Jozef Israëls
Jozef Israëls | |
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Groningen, Netherlands | |
Died | 12 August 1911 Scheveningen, Netherlands | (aged 87)
Patron(s) | Jan Adam Kruseman François-Édouard Picot |
Jozef Israëls (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈjoːzəf ˈɪsrɑɛls]; 27 January 1824 – 12 August 1911) was a Dutch painter. He was a leading member of the group of landscape painters referred to as the Hague School and was, during his lifetime, "the most respected Dutch artist of the second half of the nineteenth century."[1]
Early life
He was born in
He subsequently continued his studies in
Sensibility
Israëls has often been compared to Jean-François Millet. As artists, even more than as painters in the strict sense of the word, they both saw in the life of the poor and humble a motive for expressing with peculiar intensity their wide human sympathy; but Millet was the poet of placid rural life, while in almost all Israëls' pictures there is some piercing note of woe. Edmond Duranty said that they were painted with gloom and suffering.[5]
He began with historical and dramatic subjects in the romantic style of the day. After an illness, he went to recuperate his strength at the fishing town of Zandvoort near Haarlem, and there he was struck by the daily tragedy of life. Henceforth, he was possessed by a new vein of artistic expression, sincerely realistic, full of emotion and pity.[5]
Among his more important subsequent works are The Zandvoort Fisherman (in the Amsterdam Gallery), The Silent House (which gained a gold medal at the Brussels Salon, 1858), and Village Poor (a prize at Manchester).[5]
In 1862, he achieved great success in London with his
A portrait of Jozef Israëls was painted by the Scottish painter George Paul Chalmers .
Honours
1886: Officer in the Order of Leopold.[6]
Later work
His later works include The Widower (in the Mesdag collection), When we grow Old, Peasant Family at the Table
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Langs Moeders Graf], 1856
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We Grow Old. Jozef Israëls, 1878
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Alone in the World. Jozef Israëls, 1881
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: A Jewish Wedding. Jozef Israëls, 1903
David Singing before Saul, one of his later works, seems to hint at a return on the part of the venerable artist to the Rembrandtesque note of his youth.[8] As a watercolour painter and etcher he produced a vast number of works, which, like his oil paintings, are full of deep feeling. They are generally treated in broad masses of light and shade, which give prominence to the principal subject without any neglect of detail.
Israëls probably influenced many other painters; one them was the Scottish painter
Personal life
He married Aleida née Schaap and together the couple had two children: a daughter, Mathilde Anna Israëls, and a son, Isaac Lazarus Israëls, born in 1865, who also became a fine art painter. On August 12, 1911 Jozef Israëls died in Scheveningen, The Hague.[2]
References
- ^ Wetering, Ernst van de: Rembrandt; The Painter at Work, page 133. University of California Press, 2000.
- ^ a b Green, David B. (12 August 2015). "This Day in Jewish History, 1911 - A Man Who Painted Bitter Life as He Saw It Dies". Haaretz. Retrieved 16 April 2023.
- ^ Jozef Israëls at the Netherlands Institute for Art History (in Dutch)
- ^ Dieuwertje Dekkers and Anna Wagner. "Israëls." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 24 February 2016.
- ^ a b c d e Chisholm 1911.
- ^ Handelsblad (Het) 11 March 1886
- ^ Israels in Van Gogh Museum
- ^ In his native land, Israëls was late in life viewed as the "reincarnation of Rembrandt. In 1893, the painter and art critic Jan Veth wrote: Rembrandt's great pathos seems to be resurrected in Jozef Israëls". Wetering, pages 133-4.
- Attribution
public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Israëls, Josef". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 885.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in theBibliography
- Jan Veth, Mannen of Betekenis: Jozef Israëls
- Chesneau, Peintres français et étrangers
- Philippe Zilcken, Peintres hollandais modernes (1893)
- Dumas, Illustrated Biographies of Modern Artists (1882–1884)
- J. de Meester, in Max Roose's Dutch Painters of the Nineteenth Century (1898)
- Jozef Israëls, Spain: the Story of a Journey (1900).
External links
- Works by Jozef Israëls at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Jozef Israëls at Internet Archive
- Hecht Museum
- Virtual Scotland Archived 6 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine
- BBC
- Genealogy Israels
- Biographical notes and dates of Jozef Isräels, in the Dutch R.K.D. Archive
- Free images of the art of Jozef Isräels, in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
- Video of the artist's paintings