Johan Barthold Jongkind, who regarded as a forerunner of French Impressionism, was an important Dutch landscape painter of the 19th century.
Born on June 03, 1819 in Latrop, Overijsel.
Died on February 27, 1891 in La Côte-Saint-André.
Throughout his whole life, the work of Johan Barthold Jongkind, who completed his studies with the well-known landscape painter Andreas Schelfhout, stuck with Dutch landscape painting, even though he is considered a pioneer of French Impressionism. Only the atmospheric sensibility evident in his watercolors and drawings from the 1850s, hinted to his proximity to Impressionism. After a stay in France, one could also detect some influence on his works by Jean Baptiste Camille Corot. Johan Barthold Jongkind, who never painted in the great outdoors as the Impressionists did, shared with them the never-appreciated way of life of the great artists of the 19th century. He died, after suffering many strokes of fate, in the madhouse of Grenoble. |
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Oil Paintings