and a Landscape with Buildings by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Head of a Horse by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Bust of a Young Woman by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "View of the Tower of Torenzicht Estate in Poeldijk by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Town Hall in Amsterdam by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Head of a Young Man by George Hendrik Breitner")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1395663).jpg "View in The Hague (?) by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Marie Jordan lying nude on a bed by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Reclining nude, ca 1887 by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Chanteuse by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Head of a Nun by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Reclining Nude by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "View of the Blekerspad in Amsterdam with the mill De Victor by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Portrait of Dr. van Hoorn by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Reclining nude, ca. 1887 by George Hendrik Breitner")
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_Jordan_(1866-1948)_The_Artists_Wife_-_(MeisterDrucke-1395083).jpg "Marie Jordan (1866-1948), The Artist")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Female Nude with Breitner Photographing in the Mirror 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 "Female nude before a mirror 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 "Evening on Dam Square in Amsterdam by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "A Heath Landscape, Presumably in Drenthe 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 "Women on the Rokin in Amsterdam by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Children Playing in Front of Breitner")
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.jpg "View of the Oosterpark in Amsterdam in the Snow by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Nude by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Breakthrough of the Raadhuisstraat in Winter by George Hendrik Breitner")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1564107).jpg "View in The Hague by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Girl in a White Kimono, 1894 by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Prinsengracht near Lauriergracht, Amsterdam by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "The Damrak, Amsterdam by George Hendrik Breitner")
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_-_Drie_vrouwen_op_een_brug_in_wind_en_regen_-_(MeisterDrucke-1380518).jpg "Three Women on a Bridge in Wind and Rain by Willem Witsen (signed by artist)")
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.jpg "The Yellow Riders by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "De Baan in Rotterdam by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Reclining Nude by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Study, Possibly of the Interior of a Carriage by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Heads of Horses and People by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Reclining nude by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Cavalry by George Hendrik Breitner")
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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 "The Demolition of the Grand Bazar de la Bourse on the Nieuwendijk, Amsterdam by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Reclining Female Nude 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 "Head of a Dying Man 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 "Woman")
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.jpg "Hussars by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Children Playing in a Street by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "The Yellow Riders, 1885-86 by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "The Hall of House Inter Quercus in Aerdenhout, under Construction 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 "Meadow Landscape 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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.jpg "Street View of the Rokin in Amsterdam by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Construction Site at De Clercqstraat by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Artillery on Maneuver by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Prinsengracht in Amsterdam 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 "Construction Site 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 "Cavalry at Repose by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "The Singel Bridge at the Paleisstraat in Amsterdam by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Fair at Haarlemmerplein by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "In the Workshop by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Moonlight by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Cavalry by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Scene with Horses Standing in Stream by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Standing Horse, Facing Left by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Soldier Sitting and Eating 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 "Sketch Sheet with Studies of a Gardener 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 "Horses on the Beach, with a Boat and Fishermen in the Background by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Farmstead by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Rokin by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Cityscape, Possibly Amsterdam by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Distribution of Soup by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Study Sheet with Women by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Portrait of an Unknown Woman by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Man Walking Forward, Pulling by George Hendrik Breitner")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-88367).jpg "Corner of Leidsche Square, Amsterdam by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Seated Boy by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Lying Horse by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Standing Woman by George Hendrik Breitner")
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