Johannes Matthijs Hoogbruinartist • painterGorinchem 1819-1891 Den Haag

Johannes Matthijs Hoog Bruin belonged to the group of 19th-century painters who devoted themselves to the ice view, a genre for which Andreas Schelfhout set the tone early in the 19th century. Mirror-smooth ice to the horizon, skaters and a biscuit under a high cloudy sky were the permanent ingredients of this kind of landscape. In addition, Hoog Bruin painted forest views and summer landscapes, in which he managed to capture the calm atmosphere and warm light of a summer day. The painter lived and worked in Rotterdam for most of his life. In 1888, when he was almost seventy years old, he moved to The Hague.