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Johannes Bosboom Quotes

1817–1891 Netherlands

Johannes Bosboom (The Hague, 18 February, 1817 – 14 September, 1891) was one of the well-known Dutch senior painters and water-colorists of the Hague School - famous especially for his painted church interiors.

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..truly, if I sometimes of my work under the eyes, I love a genre [churches!], which in the fullest sense of saying may be called 'mine'. [the word 'mine' double underlined]

..how with the [Dutch] Romantic movement after 1830 also the love awakened for everything that recalled former times to the mind - including the period of the middle-ages -, and how the sigh grew from it to collect all kind of objects that reassured the taste of those times. Here too, the celebrated [Dutch romantic painter] Nuyen stood in front.

The romantic [Dutch] movement under the leadership of the geniuses Nuyen [c. 1830] also attracted me to follow. And in spite of the fact that in this way people lost their color and embellishment and often degenerating into chic, later on, a more sensible search arose for enlivening of coloration, heightening effect and strengthening the relief.

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