It [an owl] is like coming from a fairy-tale, something royal fragile, something that you would never want to touch, Yes to me it has become fully ab… - Jan Mankes

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It [an owl] is like coming from a fairy-tale, something royal fragile, something that you would never want to touch, Yes to me it has become fully absolute because of that silver breast. (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:) Ik houd van en zijn dingen bezitten voor mij een eigenaardige bekooring.. .U zult zelf zeker van Thijs Maris houden en dan weet u.. ..hoe heerlijk het is mee te leven in zijn [Thijs!] kinderlijke innigheid.

I wanted to paint crows in a big spot of lonely black with a digger head and paws. But stronger was nature which forced me to make a beast, sparkling of blue and purple, a subdued pleasure for the eyes. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)

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(original Dutch: citaat van Jan Mankes, in het Nederlands:) Impressionistisch moet hij [ ] vroeger schitterende dingen gemaakt hebben, daarna is hij plots tot een zorgvol teekenen gekomen, in deze tijd heeft hij bv. doode roeken geschilderd, zoo innig zuiver en gelijk monumentaal, dat het me wel het beste scheen dat omstreeks dien tijd gemaakt werd hier [in Nederland].

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