August Allebé

Born: 1838

Death: 1927

Biography:

August Allebé was a 19th-century 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 (Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten) 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.
He was born in Amsterdam. According to the RKD he followed evening classes at Felix Meritis and studied at the Antwerp Academy, the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He was a pupil of Petrus Franciscus Greive, Adolphe Mouilleron, Charles Rochussen and Louis Royer. He became a member of Arti et Amicitiae in Amsterdam from 1863 and a member of Société Royale Belge des Aquarellistes from 1868. In 1870 he became a professor at the Royal Academy of Amsterdam (Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten) and was a director there from 1880. The RKD lists 179 pupils and it is known that he stayed in correspondence with ex-pupils and several artists came back to the academy to be able to follow classes with him.
He was a strong influence on the Amsterdamse Joffers, and had close ties with Amsterdam Impressionism.
He died in Amsterdam in 1927 and is buried at Zorgvlied cemetery.
A square is named after him in the neighborhood of streets named after 19th- and 20th-century Dutch painters in Overtoomse Veld-Noord, Amsterdam.
In 1880, the Artist's association St. Lucas to Amsterdam was founded with his support. They became part of the Amsterdam art scene, and community center of artists and lovers of painting. Here contacts were made, passed on knowledge and thus the antithesis of successful structured Hague School, which was part of the international movement of impressionism. In addition, links to Amsterdam Soziëteit Arti et Amicitiae were present, which were essential for both institutions.
Floris Arntzenius (1874/1925): Market with flower stalls, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Nicolaas Bastert (1890): Vechtlandschap
Nicolaas Bastert (1890/1919): Een waterplas in een weiland, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Suze Bisschop Robertson (1900): Woman spinning, Gemeentemuseum Helmond
Richard Roland Holst (1888/95): Boomgaard te Eemnes, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Johan Coenraad Braakensiek (1926): Hartjesdag, Amsterdam Museum
George Hendrik Breitner (1893/95): Girl in a Red Kimono
Antoon Derkinderen: De Bazel, Vijzelstraat, Amsterdam
Antoon Derkinderen (1889): Processie van het H. Sacrament van Miracel, Amsterdamse Begijnhofkapel
Leo Gestel (1910): A sunny morning
Arnold Marc Gorter (1900): Vordense Beek in de winter
Hendrik Maarten Krabbé (1900): Young lady
Jacobus van Looy (1890/95): Café, Franz-Hals-Museum
Wally Moes (1900): Sleeping baby
Piet Mondrian (1903): Oostzijdse Mill along the River Gein by Moonlight, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Piet Mondriaan (1908): Mill in Sunlight, Gemeentemuseum The Hague
Piet Mondriaan (1939/42): Composition 10
Hobbe Smith (1913): Gezicht op de IJhaven en de Javakade naar het westen, met een "blauwpijper" van de Nederlandsche Stoomvaart Maatschappij Oceaan-Havengezicht het IJ ten zuiden v-d Handelskade, Amsterdam Museum.
Willem Bastiaan Tholen (1882): De schilder Gabriël aan het werk in de vrije natuur, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Johannes Theodorus Toorop (1885): Annie Hall in Lissadell, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Maurits van der Valk (1917): Stilleven met schelp en schaaltje
Jan Pieter Veth (1885): Portret van Albert Verwey, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Jan Hillebrand Wijsmuller (1900): A winter landscape with houses along a canal

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