Gijs Bosch Reitz

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The dangerous return
The artist in his studio

Gijs Bosch Reitz (Sigisbert Chrétien Bosch Reitz, born February 20, 1860 in Amsterdam ; † April 9, 1938 ibid) was a Dutch landscape painter.

Gijs Bosch Reitz was first trained as a businessman. After attending the Kunstnijverheidsschool (arts and crafts school) Quellinus in Amsterdam, he studied from October 15, 1884 at the Royal Academy of Arts in Munich in the nature class. He continued his studies from 1885 in Paris at the Académie Julian with William Adolphe Bouguereau and Tony Robert-Fleury .

Back in the Netherlands, he settled in Katwijk aan Zee for a short time . There he created a painting depicting the fleet of herring fishing vessels, which he exhibited at the Paris World's Fair in 1889 and which earned him an honorable mention.

After a stay in Runswick Bay ( Yorkshire ) and in St. Ives he returned to Amsterdam.

  • In Jan Hamdorff's Pub

  • Forest Lane

  • Saint John's Procession

  • Blooming Wisteria at
    the Shiba Temple

  • Portrait of Steffen Calis

  • Latrine on the Lawn at Versailles

From February to June 1889 he was again a student of Fernand Cormon in Paris .

Gijs Bosch Reitz settled in the artists' colony Het Gooi in 1892 , first in Eemnes . From 1893 to 1899 he lived in the Laren artists' colony in North Holland .

In 1901 he went on a study trip to Japan, where he studied Japanese art. In 1918 he visited the United States , where he was curator of Far Eastern art at the Metropolitan Museum in New York until 1927 . Then he returned to Laren.

He died in 1938 in a railway accident.

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SURNAME Bosch Reitz, Gijs
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bosch Reitz, Sigisbert Chrétien
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 1938
Place of death Amsterdam