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If you ever want to see the 'Nightwatch' [by Rembrandt ] at its best, visit it at two o'clock, half past three afternoon.. ..that time a warm light f… - Gerard Bilders
" "If you ever want to see the 'Nightwatch' [by Rembrandt ] at its best, visit it at two o'clock, half past three afternoon.. ..that time a warm light falls on the painting [then located in the Trippenhuis in Amsterdam]; another world opens, a world of glow, light and inimitable power. I think Rembrandt is not only beautiful, but – were we still in the Age of the old Gods, I would worship him. You can lose yourself in that painting; it is a complete abyss, deep and sky-high.. ..then suddenly I think of my own paintings - poor cow, dairy, and sheep compositions, and I doubt, will I ever become something..
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About Gerard Bilders
Albertus Gerardus "Gerard" Bilders (9 December 1838 – 8 March 1865), son of painter Johannes Warnardus Bilders, was a Dutch landscape-painter who foreshadowed with his typical 'warm grey' the tonal painting style of the Hague School painters. He was frequently painting in plein air with Anton Mauve, and Willem Maris around the village Oosterbeek.
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Friday 11. I have found there [at the [[w:Mauritshuis|museum 'Mauritshuis'] ]] already refuge - in front of Potter's big Bull. That is I started to copy the sheep with the lamb, which will not be a easy task, notwithstanding its great simplicity. The longer I look at that painting, the more beautiful things become visible to me, and when I wasn't convinced for sure that I was sitting in front of my painting easel in The Hague at the Mauritshuis, I would believe that the animals were alive and were - just as in the meadows in Oosterbeek - staring at me with their stupid faces, and asking: - what are you doing there? (translation from the Dutch original: Fons Heijnsbroek)
version in original Dutch / citaat van Gerard Bilders' brief, in het Nederlands: ..zóóveel is voor het minst zeker, dat het zien en bestuderen der groote Hollandsche meesters mij opwekt en aanspoort tot het kinderlijk volgen der natuur en zooveel mogelijk daarin die kleine naïveteiten en finesses op te merken en getrouw weer te geven, die zoo noodig zijn om een schoon geheel daar te stellen.
version in original Dutch / citaat van Gerard Bilders' brief, in het Nederlands: ..Nu is er maar één ding, dat hinderlijk is en waar niemand iets aan veranderen kan, het is, dat de dagen zoo schrikkelijk kort zijn door het donkere weder. Voor aanleggen[?] en schetsen gaat het nog, maar fijne toonen en tinten te begluren en weder te geven zou nu eene onmogelijkheid zijn. Vooral op het Museum is het somtijds bijzonder duister.
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