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Jan Mankes
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“.. a crow, a quick, tame animal with immaculate feathering walks around here at home; I hope to be able to benefit a lot of it, because I love crows so much. The surroundings here [of ] are very different than around Delft; more forest, sometimes even heath, often overgrown with beautiful, white birch trees. I have not yet come to work outside however, because, when I think of my crow I walk home again, but may be it change, who knows. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)”
Jan Mankes (1889–1920) first seen 1889 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In a letter of Jan Mankes to , July 1909; as cited in in 'Jan Mankes, 15 augustus 1889 – 23 april 1920', published in Jan Mankes, A. Mankes-Zernike & R. N. Roland Holst, Utrecht, 1928, pp. 8-9
“..drivers, docker and skippers.. ..at the canal the whole day they are loading peat and every horse stands still for half an hour [his time for sketching]. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)”
Jan Mankes (1889–1920) first seen 1910 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote, c. 1910, in Jan Mankes - kunstbeschouwingen van Albert Plasschaert & Just Havelaar; publisher J.A.A.M. van Es, Wassenaar, 1927; as cited by Susan van den Berg, in 'Tableau Fine Arts Magazine', 29e Jaargang, numme…
“My surprise and thanks are great.. ..and what a package. What attracts me most of all, yes, really gives me great joy [is] that little book ['Wild birds at home', by photographer Charles Kirk, London. 1906] with birds, really something to look forward to. There are pictures in [of birds] which arouse more wonderful thoughts than all real art. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)”
Jan Mankes (1889–1920) first seen 1906 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (original Dutch: citaat van Jan Mankes, in het Nederlands:) Mijn verrassing en dank zijn groot.. .En wat een zending. Wat me wel haast 't meest van alles trekt, ja me echt doet genieten [is] dat kleine boekje ['Wild bir…
“Yet I would like to get acquainted with Japanese drawings or paintings.. ..especially as they appreciate birds so strongly and therefore already they are my friends. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)”
Jan Mankes (1889–1920) first seen 1911 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In a letter of Jan Mankes to A.A.M. Pauwels, 2 Feb. 1911 – RKD in The Hague: Archive: Pauwels
“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)”
Jan Mankes (1889–1920) first seen 1877 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In a letter to A.A.M. Pauwels, 2 Feb. 1911; as cited Jan Mankes – in woord en beeld, ed. Sjoerd van Faassen; Museum Bèlvédère, Heerenveen, 2015 ISBN 1877-0983, n. 22, p. 50
“For example, in recent times I was looking to avoid in my works the greasy parts, which in the dark places [of the painting] are obstructing the material expression so heavily to appear. Rubbing with pumice and (the use of a lot of) oil I dispensed and then, look... like in my older works all details seem to appear much better, like in all the feathers of the crow; The job now has become much bigger, but no problem. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)”
Jan Mankes (1889–1920) first seen 1877 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote of Jan Mankes, in his letter to A.A.M. Pauwels, 20 July 1912; as cited in Jan Mankes – in woord en beeld, ed. Sjoerd van Faassen; Museum Bèlvédère, Heerenveen, 2015 ISBN 1877-0983, n. 22, p. 28
“It [an owl] is like coming from a fairy-tale, something royal fragile, something that you would never want to touch, Yes to me it has become fully absolute because of that silver breast. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)”
Jan Mankes (1889–1920) first seen 1911 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote of Jan Mankes, c. 1911 in a letter to his maceneas A.A.M. Pauwels in The Hague; as cited on the website of museum more in Gorssel
“While holding a keen eye on all the yelling at the markets, let's prefer to stay away from many of those things that attract at times other painters - if necessary, unknown - to be able to continue the work quietly at times. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)”
Jan Mankes (1889–1920) first seen 1912 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote of Jan Mankes, c. 1912; as cited by Kasper Niehuys in Dutch art-magazine Levende Nederlandse Kunst, p. 202
“..[that] the landscape will become directly or indirectly an object of study for me.. (a month later:) ..So I have planned the project – already my intention for some years, as you know - I (almost) finished the painting of Woudsterweg.. .There you have it already.. .a landscape, Amice. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)”
Jan Mankes (1889–1920) first seen 1912 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 2 quotes of Jan Mankes in two letters in 1912, to his maceneas A.A.M. Pauwels in The Hague; as cited by J.R. de Groot in 'De bekoring van het gewone - Het werk van Jan Mankes', p. 103
“Besides, the entire impressionism usually presented merely the things from the outside. And sometimes they did it so perfectly that a seventeen[the] century painting looks clumsy, as far as seeing is concerned.”
