"It must be emphasized that these paintings [ the Calf, the Cock, the Dog and the Horse have been understood and painted completely outside the area of human feeling and thought. Kruyder doesn't reproduce the animal from the outside - as humans sees them - but, as it were, from the inside, from the animal itself, and there is no doubt that he must have identified himself with these animals for a long time in order to be able to do so. He saw the being of the animal possessed by impulses and he recognized the cruel sensuality of it everywhere. (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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