Théophile de Bock
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Théophile Emile Achille de Bock (born January 14, 1851 in The Hague , † November 22, 1904 in Haarlem ) was a Dutch landscape painter, draftsman, watercolorist, etcher and lithographer.
De Bock began working as an employee of the Dutch Railway Company, but then turned entirely to painting. He trained in The Hague with the landscape painters Jan Willem van Borselen , Johan Hendrik Weissenbruch and Jacob Maris , and probably with Willem Maris .
From 1880 De Bock visited Paris and the artists' colony Barbizon several times .
In 1881 he took part in the Panorama Mesdag by Hendrik Willem Mesdag , where he painted the sky and dunes. Around 1880 he worked a lot in Scheveningen and in the Loosduinen area . He went to the province of Drenthe for the first time in the fall of 1885 , and when he returned there the following summer he took Isaac Israëls with him.
His almost deserted landscape paintings are characterized by an almost monochrome coloring.
On the initiative of De Bock, the “Hague Art Circle” was founded as an alternative to the “ Pulchri Studio ”.
literature
- Theophile Emile Achille de Bock in: Biografisch portaal van Nederland (digitized version )
- Théophile de Bock in: Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek (NNBW) (digitized version )
- Théophile de Bock in: Biographical Woordenboek Gelderland (digitized version)
- Jacob Maris : Théophile Emile Achille de Bock - met 90 photogravures - 1903
Web links
- Théophile de Bock. Biographical data and works in the Netherlands Institute for Art History (Dutch)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bock, Théophile de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch landscape painter, draftsman, watercolourist, etcher and lithographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 14, 1851 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | The hague |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 22, 1904 |
| Place of death | Haarlem |