Albertus Gerardus Bilders
Albertus Gerardus (Gerard) Bilders (born December 9, 1838 in Utrecht , † March 8, 1865 in Amsterdam ) was a Dutch painter, draftsman and printmaker. He was also an art collector associated with various members of the Hague School .
biography
Bilders was born in Utrecht , where he lived with a break from 1841 to 1845 with the family in Oosterbeek , a village near Arnhem. His father, the landscape painter Johannes Warnardus Bilders , gave him the first drawing lessons . In 1857, Bilders moved to The Hague . From the beginning he concentrated on landscape painting. In the Mauritshuis he copied Paulus Potter's landscapes with cattle and for a while he was a student of the landscape and animal painter Charles Humbert in Geneva, Switzerland.
In 1859 he became a member of the Felix Meritis artist community in Amsterdam.
In 1860 he traveled to Brussels with his father and studied pictures from the Barbizon School there .
Later he painted in the area of Leiden, where he often painted pastures with cattle. He tried to reproduce the mood of the landscape with special lighting effects. He anticipated the style of the Hague School .
He later returned to Oosterbeek for some time, where he met Anton Mauve and the Maris brothers . He died in Amsterdam when he was only 26.
gallery
Cows by a pond .
- Pasture near Oosterbeek
Swiss landscape .
Sunset .
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literature
- Sillevis, John and Tabak, Anne, The Hague School Book , Waanders Uitgegevers, Zwolle, 2004 (pp 281–387)
- Bilders, Gerard at the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie .
- AG Bilders, Brieven en dagboek . (2 delen). AW Sijthoff, Leiden 1876 (tweede druk) - letters and diaries
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bilders, Albertus Gerardus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bilders, Gerard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch painter, draftsman and printmaker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 9, 1838 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Utrecht |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 8, 1865 |
| Place of death | Amsterdam |