I really love Thijs Maris and his works possess for me a peculiar charm.. .You will certainly love Thijs Maris yourself and then you know.. ..how lov… - Jan Mankes
" "I really love Thijs Maris and his works possess for me a peculiar charm.. .You will certainly love Thijs Maris yourself and then you know.. ..how lovely it is to walk along in his childlike ardour. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)
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About Jan Mankes
Jan Mankes (Meppel, 15 August 1889 – 23 April 1920, Eerbeek) was a Dutch painter. He produced around 200 paintings, 100 drawings and 50 prints before dying of tuberculosis at the age of 30. His main motifs were self-portraits, landscapes, birds and animals.
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(original Dutch: citaat van Jan Mankes, in het Nederlands:) Mijn verrassing en dank zijn groot.. .En wat een zending. Wat me wel haast 't meest van alles trekt, ja me echt doet genieten [is] dat kleine boekje ['Wild birds at home', van fotograaf Charles Kirk, London. 1906] met vogels, echt iets om mijn hart aan op te halen. Er zijn foto's bij [van vogels] welke heerlijker gedachten wekken dan alle echte kunst..
(original Dutch: citaat van Jan Mankes, in het Nederlands:) Het [de uil] is net een verschijning uit een sprookje, iets koninklijk teers, iets waar je nooit aan zou willen raken, ja hij is voor mij door die zilveren borst totaal volmaakt geworden.''
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..the distressing aspect of Vincent [van Gogh], who often presents things so tightly and so painfully, you can not find in my work (character), and I don't search for it. The spiritual aspect is the essence in Vincent's work, and the pictorial is subordinate to that.. .Now I feel myself most comfortable (unfortunately or happily) with an extreme refinement of colors and form; it always (although I sometimes want it differently) ends with that: to give [present] what I feel as my greatest happiness. Now it might be possible that this will remain the highest goal for me, not so bad; every little bird sings its own song.. .Following Vincent and being no Vincent in the mind (may be this is desirable for nobody) would be absurd and criminal.
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