My surprise and thanks are great.. ..and what a package. What attracts me most of all, yes, really gives me great joy [is] that little book ['Wild bi… - Jan Mankes

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My surprise and thanks are great.. ..and what a package. What attracts me most of all, yes, really gives me great joy [is] that little book ['Wild birds at home', by photographer Charles Kirk, London. 1906] with birds, really something to look forward to. There are pictures in [of birds] which arouse more wonderful thoughts than all real art. (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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Native Name: Mankes
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The lazy, carbon-black mutt, huddled together and missing all kinds of grace has, just because of that my sympathy. Because outward appearance doesn't matter here it is so beautiful and true but also so difficult, that it seems to me almost impossible to reproduce the beast in such a way that not everybody will say: Yuck, what a nasty black beast.. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)

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(original Dutch: citaat van Jan Mankes, in het Nederlands:) Ik wou kraaien schilderen in een groote plek van eenzaam zwart met doodgraverskop en pooten. Maar sterker was de natuur, die me een beest deed maken flonkerend van blauw en paars, een ingetogen oogenlust.

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