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 Red Kimono 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 "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 "Portrait of Margaretha Breitner, Sister of the Photographer by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Winter View over the Amstel 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 "Plowing a Field with Horses by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Woman, Possibly on a Bridge by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Marie Breitner and a Girl Awakening in Bed by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Cement Mill in a Winter Landscape near the Overtoom in Amsterdam by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Demolition of Buildings in Amsterdam 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 "Rokin with the Nieuwezijdskapel, 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 "Reclining nude by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Draft Dog Pulling a Cart with Barrels by George Hendrik Breitner")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1395663).jpg "View in The Hague (?) by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Cyclist on the Keizersgracht in Amsterdam by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Cityscape, Possibly Amsterdam by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "View Through the Omval Gate in Haarlem by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Reclining Female Nude by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "The Rokin by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Gust of Wind. Around 1900 by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Neighborhood Street in The Hague or Scheveningen by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Construction Worker at Work in the Snow in Amsterdam 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 "Artillery on Maneuver 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 "Two Seated Men by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Cavalry Scene 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 "Portrait of Willem Witsen at the Window of His Boat 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 "Yellow Riders on Horseback Near Arnhem by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Cat on a chair in Breitner")
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.jpg "Man")
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.jpg "Building Site, Amsterdam 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 "Horses on the Beach, with a Boat and Fishermen in the Background by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "View of the Tar Yards on 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 "Female Nude Before Mirror 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 "Cityscape, Possibly in Amsterdam 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 "The Rokin, 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 "Hussars Standing Next to Their Horses by the Roadside by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "The Damrak, Amsterdam 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 "Cavalry Scene 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 "View of the Dam in Amsterdam by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Sketch of a Country Road 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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_-_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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_-_Plein_bij_avond_-_(MeisterDrucke-1331070).jpg "Square at Evening by Willem Steelink (II)")
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.jpg "Portrait of Marie and Lise Jordan by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Self-Portrait with Pince-nez 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 "Sailing Ships in the Timber Port in Amsterdam by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Group Portrait of Workers at Van Diemenstraat in Amsterdam by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Seated Boy by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Reclining Nude by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Ships at Binnenkant and Oude Waal in Amsterdam by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Horses on the Cruquiusweg by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Unknown Image by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Portrait of Two Unknown Girls 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 "Meadow Landscape by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Building Site, Amsterdam by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Cavalry at Repose by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Still Life With Roses by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Scene with Horses Standing in Stream by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "View of Brussels-North Station and Rogier Square in Brussels by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Street Vendor from a Handcart on the Rokin in Amsterdam by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Construction Workers in a Construction Pit on Van Diemenstraat in Amsterdam by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Four Young Women on the Street in Front of Tasting Room Koggink in the Runstraat in Amsterdam by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Demolition in an Amsterdam Street 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 "Bird Head and Two Figure Studies by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Reclining Nude by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Heads of Horses and People 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 "Reclining Nude Woman by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "New Construction at the Overtoom in Amsterdam by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Galloping Hussars in Front View by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Construction Site 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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.jpg "View of the Looiersgracht in Amsterdam 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 "Blacksmith Working with a Horse by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Study Sheet with Figures and a Cow 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 "Resting Cavalry Along a Railway 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 "Yellow Riders of the Horse Artillery by George Hendrik Breitner")
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