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Hendrik Willem Mesdag
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“Roelofs' [his teacher then] advice is to paint rather thick, that is to say firmly in the paint and use this preferably without any oil or turpentine.. .I hope you will understand it well, not thick in color, because he [Roelofs] only achieves that haze and the strength of colors by painting it over repeatedly. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)”
Hendrik Willem Mesdag (1831–1915) first seen 1867 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In a letter of Hendrik Willem Mesdag [Roelof's student then in Brussels], 7 Jan. 1867 to ; Museum Mesdag, Archive, The Hague
“..Tadema wrote me that you both agreed that I must not exhibit these two paintings [which Mesdag painted in 1868-69]; [because] they were not yet complete enough for my reputation in Brussels. That's why I will not exhibit this year in Brussels, for I tell you sincerely that I cannot do better at the moment.. .I had very little pleasure from my exhibited paintings in The Hague; they were hanged badly, so people couldn't almost see them, but what can you do? Suffer and keep your mouth. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)”
Hendrik Willem Mesdag (1831–1915) first seen 1868 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (original Dutch: citaat van Hendrik Willem Mesdag's brief, in het Nederlands:) .. heeft mij geschreven dat U beiden het ermee eens bent deze twee schilderijen [van Mesdag die hij had gemaakt in 1868-69] niet tentoon te …
“I thank you for being so sincere in telling me honestly your opinion on the paintings sent to Paris ['Une journée d'hiver à Scheveningue' (a winter-view) and 'Les Brisants de la Mer du Nord' (a sea-scape)]. I am pleased that you really like the large sea piece. As far as the other painting is concerned [winter-view].. ..in a frame and well placed in my studio, most artists [in The Hague] preferred the Winter day. However, that doesn't say enough yet and I am therefore pleased that you gave so honestly your [critical] opinion. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)”
Hendrik Willem Mesdag (1831–1915) first seen 1831 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In a letter to his Belgium friend A. Verwee, 19 March 1870; as cited in Hendrik Willem Mesdag 1831 – 1915; De Schilder van de Noordzee, Johan Poort; Mesdag Documentaire Stichting cop, ISBN 90-74192-14-9; 2001, p. 41
“I have studied the subject and painted it directly to nature [his painting 'Scheveningen strandgezicht / Scheveningen, beach view'] and I have tried to reproduce that motif simply and unaffectedly, with no desire to make a painting with a lot of 'éclat' [glow]. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)”
Hendrik Willem Mesdag (1831–1915) first seen 1869 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (original Dutch: citaat van Hendrik Willem Mesdag's brief, in het Nederlands:) Ik heb het onderwerp bestudeerd en geschilderd direct naar de natuur [zijn schilderij 'Schevenings strandgezicht' uit 1869] en ik heb getrac…
“I have rented a room in Scheveningen to make studies from nature. It is a room with view on the sea; I hope to make there beautiful things, and to keep moving forward. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)”
Hendrik Willem Mesdag (1831–1915) first seen 1831 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In a letter to his Belgium friend A. Verwee, 28 Mai 1871; as cited in Hendrik Willem Mesdag 1831 – 1915; De Schilder van de Noordzee, Johan Poort; Mesdag Documentaire Stichting cop, ISBN 90-74192-14-9; 2001, p. 17
“It was fatal news: the sudden death of our boy, a three-day illness ended his life. What is our house empty.. .,which for eight years [age of their son] was the illusion of our lives. Fortunately for us that we love art and let us hope that we [Mesdag and Sientje, his wife] continue to dedicate our lives to our painting, which has given me already so much pleasure.. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)”
Hendrik Willem Mesdag (1831–1915) first seen 1831 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In a letter to his Belgium friend, the painter A. Verwee, 12 Oct. 1871; as cited in Hendrik Willem Mesdag 1831 – 1915; De Schilder van de Noordzee, Johan Poort; Mesdag Documentaire Stichting cop, ISBN 90-74192-14-9; 200…
“..the art-reviews on my work in the French and English magazines.. ..[are] enough to claim that I already have reached a prominent position among today's marine painters. I would also like to take this fact into consideration when determining my prices. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)”
Hendrik Willem Mesdag (1831–1915) first seen 1870 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In a letter to art-sellers Goupil in The Hague, 1870's; as cited in De Copieboeken of De Wording van de Haagsche School, Johan Poort; Mesdag Documentatie Centrum, Wassenaar, 1996, pp. 89-90
“At the coast you can see the most beautiful sea. I also made my panorama there. I regard it as my most important work; because it gives such a huge impression of nature. But I don't like to start it all again; to paint sixteen hundred meters of canvas there.. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)”
Hendrik Willem Mesdag (1831–1915) first seen 1881 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote of Mesdag (after 1881), cited by Godfried Bomans?, in magazine De Volkskrant, 23 July, 1966
“Dear Lords, I hereby have the Honor to announce You that the painting 'Het Binnen komen der Haringschuiten in Scheveningen' has been sent today to your address, for your upcoming Exhibition [in Arti, Amsterdam]. The price is f 2500-. I also declare to stay out of competition for the medal. Yours sincerely HW Mesdag. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)”
Hendrik Willem Mesdag (1831–1915) first seen 1882 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In a letter of H.W. Mesdag, from The Hague, 7 Oct 1882, to Commiss die van Beheer of 'Arti et Amicitiae' in Amsterdam; from the original text in Dutch R.K.D. Archive, The Hague
“..at home [in Brussels, 1869] I was messing around all winter long with a painting; it was a coast, but painted so primitive. Then I said: you must see the sea in front of you, every day, you have to live with it, otherwise it doesn't work. Then we went to The Hague. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)”
Hendrik Willem Mesdag (1831–1915) first seen 1869 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (original Dutch: citaat van Hendrik Willem Mesdag, in het Nederlands:) ..thuis [in Brussel, 1869] had ik een heelen winter aan een werkstuk zitten scharrelen; 't was een kust, maar zo naiëf geschilderd. Toen zei ik: je …
“That splendid, head, in which everything is said that can be said; color, line, tone, expression; the slightly advanced head, with the soft, almost human eyes, I never enter my studio in the morning without my eye falling upon this creature and wishing it 'Good Morning'.”
