.I don't love less the gray waters of my Holland, their serious and somewhat sad color, which corresponds so well with the similar gray skies and vap… - Gerard Bilders

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.I don't love less the gray waters of my Holland, their serious and somewhat sad color, which corresponds so well with the similar gray skies and vapors that are hanging there. (translation from the Dutch original: Fons Heijnsbroek)

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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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Alternative Names: Albert Gerard Bilders Albertus Gerardus Bilders a. g. bilders G. A. Bilders G. Bilders Bilders
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I am searching for a tone, which we call 'colored grey'. I mean that all colors, even the strongest, can be brought together in such a way as to give the impression of a warm, vital grey. (translation from the Dutch original: Fons Heijnsbroek)

version in original Dutch / citaat van Bilders' brief, in het Nederlands: Indien u ooit de 'Nachtwacht' op zijn mooist wil zien [toen nog in het Trippenhuis in Amsterdam], doe dat dan tegen twee uur, half drie.. ..een warm licht valt dan op het schilderij, een andere wereld opent zich, een wereld van gloed, licht en onnavolgbare kracht. Ik vind Rembrandt niet alleen schoon, maar, was het nog in de Godentijd, ik zou hem aanbidden.. .Men kan zich in dat schilderij verliezen; het is al afgrond, diep en hemelhoog.. ..dan denk ik ineens aan mijn schilderijen, arme koeien-, melkerijen, en schapen-composities, en twijfel of ik ooit wel iets zal worden..

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