"The last two days I have not painted on [his painting of] the Castle [in Vorden!] It is lying now on the roof to dry. it looks terribly gloomy.. .Good-bye, dear Miss. I still have to read in the great German philosopher Schopenhauer, a man who thought that all the misery he saw in life was created by an evil spirit who created this earth. - Good night, dear Miss, it is 2 o'clock in the night, already and the letter must still be mailed by post. (translation from Dutch, Fons Heijnsbroek)."
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version in original Dutch (citaat van Johannes Warnardus Bilders' brief, in het Nederlands): In de laatste twee dagen heb ik niet aan geschildert het legt nu op t dak om uit te drogen. het ziet er verschrikkelijk somber uit.. .Vaartwel zeer geliefde Juffrouw. Ik moet nog lezen in de grote Duitschen wijsgeer Schoppenhauer, een man die om al de ellende welke hij in 't leven vind meende dat de aarde door een booze geest geschapen was. - Goede nacht liefste Juffrouw, het is reeds 2 uur in den nacht
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Johannes Warnardus Bilders
1811 – 1890
Johannes Warnardus Bilders (18 August 1811 – 29 October 1890) was a Dutch landscape-painter who was the father of Gerard Bilders (1838–1865) and a forerunner of the Hague School. In 1880 he married the woman-painter Marie Bilders-van Bosse, his former pupil.
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