Constant Cornelis Huijsmans

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Constant Cornelis Huijsmans (after 1860)

Constant Cornelis Huijsmans (born January 1, 1810 in Breda , † November 28, 1886 in The Hague ) was a Dutch painter and drawing teacher. He preferred to paint landscapes, but also rural interiors.

Life

Huijsmans was born in 1810 as the son of the painter Jacobus Carolus Huijsmans , who taught drawing at the Koninklijke Militaire Academie in Breda. He received his first training from his father before studying between 1828 and 1830 at the Academy in Antwerp under Mathieu Ignace van Brée . Due to the turmoil of the Belgian Revolution, Huijsmans went to Paris in 1833. Here he met the landscape painters Théodore Rousseau and Jean-Baptiste Hubert (* 1801) through the Dutch painter Ary Scheffer , turned away from history painting and turned to the genre of landscape painting. In 1834 he traveled to the south of France. The following year he exhibited two paintings in the Salon de Paris .

Farmhouse in Brabant , 1849, oil on canvas, 75 × 60 cm

In 1835, due to the blindness of his father, he returned to Breda and followed him as a drawing teacher at the War Academy and the municipal drawing institute. In the following years he sent many Dutch exhibitions with landscapes and rural interiors and became known to a wide audience. In 1854, Huijsmans married Louise Kersten, the daughter of a beer brewer, and thus rose to higher social circles. In 1865 the family moved to Tilburg , where he worked as a drawing teacher for the Koninklijke Hogereburgerschool Willem II from 1866 to 1877 and also taught Vincent van Gogh for two years .

Publications

  • Het Landschap. HJ Backer, Dordrecht 1840: Original work for landscape painters in 6 booklets of 6 sheets each.
  • Grondbeginselen of the tea art. PN van Kampen, Amsterdam 1852.

literature

Web links

Commons : Constantinus Cornelis Huysmans  - collection of images, videos and audio files