Jan Derk Huibers (27 December 1829, Deventer - 7 April 1918, Zeist) was a Dutch painter, graphic artist, and art teacher. He painted a wide variety of subjects, but is best known for his genre scenes. Some sources incorrectly give his year of death as 1919. [1]
He was the son of Jan Derk Huibers, a merchant, and his wife, Maria Elisabet née Fonck. His artistic education began with evening classes at the local drawing school, where his teacher was Jacob Jansen Vredenburg . He continued his studies at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, and the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam.
After completing his studies, he stayed in Amsterdam; becoming a member of Arti et Amicitiae. In 1868, he became a teacher at the drawing school operated by the Maatschappij tot Nut van 't Algemeen, a charitable organization. That same year, he married Elisabet Gerarda Hendriks, and began participating in the Exhibition of Living Masters.
From 1872, he also taught at the drawing school in Zwolle. His painting "Away from Home" won the Royal Gold Medal at an Arti et Amicitiae exhibition in 1876. [2] He became one of the first instructors at the newly established Rijksnormaalschool voor Teekenonderwijzers , a teacher training school, in 1881. [3] He was also a board member of the Association for Drawing Education.
In 1895, he was named a Knight in the Order of Orange-Nassau. He retired from all his positions in 1901, and received a pension. [4] His many familiar students include Huib Luns, Co Breman, Franz Deutmann, Leo Gestel, Xeno Münninghoff , Georg Rueter , Kees Smout, Tjipke Visser and Dirk de Vries Lam.
He died at home, at the age of eighty-eight. A street in Deventer has been named after him.
Hendrik (Hendrikus) van de Sande Bakhuyzen was a Dutch landscape painter and art teacher. He was a prominent contributor to the Romantic period in Dutch art and his students and children founded the art movement known as the Hague School. Like his contemporaries Edward Williams, Jacob Maris, and Jozef Israëls, he was part of a family of prominent painters, including son Julius van de Sande Bakhuyzen, daughter Gerardina Jacoba van de Sande Bakhuyzen, and nephew Alexander Hieronymus Bakhuyzen.
Johannes Evert Hendrik Akkeringa was part of the second generation of the Hague School painters. Akkeringa is primarily known for his paintings and watercolours of women and playing children at the beach, women mending nets and intimate tea-time conversations.
Jacoba Johanna (Coba) Ritsema, was a portrait painter from the Netherlands.
The Amsterdamse Joffers were a group of women artists who met weekly in Amsterdam at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. They supported each other in their professional careers. Most of them were students of the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten and belonged to the movement of the Amsterdam Impressionists. Each one became a successful artist. As a group they contributed to the social acceptance in the Netherlands of women becoming professional artists.
August Allebé was an artist and teacher from the Northern Netherlands. His early paintings were in a romantic style, but in his later work he was an exponent of realism and impressionism. He was a major initiator and promoter of Amsterdam Impressionism, the artist's association St. Lucas, and the movement of the Amsterdamse Joffers. Amsterdam Impressionism – sometimes referred to by art historians as the School of Allebé – was the counterflow to the very strong Hague School in the movement of Dutch Impressionism. As a professor at the Royal Academy of Amsterdam he fostered a cosmopolitan attitude toward art and the promotion and motivation of his students, and provided a significant stimulus to developments in modern art.
Arti et Amicitiae is a Dutch artist's society founded in 1839, and located on the Rokin in Amsterdam. The Society has played a key role in the Netherlands art scene and in particular in the Amsterdam art schools. It was and is to this day a hub for artists and art lovers in the city of Amsterdam. It is a private institution which supports artists, maintains social networks and offers a pension fund. In recent times it has been one of the venues for the 17th edition of the Sonic Acts Festival.
Willink van Collenprijs is a former Dutch art award, which was awarded for the first time in 1880 by the Sociëteit Arti et Amicitiae. It was intended as an encouragement award for young artists, and was considered as a national counterpart to the Paris Salon. Its existence of more than 71 years proves the success of Amsterdam's art policy. For many of its winners, it was a valuable boost to their careers in the Dutch art world. Some of the prize winners were also recognized abroad and remain well known today.
Theodorus Antonius Hubertus Maria (Theo) Dobbelman was a Dutch sculptor, ceramist and painter.
Pauline Suij was an artist who attended the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague. She belongs to the second generation of the Hague School and of Amsterdam Impressionism. She was a member of the second of these two Dutch movements of Impressionism.
Ahazueros Jacobus Breman, known as Co was a Dutch painter. He specialized in landscapes, farms and interior scenes, with figures, and was one of the first Pointillist painters in the Netherlands.
Franz Wilhelm Maria Deutmann was a Dutch painter and photographer. He was a member of Arti et Amicitiae and is considered to be part of the Laren School, an offshoot of the Hague School, which is an independent part of the international movement of impressionism.
Thomas Meyer zu Schlochtern is a Dutch art historian and curator, who came into prominence as director of the Arti et Amicitiae and as curator at Rotterdamse Kunststichting in the 1990s.
Johan Henri Gustaaf Cohen, known as Johan Cohen Gosschalk was a Dutch jurist, graphic artist and painter of Jewish ancestry. His sister, Meta Cohen Gosschalk, also became a well known painter.
Wilhelmina "Willie" Cornelia Drupsteen (1880–1966) was a Dutch illustrator. She is known for her graphic work and book illustrations.
Frederika Henriëtte Broeksmit (1875–1945) was a Dutch artist and peace activist.
Anna Martha Elizabeth Bruin (1870–1961) was a Dutch painter known for her landscapes.
Pieternella "Nelly" Cornelia Goedewaagen (1880-1953) was a Dutch painter and printmaker.
Lucia Paulina Keijser (1875-1958) was a Dutch painter known for her floral still lifes.
Dirk de Vries Lam was a Dutch painter who specialized in cityscapes. The name De Vries, from his mother's side of the family, was added, by official permission, in 1897.
Monique Pauline Maria Josephine Toebosch, also known by the pseudonym Paul Rubens, was a Dutch actress, artist and musician. She began her performing career in 1969 and produced improvised music. Toebosch collaborated with Michel Waisvisz in multiple theatre productions and did solo productions before moving into the visual arts scene as an installation artist. She was a lecturer at the audiovisual department of Amsterdam's Gerrit Rietveld Academie; at ArtEZ University of Arts during the 1996–97 academic year; at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten from 1996 to 2000 and was director of the post-academic course DasArts (later the Master of Theatre of the Amsterdam University of the Arts from 2004 to 2007. She was a recipient of the Sandberg Prize and the Arti Medal of Arti et Amicitiae.
Media related to Jan Derk Huibers at Wikimedia Commons
| General | |
|---|---|
| National libraries | |
| Art research institutes | |
| Biographical dictionaries | |
