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Cor Nolteeartist • painter • watercolourist • draughtsmanDen Haag 1903-1967 Dordrecht

biography of Bernardus Cornelis 'Cor' Noltee

The artistic talent of the impressionist Cor Noltee, born in The Hague, became visible at an early age. He attended the academy in The Hague, where he was taught by Willem de Zwart, among others. His main teacher and personal mentor would be Henk van Leeuwen, whose influence is clearly visible in Noltee's work. He was fickle and quickly felt out of place somewhere and liked to go to other places that interested him more. He moved frequently with his family and this also had an effect on the painter's creativity.

He preferred painting landscapes and city and river views in a robust, confident style. From The Hague, Noltee regularly traveled around the country as a painter, but he did not paint much in The Hague itself. In Rotterdam – perhaps following Breitner – he was particularly fascinated by the tug carts with figures on Rotterdam's Maaskaden. For that reason Noltee was called the 'Dordtse Breitner'. In 1933, Noltee and his family spent six months in Mierlo in Brabant, where he came into contact with the painting community around Heeze. He also worked in South Limburg, Amsterdam, Paris and Bruges. Noltee had already built up a reputation and was a member of the Dordrecht Teekengenootschap Pictura.

From 1937 onwards, Noltee settled permanently in Dordrecht, where he seemed to be making a new start with his work. He is fascinated by the picturesque city with its watery environment. In Dordrecht there was a group of impressionists who were captivated by the atmospheric condition and character of the city. Noltee was no longer interested in painting tug carts, he focused on depicting the atmosphere, the decay, the construction activities of the city of Dordrecht and the water landscape in the area. His colour becomes dreamier and grayer and his work 'suggests space and atmosphere'. Noltee became the painter par excellence of the Dordrecht landscape and the Biesbosch. Despite the fact that he presented himself outwardly as an opponent of innovations in art, around the 1960s he increasingly felt the need to innovate and break away from impressionism. In the years that followed he 'secluded himself' in the Biesbosch, where he developed his own expressionism. His previously colourful and sunny palette turned into a palette of grays and browns.

In 1941, Noltee received his first major exhibition in Pictura Dordrecht. The titles of the more than 70 works that hang there express his feelings of melancholy. 'Showery weather, drizzling rain, thaw, demolition, disappearing Dordt, autumn, gray day, windy day, etc.' As a non-Dorden resident, Noltee found a natural connection with the painters of the Dordt School. During the remainder of the war years, Noltee only exhibited at Pictura's members exhibitions

In his introduction to his book 'Cor Noltee, broadly seen', Bert Jintes quotes the reviewer Anthony Bosman who characterized Noltee as follows in an article from 1953: 'Noltee was a painter as one imagined a painter to be: a bohemian, who stood outside the bourgeois society, a man with allure, who expressed his opinion and lived his life with indifference to tongues and the consequences.


previously for salepaintings, watercolours and drawings by Cor Noltee


Cor Noltee | A village path with mother and child, oil on panel, 26.9 x 32.8 cm, signed l.r.

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A village path with mother and child

Cor Noltee | Strolling in the park, oil on canvas, 25.3 x 20.3 cm

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Strolling in the park

Cor Noltee | A village road with mother and child, oil on canvas, 50.2 x 35.1 cm, signed l.r.

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A village road with mother and child

Cor Noltee | A town view, The Hague, oil on canvas, 80.8 x 100.5 cm, signed l.r.

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A town view, The Hague

Cor Noltee | A dune lake in summer, oil on canvas laid down on panel, 20.7 x 35.3 cm, signed l.r.

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A dune lake in summer

Cor Noltee | A self portrait of the artist with red beret, oil on canvas, 40.7 x 30.5 cm, signed l.r.

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A self portrait of the artist with red beret

Cor Noltee | Children in park Merwestein, oil on board, 25.1 x 40.1 cm, signed l.r.

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Children in park Merwestein

Cor Noltee | A painter's class, oil on canvas, 34.0 x 45.0 cm, signed l.r.

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A painter's class

Cor Noltee | Dance hall, oil on canvas, 49.9 x 35.0 cm, signed l.r.

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Dance hall

Cor Noltee | Carts on a bridge, oil on canvas, 50.4 x 40.7 cm, signed l.r.

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Carts on a bridge

Cor Noltee | A horse-drawn cart in the snow in Amsterdam, oil on canvas, 80.8 x 101.0 cm, signed l.r.

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A horse-drawn cart in the snow in Amsterdam

Cor Noltee | Waiting carriages on the Scheffersplein, Dordrecht, oil on canvas, 40.5 x 50.4 cm, signed l.r.

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Waiting carriages on the Scheffersplein, Dordrecht

Cor Noltee | Merwestijnparc in Dordrecht, oil on board, 39.3 x 75.5 cm

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Merwestijnparc in Dordrecht

Cor Noltee | The Wantij parc in Dordrecht, oil on canvas, 37.3 x 45.4 cm, signed l.r.

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The Wantij parc in Dordrecht

Cor Noltee | A busy day in Paris, oil on canvas, 60.1 x 90.3 cm, signed l.r.

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A busy day in Paris

Cor Noltee | Horse show, Dordrecht, oil on board, 12.8 x 23.0 cm, signed l.r.

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Horse show, Dordrecht

Cor Noltee | Summer in the park, oil on canvas laid down on panel, 31.7 x 39.2 cm, signed l.l.

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Summer in the park

Cor Noltee | Children playing near a pool, oil on canvas, 24.4 x 30.2 cm, signed l.r.

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Children playing near a pool

Cor Noltee | A summer picknick, oil on canvas, 34.5 x 49.0 cm, signed l.r.

