Gerard Bilders

Albertus Gerardus (Gerard ) Bilders ( born December 9, 1838 in Utrecht, † March 8, 1865 in Amsterdam) was a Dutch painter and art collector, who stood with various members of the Hague School in conjunction.

Biography

Bilders was born in Utrecht, where he served as the family in Oosterbeek, a village near Arnhem lived with an interruption from 1841 to 1845, lived. His father, the landscape painter John Warnardus Bilders gave him his first drawing lessons. 1857 moved Bilders to The Hague. From the beginning, he concentrated on landscape painting. In the Mauritshuis he copied Paul Potters landscapes with cattle and he was for a while a pupil of the landscape and animal painter Charles Humbert in Geneva, Switzerland.

In 1859 he became a member of he community of artists Felix Meritis in Amsterdam.

In 1860 he traveled with his father to Brussels and studied pictures of the Barbizon School.

He later painted in around Leiden, where he painted more pastures with cattle. He tried to play through special lighting effects the mood of the landscape. So He took the style of the Hague school anticipated.

He later returned for some time after Oosterbeek, where he met Anton Mauve and the Maris brothers. He died at the age of 26 in Amsterdam.

Gallery

Swiss Landscape

Sunset