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Hendrik Johannes 'J.H.' Weissenbruch
Den Haag 1824-1903
Landscape with windmills near Monster, oil on canvas 103 x 128,8 cm., signed l.l. and dated 1902
775746/Coll.III cv

Provenance: Kunsthandel Frans Buffa en Zonen, Amsterdam; coll. Henry Reinhardt; coll. Frank G. Logan, Chicago, Verenigde Staten; veiling Kender Gallery, Frank G. Logan Collection Chicago/New York, febr. 1945, cat.nr. 162 (met afb.).
Literature: tent.cat. Manchester, Groot-Brittannië, The Whitworth Art Gallery, 'Mondriaan and The Hague School', 1980, afb. pag. 11; Florence, Italië, Istituto Universitario Olandese di Storia dell ‘Arte, 'Mondrian et l’Ecole de La Haye', 1981/1982, afb. pag. 17; Maarten van der Schaft e.a., 'Schilders van het Westland. Van 1500 tot heden', Schiedam 2010, pag. 69 (met afb. In kleur nr. 67).

Price band: between 100.000 and 500.000 euro

H.J. Weissenbruch is considered one of the most gifted painters of the Hague School. He chiefly painted landscapes on the outskirts of The Hague and the polder land around Boskoop and Gouda. His great strength lay in portraying typical Dutch light – sometimes bright, sometimes diffuse and hazy. He was also fascinated by skies. ‘Sky and light are the great conjurors’, he once said. ‘Both grey rainy skies as well as clear cloudy skies on a summer’s day. Painters can never look too much at skies.’ Weissenbruch gave painting lessons to Victor Bauffe and Theophile de Bock.