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| Dutch Artists: J: Jongkind, Barthold |
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Johan Barthold Jongkind (1819-1891) |
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Binneshaven, Rotterdam |
Skaters in Holland |
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In 1836 Johan Barthold Jongkind [born in the town of Lattrop in the Overijssel] begun going to The Hague Drawing Academy in the evenings and to Andreas Schelfhout's studio during the day. In 1846 he left for Paris with a royal scholarship to continue his studies with Eugène Isabey. In France, jongkind made contact with the Barbizon Painters- Ziem, Diaz, Lapito, Rousseau, Troyon, Daubigney, and Corot. In 1854 he fled from Paris for financial and emotional reasons and returned to his old place of residence, Rotterdam. In 1860, however, his French colleagues enabled him to return to Paris through the proceeds from the sale of works they had donated. Jongkind was admitted into the artists' group Cercle Mogador, which included the Barbizon landscape painters. Until 1869 he still went regularly to the Netherlands, and the Dutch landscape would never disappear from his oeuvre. In France he did much painting at first on the Brittany and Normandy; after the mid-1870s his interest was transferred to the center of France, especially the Lior region, and after 1878 to the South of France, particularly the surroundings of La Côte-Saint-André, where he settled. Jongkind was a very original artist, who was also seen by his contemporaries as the forerunner of Impressionism. His vibrant loose style (possibly created as a result of his excessive use of alcohol) and his clear, but at the same time atmospheric, use of color were much appreciated by the younger generation of artists, among them Monet and Pissarro. The period 1860-1875 is generally viewed as the highpoint of his career, afterward his production decreased. Even so, he made fine watercolors and drawings during the 1880s. Partly because of his precarious health, Jong kind retreated more and more from the Parisian artistic circles during the last years of his life. Only after his death did he receive recognition in the Netherlands. from: Dutch Art: an Encyclopedia; Sheila D. Muller ed.; 1997 |
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Rotterdam |
Windmill near the Water |
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The Port of Rotterdam |
'Rue De Village, Hollande' |
Links: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Johan_Barthold_Jongkind http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/jongkind/ http://the-athenaeum.org/art/by_artist.php?id=403 http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/art.asp?aid=2951 images used with permission from the Art Renewal Center (ARC). |
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