Amsterdam Impressionism

The Amsterdam Impressionism was a Dutch art movement of the late 19th century.

The Amsterdam Impressionism is rooted in the Hague School and was taken in Amsterdam, especially from a young generation of artists. The painters of both currents painted impressionistic, the two schools differed mainly in the choice of topic: While the Hague painters preferred landscapes and marine views and Atmospheric stressed the Amsterdam painters were concentrated on the realistic everyday life in the Dutch cities.

As a major representative of the Amsterdam Impressionists are George Hendrik Breitner, Isaac Israels and Willem Witsen. They studied at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende kunsten with faculty who were less subject to traditional traditions. 1882, she founded the Friends of " St. Lucas ' ( the patron saint of painters ) to promote the artistic disciplines at the Academy and the collegial relationships among students. They also met the members weekly to Art considerations and lectures.

In 1880 Breitner was over twenty years in The Hague about the artists association Pulchri studio with representatives of the Hague School, as Jozef Israels, Jacob Maris, Anton Mauve and others come in contact. He worked in the Hague studio of Willem Maris and helped Hendrik Willem Mesdag a year later in Scheveningen while painting the famous panorama. 1886, after two years of training at Fernand Cormon in Paris, he returned to the Netherlands and settled in Amsterdam. He broke away from the style of the Hague school and began to paint the Amsterdam city scenes and cityscapes. He worked with quick brush strokes and tried to give a glimpse of life on the road with his craftsmen, housewives, longshoremen, street dogs. His drawings often offered a gray, depressing picture of the streets of the capital. Therefore, he should be known as the painter of the " Impressionism noir".

Other Amsterdam Impressionists were Floris Verster Hendrik Willem Bastiaan Tholen, Kees Heynsius, Willem de Zwart, Dirk van Haaren and Jan Toorop.