George Hendrik Breitner
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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 styl
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
Reclining woman, oil on canvas (c. 1888), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Girl in a White Kimono
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Girl in a White Kimono is an 1894 oil painting by George Hendrik Breitner. The subject of the painting is the sixteen-year-old Geesje Kwak, of whom Breitner made a series of photographs and paintings
George Hendrik Breitner
…championed impressionism and naturalism against romanticism, influencing other painters such as Isaac Israëls, Willem Witsen, and poets like Willem Kloos. Girl in a White Kimono (1894), Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam In 1886, he entered the Rijksakademie of Amsterdam, but soon it became clear that Breitner was far beyond the level of…
Geesje Kwak in c. 1894, photographed by Breitner