August Allebé artwork • watercolour • drawing • previously for sale Springtime
August Allebé
Amsterdam 1838-1927
1838-1927
Springtime
pencil and watercolour on paper 36.1 x 50.5 cm, signed l.r. and dated '71
This work on paper was previously for sale.
Provenance: coll. G.A. Heineken, Amsterdam; veiling C.F. Roos & Co., Amsterdam, 23 okt. 1894, lotnr. 1; coll. G.A. Heineken, Amsterdam; veiling C.F. Roos & Co., Amsterdam, 23 okt. 1894, lotnr. 1; veiling Frederik Muller & Co., Amsterdam, 17 apr. 1956, lotnr. 1434.
Literature: W. Loos e.a., 'Waarde Heer Allebé. Leven en werk van August Allebé (1838-1927)', Zwolle 1988, pag. 193, nr. 80; Nelly de Zwaan, 'Nederland uit de kunst: 365 dagen kijken en lezen', Warnsveld 2005, 31 mei (met afb. in kleur).
August Allebé made his name first and foremost as a professor and director of Amsterdam's Rijksacademie. From 1880 onwards, a new generation of painters, which included the impressionists G.H. Breitner, I.L. Israels and G. Rueter, developed under his inspiring leadership. Allebé himself was skilled at drawing and painting anecdotal genre pieces, portraits, floral still lifes and animal studies in the Artis zoo. From Amsterdam he took several study trips, mostly in summer, to cities including Andernach and Brussels.
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