'Weiss' always said it so well: 'When you go outside, it's like getting a punch against your chest.. hey ..damned, that's beautiful!!' And that's why… - Willem Maris

'Weiss' always said it so well: 'When you go outside, it's like getting a punch against your chest.. hey ..damned, that's beautiful!!' And that's why we made so many beautiful things in our studio in the Juffrouw Idastraat in The Hague city. The studio was not very special. It was noisy. But going outside suddenly, that moved you so strongly.. (translation from original Dutch, Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)

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About Willem Maris

Willem Maris (18 February 1844, The Hague – 10 October 1910, The Hague) was a Dutch landscape painter of the Hague School, like his two brothers, Jacob Maris and Matthijs Maris. Willem was famous for his paintings with cows in the meadow in the daylight.

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Alternative Names: Willem Marris William Maris Wenzel Marris Wenzel Maris maris william w.m maris W. Maris Maris wilhelm maris Maris W. william maris
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version in original Dutch / citaat van Willem Maris, in het Nederlands: Voor zover ik me kan herinneren is het zoowat 5 of 26 jaar geleden, dat [zijn leerling toen] bij mij schilderde in den .. .Ik had daar een grote tuin en daar schilderde hij zijn dragonders met paarden, die hij daar liet poseren..

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At Heyser [a pub in The Hague] came the venerable old guys [painters]: Smit-Cranz, Coelman a. o. Those were the bigwigs, you see. We were the revolutionaries. And an opposition that we got! - In 't Kurhaus they hang a poster against us during our first exhibition; they named us 'mud painters'. (translation from original Dutch, Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)

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