Johannes Warnardus Bilders

Place: Utrecht

Born: 1811

Death: 1890

Biography:

Johannes Warnardus Bilders was a Dutch painter who was the father of Gerard Bilders (1838–1865) and a forerunner of the Hague School.
Johannes Bilders was born in Utrecht and took lessons from Jan Lodewijk Jonxis (1789–1867). After travels in Germany, he settled down in 1841 at Oosterbeek, also called the 'Dutch Barbizon', where he gathered around him many young painters who would later become central figures in the Hague School. Some of these painters were Anton Mauve, Paul Gabriël and his son Gerard Bilders, among others.
In 1846 he returned to Utrecht, where he was employed until 1852. Then he spent one year in Amsterdam where he was acquainted with Jozef Israëls. He went back to Oosterbeek (1855–1858). After some time he went to Amsterdam for a long period (1858–1880), then back to Oosterbeek where he married his second wife, the woman-painter Marie Bilders-van Bosse. They spent there together 10 years; he died on 29 October 1890.
The Little Lake
Wolfhezen Heath, collection Teylers Museum.

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