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A summer picknick

Cor Noltee | Near the Nieuwkerk, Dordrecht, oil on canvas, 41.0 x 60.7 cm, signed l.r.

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Near the Nieuwkerk, Dordrecht

Cor Noltee | Mother with children in a park, oil on painter's board, 38.1 x 47.0 cm, signed l.r.

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Mother with children in a park

Cor Noltee | A view of the 'Nieuwe Kerk', The Hague, oil on canvas, 40.2 x 30.5 cm, signed l.l.

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A view of the 'Nieuwe Kerk', The Hague

Cor Noltee | The river Merwede, Dordrecht, oil on panel, 22.0 x 49.3 cm

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The river Merwede, Dordrecht

Cor Noltee | Paddling children, oil on painter's cardboard, 19.0 x 24.2 cm, signed l.r.

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Paddling children

Cor Noltee | A sunny day on the beach, oil on painter's cardboard, 18.8 x 24.1 cm, signed l.r.

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A sunny day on the beach

Cor Noltee | A view of the Spuistraat, The Hague, oil on canvas, 49.7 x 33.7 cm, signed l.r.

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A view of the Spuistraat, The Hague

Cor Noltee | A ploughing farmer, oil on canvas, 35.3 x 50.5 cm, signed l.r.

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A ploughing farmer

Cor Noltee | A still life with pink roses in a green jar, oil on canvas, 34.8 x 50.0 cm, signed signed l.r.

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A still life with pink roses in a green jar

Cor Noltee | Horses, oil on canvas, 50.0 x 70.0 cm, signed l.r.

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Horses

Cor Noltee | View of the Delftse Poort, Rotterdam, oil on canvas, 60.8 x 100.1 cm, signed l.r.

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View of the Delftse Poort, Rotterdam

Cor Noltee | Ploughing the fields, oil on canvas, 18.0 x 24.0 cm, signed l.r.

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Ploughing the fields

Cor Noltee | Strollers in a park, oil on canvas, 30.2 x 50.2 cm, signed l.r.

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Strollers in a park

Cor Noltee | Playing in a park, oil on canvas laid down on panel, 37.6 x 45.5 cm

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Playing in a park

Cor Noltee | Horsedrawn cart, oil on canvas, 65.2 x 48.5 cm, signed l.r.

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Horsedrawn cart

Cor Noltee | Horse-drawn carriages, oil on canvas, 50.5 x 70.0 cm, signed l.r.

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Horse-drawn carriages

Cor Noltee | Horse-drawn carriage, oil on canvas laid down on panel, 32.5 x 43.4 cm

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Horse-drawn carriage

Cor Noltee | Church attendance, Veere, oil on canvas, 50.0 x 35.0 cm, signed l.r.

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Church attendance, Veere

Cor Noltee | Children playing, oil on canvas laid down on panel, 37.0 x 45.0 cm

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Children playing

Cor Noltee | Provisioning the ships, oil on canvas, signed l.r.

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Provisioning the ships

Cor Noltee | Church, oil on panel, signed l.r.

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Church

Cor Noltee | Provisioning the ships, oil on canvas, 50.0 x 100.0 cm, signed l.r.

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Provisioning the ships

Cor Noltee | Horses on canal, oil on canvas, 50.0 x 100.0 cm, signed l.r.

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Horses on canal

Cor Noltee | Moored boats in a canal, Amsterdam, oil on canvas, signed l.l.

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Moored boats in a canal, Amsterdam

Cor Noltee | A horse-drawn cart, oil on canvas, signed l.r.

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A horse-drawn cart

Cor Noltee | Houses along a waterway, oil on canvas

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Houses along a waterway

Cor Noltee | Bridge connection, oil on canvas

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Bridge connection

Cor Noltee | Flower still life, oil on canvas

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Flower still life

Cor Noltee | Landscape with farm, pen and ink on paper, 12.4 x 30.1 cm, signed l.r.

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Landscape with farm

Cor Noltee | In the Biesbosch, felt-tip pen on paper, 11.9 x 31.6 cm, signed l.r.

Cor Noltee

watercolour • drawing • previously for sale

In the Biesbosch


for salepaintings, watercolours and drawings by Cor Noltee


Cor Noltee | View of The Hague, with the Nieuwe Kerk beyond, oil on canvas, 40.0 x 30.3 cm, signed l.r.

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View of The Hague, with the Nieuwe Kerk beyond

Cor Noltee | A frozen river landscape, oil on canvas, 30.5 x 49.2 cm, signed l.r.

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A frozen river landscape

Cor Noltee | Crowdy shopping street, oil on canvas, 50.3 x 35.2 cm, signed l.r.

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Crowdy shopping street

Cor Noltee | Fishermen on the Wantij, Dordrecht, oil on painter's board, 29.0 x 55.2 cm, signed l.r.

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Fishermen on the Wantij, Dordrecht

Cor Noltee | Three women in the painter's studio, oil on canvas, 70.7 x 90.4 cm, signed l.r.

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Three women in the painter's studio

Cor Noltee | Figures and coach horses by night, oil on canvas, 60.7 x 90.7 cm, signed l.r.

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Figures and coach horses by night

Cor Noltee | Corner of a room in Noltee's house, oil on board, 98.0 x 74.8 cm, signed l.r.

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Corner of a room in Noltee's house

Cor Noltee | Public garden, drawing on paper, 11.4 x 30.5 cm, signed l.r.

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watercolour • drawing • for sale

Public garden

Cor Noltee | Corner near the window; living room of the artist, chalk on paper, 65.0 x 50.0 cm, signed l.r.

Cor Noltee

watercolour • drawing • for sale

Corner near the window; living room of the artist


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