"It sounds rather strange that one's own teacher-ship would bring someone to great things.. ..but Kruyder explained to me that while teaching and walking up and down behind the drawing and painting easels of his pupils [c. 1926 - in his atelier in Heemstede, Kruyder was 35 years old), because of the busy activity of the others, he felt his own will encouraged as it were, to achieve as much as possible of those great things which were then already stirring in the inside, and to render them in personal imaginations. It was then that he really started painting definitely.. (translation from original Dutch, Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)"
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Herman Kruyder
Herman Kruyder (Lage Vuursche, 7 June 1881 – Amsterdam, 29 April 1935) was a Dutch painter in the time of dutch Expressionism, who made many paintings of animals and landscape, but always with a lot of imagination. He frequently had his mental breakdowns but recovered, as did his wife, the artist Jo Bouman]
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