biography of Paul Joseph Constantin 'Constan(t)' Gabriel
Portrait of Paul Joseph Constantin 'Constan(t)' Gabriel
Paul Joseph Constantin Gabriel was the son of the then celebrated Amsterdam sculptor Paul Joseph Gabriel. It was therefore more or less self-evident that he would become an artist and at the age of 12 he attended the evening class at the Rijksacademie. After a failed apprenticeship with B. C. Koekkoek in Kleve - Gabriel would not have enough talent - and lessons from Cornelis Lieste in Haarlem, he went to Oosterbeek in 1853 to become a good landscape painter. Just like the other painters and his friend Anton Mauve, he practiced studying nature there. The story goes that in bad weather he worked for so long that he got ear infections and became deaf. In 1860 he moved to Brussels to try his luck there. He met Willem Roelofs, who had lived and worked in Brussels for some time and became a kind of teacher for him. In the following years Gabriel underwent enormous influence from the six-year-older Roelofs, as well as from the painters of the Barbizon School, whose work was regularly exhibited in Brussels.
it was Roelofs who took Gabriel on a painting tour in the Netherlands and opened his eyes to the beauty of the water-rich Dutch landscape. They may have visited Kortenhoef together for the first time. Lake and peat areas and polder landscape became Gabriel's specialty. He found a wealth of colors in this Dutch landscape, even when the weather was gray and gray. It is reflected in the intense blue that he often used for the sky, the many color nuances of the water, the colors of green in the meadow. In addition to working with color, simplicity and a balanced composition with strong forms are typical of Gabriel's landscapes. A mill, a barge, an eel trap, a fisherman, they were often the ingredients that he had enough.
From 1862, Gabriel returned to the Netherlands for at least three months each year to paint the polder landscape 'truthfully'. Just like the other painters of the Haagse School, he searched for the unadorned landscape, not yet affected by industrialization. First he found that around Veenendaal and in the Gein area, from the 70s in the ponds and peat areas around Abcoude and nearby Kortenhoef and from 1875 around the Nieuwkoopse Plassen. He must have had a good visual memory and, in his own words, he usually needed just one glance to work out his sketch in his studio, with the memory still fresh in his mind. His oil sketches were, just like those of Roelofs, of such high quality that they were often stuck on a panel later on and sold as a painting. One of Gabriel's most important students was Willem Tholen, who came to Brussels for three months in 1879 to get lessons. After that the master and pupil kept in touch. Gabriel went to Kampen for a few summers to stay with Tholen. Then they went into the peat bogs or worked around Giethoorn.
In 1884 Gabriel moved back to the Netherlands and settled near The Hague. The art climate there had become more favorable for 'modern' landscape painters and, moreover, his childhood friend Mauve lived in The Hague. Gabriel settled with his wife on the Kanaalweg in Scheveningen. He became an active member of Pulchri Studio and visited new areas, such as the Kinderdijk area. Also in Kortenhoef, a guest at Klaas Boom in the toll booth at the Zuwe, he continued to find the untouchedness he had been looking for throughout his painting life.
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Farmyard with well
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Morning twilight
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Summer (polder near Giethoorn)
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A canal near Kortenhoef
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A sunny day
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A peat cutter with his barge in a polder landschape
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Early morning near Veenendaal
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Dutch polder landscape
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Mill at sunset
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View on the Proosdijer windmill on the river Winkel
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The red windmill near Abcoude
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Before the storm, at Abcoude
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Early morning in the polder near Kortenhoef
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The red windmill near Abcoude
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Morning twilight
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The first sea bass (early morning)
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Windmill near Leidschendam
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Fisherman in a Dutch landscape
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Angler in a polder landscape
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Windmill near Giethoorn
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Landscape with drawbridge on a rainy day
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A polder landscape with windmills in the distance
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Angler in a rowing boat at sunset
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A ploughing farmer
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The mill path near Kortenhoef, with windmill De Lelie
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Landscape under a cloudy sky
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Windmill 'De Winkel' in backlight
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Windmill in the Westbroekpolder near Zoeterwoude
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Windmill in Dutch landscape at sunset
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Landscape near Oosterbeek
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A polder landscape with windmills
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The windmill
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Fishermen at a duck pond
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Fisherman in the early morning
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Anglers in a polder landscape
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Farmer's wife
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A windmill by sunset
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Feeding the chickens
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Country estate 'Leeuw en Hoofd', Heemstede
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A view of the 'Oostzijdse Molen aan het Gein' Abcoude
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A fisherman in a polder landscape
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Fishermen in a polder landscape
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Haystack
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A view of the church of Elspeet
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A farm along a stream, Giethoorn
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Moored boat
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Corn sheafs
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A view on Epe
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View of Giesen Nieuwkerk
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A traveller in a winter landscape
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Landscape with pond (sketch)
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Le Point du jour
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'Veluws' landscape
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Evening twilight
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A windmill along a waterway, Abcoude
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A flatboat in a polder landscape
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A view of the 'Winkel', Abcoude
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An extensive polder landscape
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A polder landscape with a windmill
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Canal in a polder landscape
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A polder landscape
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A country road
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A windmill
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River landscape
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A polder landscape with windmill
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A view of the 'Proosdijermolen aan de Winkel', Abcoude
Constan Gabriel
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A polder landscape
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A man in a rowing boat
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A windmill in a landscape
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A polder landscape with moored barges
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The church of Elspeet
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A polder landscape with rainbow
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