Johan Joseph Aarts
Johan Joseph Aarts (born August 18, 1871 in The Hague , † October 19, 1934 in Amsterdam ; actually Johannes Josephus Aarts ) was a Dutch painter and graphic artist .
Together with his friend Jan Vijlbrief , Aarts belonged to a group of avant-gardists in the mid-1890s who grappled with pointillism . In this style he created six landscape pictures of delicate colors, but turned away from painting and printmaking when he received a teaching position at the Academy in The Hague in 1895. In 1911 he was appointed to a professorship for graphic arts at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam. He held this until his death in 1934. His serious graphic works, especially the late copperplate engravings , form a peculiar contrast to the light serenity of his early paintings.
Works by Aarts are exhibited in the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo , among others .
source
Barbara Schaefer in: Rainer Budde: Pointillismus , ISBN 3-7913-1840-3 , p. 258
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| SURNAME | Aarts, Johan Joseph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Aarts, Johannes Josephus (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch painter and printmaker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 18, 1871 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | The hague |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 19, 1934 |
| Place of death | Amsterdam |