"People call this beautiful? - no, they are crazy, or I am mad! – How I learned now at Oosterbeek [c. 1834-36 that I should look at Nature completely different! In the beginning I could not make anything good; I soon realized that I had to start all over again."
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version in original Dutch (citaat van Johannes Warnardus Bilders, in Nederlands): Moet dat nu mooi heeten? - neen, de menschen zijn gek, of ik! - Wat leerde ik nu te Oosterbeek die Natuur gansch anders aankijken! In 't begin kon ik niets goeds maken; ik zag al gauw, dat ik weer van voren af aan moest beginnen. — p. 78
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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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