Paul Gabriël
Paul Joseph Constantin Gabriël (born July 5, 1828 in Amsterdam ; died August 23, 1903 in Scheveningen ) was a Dutch painter, sculptor and member of the “ Hague School ”.
life and work
Paul Gabriël, son of the painter and sculptor Paul Joseph Gabriël (1785–1833), attended the Amsterdam Academy of Fine Arts, but was mainly influenced by BC Koekkoek in Kleve and later in Haarlem by Anton Mauve, who was ten years his junior . So he looked for his first motifs for his landscapes in Oosterbeek and Veenendaal . Most of his polder landscapes, however, were created in the vicinity of the village of Kortenhoef . From 1860 to 1884 Brussels, where his compatriot and friend Willem Roelofs also lived, was his permanent residence. From there he went on study trips to the Netherlands in the summer. He lived in Scheveningen for the last two decades.
Gabriël was one of the leaders of the so-called Hague School, through which the rebirth of Dutch art took place in the second half of the 19th century. It was also the oldest of this group; its development was entirely prepared by the old school around Lodewijk Schelfhout and Koekkoek. In his early works there is also occasionally - as with JH Weissenbruch - the romantic spirit through which the new life in Dutch painting first showed itself, later it became more modern, freer in the design.
Well trained in his craft, he rose above the conventional but skilful imitators of the 17th century Dutch and penetrated the spirit of the specifically Dutch landscape art of the 17th century even further than any of his famous contemporaries. The essence of his art is full of simplicity and honesty. His work is therefore less striking than that of the Maris , Weissenbruchs and Mauves .
He differs from the Dutch Impressionists in that he surrenders less violently to the impression that suddenly storms on him, with more persistence in capturing a mood he once felt. His ideal of beauty lay in the Dutch polder landscape, nature far from the noise of the big city. Apparently overshadowed by other masters of the Hague School during his lifetime, Gabriël is now being honored to an ever greater extent.
photos
Landscape near Kortenhoef
He comes from afar
In the month of July
Windmill by the lake
Moat at Abcoude
Remarks
- ↑ Painted by Thérèse Schwartze in 1899 .
- ↑ In the Kröller-Müller Museum .
literature
- Ulrich Thieme: Gabriel, Paul Joseph Constantin . In: General encyclopedia of visual artists from antiquity to the present. Seemann, Leipzig 1999, ISBN 3-363-00729-9 . Volume 13, p. 17.
Web links
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gabriël, Paul |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gabriël, Paul Joseph Constantin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch painter and sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 5, 1828 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Amsterdam |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 23, 1903 |
| Place of death | Scheveningen |
- ^ Paul Gabriël in the database of the RKD