Johan Hendrik Weissenbruch

Johan Hendrik Chalking ( born November 30, 1824 in The Hague as Hendrik Johannes Weiss break; † March 14, 1903 ) was a painter from the Netherlands.

Life

Chalking was interested as a boy to painting. He enjoyed drawing lessons from the Hague artist JJ Loew; 1843-1850 he attended the Art Academy. One of his teachers there was Andreas Schelfhout. Above all, he admired Jacob van Ruisdael clouds games that he could study in the Hague Mauritshuis. Together with his nephew Jan, Willem Roelofs and he was the founder of the artists' circle Pulchri Studio. His paintings are those of Andreas Schelfhout initially quite similar. Above all, he painted dark, cloudy skies; fracture in white works, it is not uncommon that the horizon is only a quarter of the height of the whole painting. After 1870 his style became looser. Many critics believe that stress whitening in the last 20 years of his life reached its artistic peak. General stress whitening is considered as one of the painters of the Hague School. White breakdown work was very popular since 1876 in Canada. In 1897 there were in Montreal a major exhibition of his works. As recently as 1900 he attended the French village of Barbizon artists.

Also worth mentioning is that stress whitening, which was sometimes referred to as " sword without mercy " because of his outspoken criticism known to Anton Mauve Please up the work of his protégé Vincent van Gogh sighted. He was probably at that time the only one who did not judge the work in terms of marketability and the emerging artists zusprach courage. "As Mauve said it put a painter in you, Tersteeg said no, and then Mauve has taken against Tersteeg for you party, I was there; and if it happens again, I too will take for you party, now I know your works. " Van Gogh describes a conversation with stress whitening in letter 175 of 13 February 1882. It related to van Gogh's pen drawings Tersteeg declined during Chalking demanded: " ... and then you have to draw with the pen " ( 195). Van Gogh stopped then and turned to watercolor painting for a long time of the spring, which led to a first height of his creative powers, although the works created during his lifetime were referred to as " not for sale ".

Where is his work to see

Many of his works, which are mainly landscapes are on display in museums. Mention may be made in this regard, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, the City Museum in Oss and the Groninger Museum in Groningen.