They say that he [ Floris Verster ] has made beautiful impressionist things in the past, afterwards he suddenly has achieved a tender drawing; in thi… - Jan Mankes

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They say that he [ Floris Verster ] has made beautiful impressionist things in the past, afterwards he suddenly has achieved a tender drawing; in this time for example he painted dead rooks, so intimately pure and at the same time monumental, that it seemed to me the best what was made here [in the Netherlands] about that time. (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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..het schrijnende van die vaak de dingen daarom zo strak en zo pijnlijk geeft is niet in mijn werk (aard) en zoek ik niet. Het spiritueele is hoofdzaak in Vincents werk en daaraan is het picturale ondergeschikt.. .Nu vind ik me zelf het beste thuis (helaas of gelukkig) in een uiterste verfijning van kleur en vorm, altijd nog (al wil ik het soms anders) komt het daarop neer; dat te geven voel ik als het grootste behagen. Nu is 't mogelijk dat dat voor mij het hoogste zal blijven, niet erg; ieder vogeltje zingt op zijn manier.. .Vincent navolgen en geen Vincent van geest zijn ('t is misschien ook niemand toe te wensen) is onzinnig en misdadig.

..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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