Artist: George Heidrik Breitner
Date: 1887
Size: 2245 x 1340 cm
Museum: Kunstmuseum (The Hague, Netherlands)
Technique: Oil On Canvas
It was at the Art Academy in The Hague that Breitner learned life drawing but he totally rejected the Academy’s classical ideals. It expected ‘… me [Breitner] to turn every Dutchman into a handsome Greek. Yes, really! But I wasn’t going to do that. I told them, “My business is only with the fellow you put in front of me. Not with what might perhaps be beautiful!”
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