Hendrik Willem Mesdag (1831–1915) first seen 1903 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: note of H.W. Mesdag, published in the exhibition catalogue of Corporation Gallery of London, the Guildhall, in 1903; as cited in the catalogue of The American Art Galleries Madison Square South, New York, 3 March 1920
“And you know, if my wife haven't said some forty years ago: do it, let's go to Brussels to study painting, [with a. o. Willem Roelofs ], then I probably would never have left my business [in banking]. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)”
Hendrik Willem Mesdag (1831–1915) first seen 1906 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote of Mesdag; as cited by , in his article 'Onder de menschen. Een gouden schilders-bruiloft', in Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant', 11 March, 1906
“In Groningen [where Mesdag stayed till 1866] I also lived at the harbour, and I always used to chat with those skippers. Afterwards Willem Roelofs and Tadema taught me a lot, in the years from '66 to '69 in Brussels. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)”
Hendrik Willem Mesdag (1831–1915) first seen 1906 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote of Mesdag; as cited by , in his article 'Onder de menschen. Een gouden schilders-bruiloft', in Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant', 11 March, 1906
“What I've made there - about some years ago, you will never see that again! It's all over; with Scheveningen it's finished. And when I didn't still know everything about the past from those sketches, indeed it [his painting] was definitely over. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)”
Hendrik Willem Mesdag (1831–1915) first seen 1906 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote of Mesdag, as cited by , in his article 'Onder de menschen. Een gouden schilders-bruiloft', in Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant, 23 March 1906
“Those two [ Alma Tadema and Roelofs, teaching both Mesdag in Brussels, 1867-69] instructed in exactly the opposite way, you know. For example, Roelofs used to say: you must put more color in that drawing [often meant: watercolor]. And you didn't always saw it yourself in a moment, because you were not yet that far and as high as the master himself was. But Tadema did something completely different; he had more the manners of a professor, who gave his lectures. So Roelofs and he actually complemented each other. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)”
Hendrik Willem Mesdag (1831–1915) first seen 1867 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (original Dutch: citaat van Hendrik Willem Mesdag, in het Nederlands:) Die twee en , onderrichtten beiden Mesdag in Brussel, 1867-69] onderwezen op precies tegengestelde manier, zie je. Roelofs zou bijvoorbeeld zeggen: …
“I stared at her for many months in my life with a never fading love and with an interest that never diminished. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)”
Hendrik Willem Mesdag (1831–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote of Mesdag, as cited by J. Poort in Artiste peintre à La Haye, Wassenaar 1981, p. 66
“Dear Brother-in-Law - Sister. We are ailing again rather well through the winter, always busy and working. It is a pity that the opportunity for [making] new studies has not yet come, it is always a nice variation. Now it is every time again sea and pinks, etc. [subjects in his paintings]. - For Paris I am very busy - To Vienna a painting will be send.. .A second large painting has gone to Brussels - A [xxxx?] will offer drawings of us [drawings of him and his wife] and , at this moment they are crossing the Great Water, with destination to New York where they will be exhibited - we hope with success - Two beautiful paintings has enriched our collection again, one of Dupre and one of Rousseau. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)”
Hendrik Willem Mesdag (1831–1915) first seen 1882 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In a letter from The Hague, 15 Feb 1882 to Brother-in-law and Sister (Hindrik van Houten and Alida Cornelia Christina van Houten ten Bruggencate) from the original text in Dutch R.K.D. Archive, The Hague
“Dear Niece Angel, - Thank you for your words of condolence in the death of [[w:Sina Mesdag-van Houten|my loved one - Wife]. At the funeral it turned out again how much she is honored and loved by all. She was the sun in my life, and although painfully affected, I remember in silent melancholy the many years that I might kept her. Fortunately, the end has been calm and quiet and because of this she has been spared for even greater pains by her illness (calcification of the arteries). I hope to find in my work consolation and distraction for the irreparable loss.- With friendly greetings Your affectionate Nephew HW Mesdag (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)”
Hendrik Willem Mesdag (1831–1915) first seen 1909 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote from a short letter of Mesdag, ’s Gravenhage 2 April 1909, to his niece Engeltje de Haan-Mesdag; from the original text in Dutch R.K.D. Archive, The Hague