Bernard Blommers

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bernard Blommers
Bernard Blommers (self-portrait)

Bernardus Johannes (Bernard) Blommers (born January 30, 1845 in The Hague , † December 12, 1914 in The Hague) was a Dutch painter and lithographer . He was one of the younger Dutch painters of the first generation of the Hague School .

life and work

Bernard Blommers was a student of Christopher Bishop. At the Hague Academy he was also taught by Jacob Maris, and in particular by Jozef Israëls . After his stay in Paris from 1870 to 1871, he worked mainly in the area around Scheveningen and Katwijk and in the province of North Brabant . He also painted a piece of the Panorama Mesdag by Hendrik Willem Mesdag .

He was mainly a genre and figure painter of fishermen and beach life, often his pictures resemble the work of Isaac Israëls . His works were already popular with art collectors during his lifetime, especially in English-speaking countries.

His former student, the American artist Caroline van Hook Bean, became Blommer's daughter-in-law in 1913 when she married his son Bart. Blommers was buried in the Oud Eik en Duinen cemetery in The Hague .

photos

  • De little capital . Oil paint on canvas, size 35 × 30 cm.

  • De melkmeid (1914), oil paint on canvas, size 42 × 32 cm.

  • Seaside , oil paint on canvas, 30 × 45 cm.

  • Van Blommer's grave in Oud Eik en Duinen cemetery

literature

  • F. Kuyvenhoven: Index Nederlandse beeldende kunstenaars, kunstnijveraars en fotografen. 2010, ISBN 978-9-07290555-0 (Dutch).

Web links

Commons : Bernard Blommers  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Het schilderij. Retrieved April 27, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Caroline van Hook Bean (American, 19th / 20th Century) (item # 1178313). Retrieved April 27, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Ontdek schilder, watercolorist, panoramaschilder Bernardus Johannes Blommers. Retrieved April 27, 2019 (Dutch).
personal data
SURNAME Blommers, Bernard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blommers, Bernardus Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch painter and lithographer
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH The Hague , Netherlands
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1914
Place of death The Hague , Netherlands