Amsterdam Impressionism was an art movement in late 19th-century Holland. It is associated especially with George Hendrik Breitner and is also known as the School of Allebé.
Students of the Rijksacademie Amsterdam (1882/83).
Floris Arntzenius (undated): Marktet with flower stalls, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.
Floris Arntzenius (undated): Spuistraat in Den Haag, private collection.
Johan Coenraad Braakensiek (1926): Hartjesdag, Amsterdam Museum.
George Hendrik Breitner was a Dutch painter and photographer. An important figure in Amsterdam Impressionism, he is noted especially for his paintings of street scenes and harbours in a realistic style. He painted en plein air, and became interested in photography as a means of documenting street life and atmospheric effects – rainy weather in particular – as reference materials for his paintings.
Breitner photographed by Willem Witsen
Girl in a White Kimono (1894), Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
The Dam, Amsterdam (c.1895), watercolor, 40 x 51 cm, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Street View in The Hague (?), Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (SK-A-3547).