"He painted – was living in Utrecht, [he] immediately attracted attention and had many ideas, got good prices for that time; and once he thought 'Is this really beautiful, as people say - but the people are crazy or I am - I came to the conclusion – the people are wrong - picked up my things and went to Oosterbeek' [Autumn of 1841, where he thoroughly started to study nature: branches, stems, plants. Etc..] (translation from Dutch, Fons Heijnsbroek)."
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version in original Dutch (citaat over Johannes Warnardus Bilders, in Nederlands) Hij schilderde – woonde te Utrecht, [hij] trok aanstonds de aandacht en had veel ideeën, kreeg voor den tijd goede prijzen; en dacht op eenmaal 'Moet dat nu mooi heeten – maar de menschen zijn gek of ik – Ik kwam tot de conclusie – de menschen slaan de bal mis – pakte mijn rommeltje en ging naar Oosterbeek'[herfst `van 1841, waar Bilders grondig studie van de natuur begint te maken: takken, stammen, planten. Etc..]
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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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