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 "Girl in a White Kimono by George Hendrik Breitner")
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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 "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-1707950).jpg "Sara de Swart (1861-1951) 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 "Construction Site at De Clercqstraat by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Children Playing in Front of Breitner")
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.jpg "Reclining Nude by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Standing Nude 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 "Portrait of Marie Anne Henriette Breitner by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Construction Site by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Women on the Rokin in Amsterdam by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Reclining Nude 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 "Street in Montmartre, Paris by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Self-portrait with Pince-nez by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "De Baan in Rotterdam by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "The Rokin, Amsterdam by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Fair at Haarlemmerplein 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 "Street View of the Rokin in Amsterdam by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "The Damrak, Amsterdam by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Draft Horses on the Dam in Amsterdam by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Rokin 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 Hall of House Inter Quercus in Aerdenhout, under Construction 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 "Blacksmith with Gray by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Still Life With Roses 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 Oosterpark, Amsterdam, in the Snow by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "The Dam in Amsterdam by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Self-Portrait with Pince-nez by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "The Leidsegracht, Amsterdam 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 "Cavalry by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Billeting the Troops 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 "Landscape near Waalsdorp, with Soldiers on Maneuver 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 "Heads of Horses and People by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Milking Farmer and a Cow")
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.jpg "Distribution of Soup by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Model Study of a Standing Half-Naked Man, Looking Down by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Neighborhood Street in Rijswijk near The Hague 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 "Seated Boy 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 "Horses on the Beach, with a Boat and Fishermen in the Background by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "The Rokin by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "The Rokin in Amsterdam 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 White Kimono by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "A Group of Houses 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 "Unknown Image by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Rokin with the Nieuwezijdskapel, Amsterdam 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 "Reflection of Canal Houses in the Water at Singel 377 to 385 in Amsterdam by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Market with Flower Stalls 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 "Billeting the Troops by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Cityscape, Possibly Amsterdam by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Sketch of people on the street by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Portrait of Floris Verster by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "New Buildings along the Jacob van Lennepkanaal in Amsterdam by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "The Tar Gardens 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 "Figures, Possibly at a Market or Establishment by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Four Cows by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Ginger Pot with Anemones by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Artillery on Maneuver 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 "View in the Woods by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "A Brown and a White Horse in Scheveningen by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Gust of Wind. Around 1900 by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Gust of Wind by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Prinsengracht near Lauriergracht, Amsterdam by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Cityscape, Possibly in Amsterdam 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 "The Baanbrugsteeg Looking from the Haarlemmerdijk towards the Vinkenstraat and the Brouwersgracht by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Blacksmith Working with a Horse by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Portrait of an Unknown Woman 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 "Unknown Image 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 "Ships in the Ice by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Standing Horse, Facing Left by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Winter in Amsterdam 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 "View of a Shipyard on Prinseneiland in Amsterdam by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Soldier Sitting and Eating by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Construction Site in Amsterdam, c. 1902 by George Hendrik Breitner")
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.jpg "Winter in Amsterdam by George Hendrik Breitner")
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