Despite the fact that the three medieval villages Egmond aan Zee, Egmond aan den Hoef, and Egmond‐Binnen had been visited and painted by artists such…
Category: The Netherlands
In the summer of 1882 Max Liebermann, a well-dressed young man from Berlin, accompanied by his Dutch friend, the painter Jozef Israëls arrived in the…
Today, Volendam is a big tourist destination in the Netherlands, situated next to the water and close to Amsterdam. Its traditional fishermen’s town status, full…
After the success of the Oosterbeek colony, and with the industrialisation of cities like Rotterdam and Amsterdam, the artists drawn to landscape painting were looking…
Part of the Barbizon naturalist tradition, the small and picturesque village of Oosterbeek became home to one of the first Dutch artists’ colonies. Situated between…
In the words of writer Jac P. Thijsse: “The Jansberg near Mook, with its immediate surroundings is, botanically, one of the richest landscapes in the…
Seaside resorts seem to attract artists by their very nature. In Domburg the attraction was enhanced by the unspoilt beauty of the surroundings, the special…
At the end of the 19th century, a colony of artists arose in the northern Veluwe, increasing the popularity of the area as a tourist…
Katwijk being the home of painter Bernard Blommers, the artists’ colony became truly bustling with artistic life in the 1880s, when more artists settled down…