George Hendrik Breitner
Painting, Visual Artist
1857 – 1923
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Who was George Hendrik Breitner?
George Hendrik Breitner was a Dutch painter and photographer. An important figure in Amsterdam Impressionism, he is noted especially for his paintings of street scenes and harbours in a realistic style. He painted en plein air, and became interested in photography as a means of documenting street life and atmospheric effects—rainy weather in particular—as reference materials for his paintings.
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- Born
- Sep 12, 1857
Rotterdam - Nationality
- Netherlands
- Lived in
- Rotterdam
- Amsterdam
- Died
- Jun 5, 1923
Amsterdam
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on July 23, 2013
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