Jan Mankes (1889–1920) first seen 1877 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In a letter to A.A.M. Pauwels in The Hague, 6 March 1913; as cited in Jan Mankes – in woord en beeld, ed. Sjoerd van Faassen; Museum Bèlvédère, Heerenveen, 2015 ISBN 1877-0983, n. 22, p. 28
“However, I gradually start to appreciate the Japanese print art [in wood prints] as a whole less than a small year ago. We can discuss it later, sometimes. For the time being I can say that the external elegance and skills are often not supported by a deep inner empathy with the depicted things. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)”
Jan Mankes (1889–1920) first seen 1877 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In a letter to Pauwels, 13 June 1914; as cited in Jan Mankes – in woord en beeld, ed. Sjoerd van Faassen; Museum Bèlvédère, Heerenveen, 2015 ISBN 1877-0983, n. 22, p. 29
“I have finished a fairly large painting, the goat; I sometimes spoke to you about my plan. I believe it has become a real painting, and very complete. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)”
Jan Mankes (1889–1920) first seen 1914 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote of Jan Mankes (1914) in a letter to A.A.M. Pauwels in The Hague; as cited by J.R. de Groot in 'De bekoring van het gewone - Het werk van Jan Mankes', p. 104
“The lazy, carbon-black mutt, huddled together and missing all kinds of grace has, just because of that my sympathy. Because outward appearance doesn't matter here it is so beautiful and true but also so difficult, that it seems to me almost impossible to reproduce the beast in such a way that not everybody will say: Yuck, what a nasty black beast.. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)”
Jan Mankes (1889–1920) first seen 1914 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote, c. 1914, in: Jan Mankes - kunstbeschouwingen van Albert Plasschaert & Just Havelaar; publisher J.A.A.M. van Es, Wassenaar, 1927; as cited by Susan van den Berg, in 'Tableau Fine Arts Magazine', 29e Jaargang, numm…
“I really love Thijs Maris and his works possess for me a peculiar charm.. .You will certainly love Thijs Maris yourself and then you know.. ..how lovely it is to walk along in his childlike ardour. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)”
Jan Mankes (1889–1920) first seen 1877 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In his letter to artist and art-critic Augustine Obreen, 16/19 June 1915; as cited in Jan Mankes – in woord en beeld, ed. Sjoerd van Faassen; Museum Bèlvédère, Heerenveen, 2015 ISBN 1877-0983, n. 22, p. 26
“The miracle has come. So suddenly and so directly that I still cann't comprehend it myself. I'm engaged. My girl is the pastor of and her name is Annie Zernike. You will get to know her and then you will realize what a great and delicious thing this means to me. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)”
Jan Mankes (1889–1920) first seen 1915 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote of Mankes, in a letter to his maceneas A.A.M. Pauwels in The Hague, 1915; as cited in the article 'Museum MORE verwerft twee topstukken van Jan Mankes'
“I wanted to paint crows in a big spot of lonely black with a digger head and paws. But stronger was nature which forced me to make a beast, sparkling of blue and purple, a subdued pleasure for the eyes. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)”
Jan Mankes (1889–1920) first seen 1877 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In a letter of Mankes to Annie van Beuningen-Eschauzier, 30 Nov. 1919; in particular collection; as cited Jan Mankes – in woord en beeld, ed. Sjoerd van Faassen; Museum Bèlvédère, Heerenveen, 2015 ISBN 1877-0983, n. 22,…
“You know the tender side of my work. That side was always dominating me. I feel the joy of that tenderness most strongly when I think of a finch-nest with cobweb and lichen on a May-morning. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)”
Jan Mankes (1889–1920) first seen 1919 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote, in a writing to his wife , Nov. 1919, in Jan Mankes - kunstbeschouwingen van Albert Plasschaert & Just Havelaar; publisher J.A.A.M. van Es, Wassenaar, 1927; as cited by Susan van den Berg, in 'Tableau Fine Arts M…
“..Painting never means just never picturing the material things, but it is a psychological function, an expression of how his mind [of the artist] responds to things. So that is quite a difference with: painting is showing the beauty of things. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)”
Jan Mankes (1889–1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“..the distressing aspect of [[w:Vincent van Gogh|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.”
Jan Mankes (1889–1920) first seen 1877 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In a letter to A.A.M. Pauwels, 25 May 1914; as cited in Jan Mankes – in woord en beeld, ed. Sjoerd van Faassen; Museum Bèlvédère, Heerenveen, 2015 ISBN 1877-0983, n. 22, pp. 29-30
“What dusty and sober can a day in August be. You would like to take yourself away on such a day because of all the misery that is trying to penetrate you. But you know: the serene evening is coming and the lapwing sounds over the low fields. You are walking in the dew and see the backs of the cows and the steaming trees. and the thought of all these things blesses that fierce August Day, and you don't start to grumble and scold, or try to change or improve it, but you are seeking a quiet, shadowy corner somewhere on a deserted place here and there and you wait and know that it will come. Nature doesn't hide anything, but gives everything; and those days in August, they also have to get a place in our spiritual community. But the nights with winter-storms, they will also come and the lovely mornings and evenings in May, which are nothing but profundity. Only that depth, which we will get by experiencing all extremes, can create true friendship. Shall fate allow us to walk through all these phases? (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)”
Jan Mankes (1889–1920) first seen 1920 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In a letter to Miss Annie van Beuningen-Eschauzier (Dutch art-collector) from Eerbeek, 10 Jan. 1920; as cited on the website Anne Zernike