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" "Lord, oh Lord, will I return to you once, being a genuine artist. Will all those Art lovers once behold my works with reverence and the laurel of Art then adorn my head.. .I experience so ardently all the beauty of my noble career.. .And once again I call to you, it would be much better not to live at all than being disappointed in my feeling. (translation from original Dutch text: Fons Heijnsbroek).
Jozef Israëls (27 January 1824 – 12 August 1911) was a Dutch painter. He was a leading senior artist of the group of landscape painters referred to as the Hague School. In Israëls' painting art the ordinary people are his dominating subject.
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version in Dutch (citaat van Israëls, in het Nederlands) Die ouwe kleerejood [ in zijn schilderij: 'Zoon van het Oude volk', 1889 ]van mij was 'n jood. Maar niet omdat 't een jood was heb ik hem geschilderd [Israëls was zelf Joods] -.. ..'n schilder schildert als een schilder en niet omdat ie 'n jood is..
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There he Rembrandt stood, when everything was on the canvas [of the 'Night Watch'], but then he shook his head.. ..In his opinion the two men [in the center of the painting: Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch did not yet come forward into the foreground. Then he [Rembrandt] took up his large palette again, dicked his thickest brushes deep into the paint, and once again took on these two front figures with powerful strokes; here more depth, there more light. In this way he put everything to the test, in order to give an even more powerful relief to what needed to stand out. Then he saw that it was good, and that is how he left it. (translation from the original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)