"Even though many have seen Bilders studying nature with the greatest zeal and the noblest enthusiasm of studying nature, everyone will realize that an artist with such a poetic soul, processing his impressions, did not give what is called a faithful, elaborate imitation of nature.. .In our imagination we see Bilders, whom we saw so often at work, with a large pallet and broad brushes, standing at a certain distance from his canvas.. (translation from Dutch, Fons Heijnsbroek)"
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version in original Dutch (citaat van Johan Gram, in Nederlands): Al hebben dan ook velen Bilders met den grootsten ijver en de edelste geestdrift aan het studeeren naar de natuur gezien, iedereen beseft dat een kunstenaar met zulk eene dichterlijke ziel, bij het verwerken zijner indrukken niet gaf wat men eene getrouwe, uitvoerige nabootsing der natuur noemt.. .In onze verbeelding aanschouwen wij Bilders, dien wij zoo menigmaal aan 't werk zagen, met groot palet en breede kwasten, op zekeren af
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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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