Johannes Tavenraat artwork • painting • previously for sale Skaters on the ice
Johannes Tavenraat
Rotterdam 1809-1881
1809-1881
Skaters on the ice
oil on panel 17.0 x 28.0 cm
This painting was previously for sale.
Literature: tent.cat. Ede, Simonis & Buunk Kunsthandel, 'De familie Koekkoek: Vier generaties schildertalent', 2003 afb. in kleur pag. 48; Nelly de Zwaan, 'Nederland uit de kunst: 365 dagen kijken en lezen', Warnsveld 2005, 1 jan. (met afb. in kleur).
Exhibited: Kleef, Duitsland, B.C. Koekkoek-Huis, bruikleen Simonis&Buunk Kunsthandel, Ede, dec. 1994-nov. 2003.
Johannes Tavenraat, eccentric painter and romantic pur sang, was predestined for trade, but at the age of 30 he opted for a career as a painter. Between 1846 and 1860 he worked in Kleve, where he most likely visited the painting school of B.C. Koekkoek. An art critic wrote in 1844 in the 'Kunstkronijk': 'When Mr. T. wanted to settle out of his atmosphere of pompous poetry and propose simple truth, we would have won a talented landscape painter'. In contrast to the extremely detailed painting method of B.C. Koekkoek, Tavenraat painted much smoother and looser in tone.
© Simonis & Buunk