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Johannes Warnardus Bilders
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“In the back of the garden of the hostelry where I am staying there is a settee; when one is sitting there you get precisely a nice view on the abandoned castle of Vorden. Often I see the old reverend clergyman sitting there, certainly for having a real rural view on the meadow, or for being able to turn his eyes to the old grayed-up walls of the castle, and coming in that way to the thought how all human labor is brought back to Nothing by the breath of the ages. (translation from Dutch, Fons Heijnsbroek).”
Johannes Warnardus Bilders (1811–1890) first seen 1868 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: J.W. Bilders, in his letter [including a sketch by pen of the landscape with the , seen from the garden of the hotel where he stayed] to Georgina van Dijk van 't Velde, from Vorden, 1 Sept. 1868; from an excerpt of the …
“This afternoon I had put myself down on this sweet spot, very tired of painting [with a view of the old castle of Vorden] .. .. I was completely immersed in thinking of You.. .I would rather like to.. ..thank you, dear and beloved Lady, for the right judgments and remarks which You gave me in this [your?] sweet letter. I solemnly promise you that I will use them for my benefit, and will spent all my powers as an artist, to make your attentions more worthy to me. (translation from Dutch, Fons Heijnsbroek).”
Johannes Warnardus Bilders (1811–1890) first seen 1868 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: J.W. Bilders, in his letter [including a sketch by pen of the landscape with the castle, seen from the garden of the hotel where he stayed] to Georgina van Dijk van 't Velde, from Vorden, 1 Sept. 1868; from an excerpt o…
“Nothing has happened since two or three days.. ..nothing special, only the Ladies van Loon have visited me this morning, I have shown them a few of my studies, and talked a lot about and {[w|nl:Vorden|Vorden}}. Now I could tell you further, how little I still feel at home, how a certain nostalgia or quiet sorrow plunges me down, and how an indefinite hurry for an even more uncertain future dominates my whole [being?]; but why should I bother You by telling You my inner life.. (translation from Dutch, Fons Heijnsbroek).”
Johannes Warnardus Bilders (1811–1890) first seen 1868 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: J.W. Bilders, in his letter [including a pencil-sketch of trees along a water] to Georgina van Dijk van 't Velde, from Castle Voorst in Warnsveld, 22 Oct. 1868; from an excerpt of the letter in the RKD-Archive, The Hague
“The last two days I have not painted on [his painting of] the Castle [in Vorden!] It is lying now on the roof to dry. it looks terribly gloomy.. .Good-bye, dear Miss. I still have to read in the great German philosopher Schopenhauer, a man who thought that all the misery he saw in life was created by an evil spirit who created this earth. - Good night, dear Miss, it is 2 o'clock in the night, already and the letter must still be mailed by post. (translation from Dutch, Fons Heijnsbroek).”
Johannes Warnardus Bilders (1811–1890) first seen 1868 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: J.W. Bilders, in his letter [including a sketch of trees along a water] to Georgina van Dijk van 't Velde, from Castle Voorst in Warnsveld, 22 Oct. 1868; from an excerpt of the letter in the RKD-Archive, The Hague
“I agreed with my father's servant, to travel secretly to Greece [c. 1825-26], to help them in their War for freedom against the Turks]; everything was ready for the journey, but then my father discovered our intentions. On that occasion I got my first and only beating.”
Johannes Warnardus Bilders (1811–1890) first seen 1825 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: version in original Dutch (citaat van Johannes Warnardus Bilders, in Nederlands): Met mijn vaders knecht sprak ik af [c. 1825], om stil naar Griekenland [om de tegen de Turken te helpen] te gaan; alles was voor den toch…
“Then - being in two minds - in my father's courtyard, I counted the buttons of my coat: soldier or painter, soldier, painter, soldier, painter.. ..the last button told me: painter. So it was decided by chance that I would become a painter [c. 1831].”
Johannes Warnardus Bilders (1811–1890) first seen 1831 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: version in original Dutch (citaat van Johannes Warnardus Bilders, in Nederlands): Toen telde ik, op de binnenplaats mijns vaders in tweestrijd, de knoopen van mijn jas: soldaat of schilder, soldaat, schilder, soldaat, s…
“On a certain day I packed my things and went to Oosterbeek [c. 1834-36]. I saw a man lying out of the window somewhere. Farmer! are there rooms for rent nearby? - Yes sir, even here. - I went in, saw a beautiful, suitable painting room; that satisfied me, I ask for nothing more. One hundred fifty guilders was the rent [per year]. I offered a hundred sixty when he also worked the garden and planted a lot of red cabbage, because I like to see that.”
Johannes Warnardus Bilders (1811–1890) first seen 1834 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: version in original Dutch (citaat van Johannes Warnardus Bilders, in Nederlands): Ik pakte mijn rommeltje en ging op een goeden dag naar [c. 1834-36]. Daar zag ik ergens een man uit het venster liggen. Boer! zijn hier i…
“People call this beautiful? - no, they are crazy, or I am mad! – How I learned now at Oosterbeek [c. 1834-36 that I should look at Nature completely different! In the beginning I could not make anything good; I soon realized that I had to start all over again.”
Johannes Warnardus Bilders (1811–1890) said by 1890 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“..buried soberly, as simple as a child of the people, as I am.”
Johannes Warnardus Bilders (1811–1890) said by 1890 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Just start, your palette will help you. (if you worried about a painting or dread to start painting”
Johannes Warnardus Bilders (1811–1890) said by 1890 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted by Maria Bilders-van Bosse, in her letter to A.C. Loffelt, 23 June 1895; from an excerpt of this letter in RKD-Archive, The Hague
“Yes, of course you want every shot to be a duck-bird [a dead bird?]”
Johannes Warnardus Bilders (1811–1890) said by 1890 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted by Maria Bilders-van Bosse, in her letter to A.C. Loffelt, 23 June 1895; from an excerpt of this letter in RKD-Archive, The Hague
“I worked hard the whole day, so that I am very tired now. Yesterday I made the sketch of the castle [in Vorden] on the canvas and today I painted the sky, the whole day long. I made the composition even more simple by leaving out the creel; the air is painted in the spirit of the [ Swartzwald [?], but much more stronger and sadder. I hope to show the people how beautiful, how profoundly poetical the castle [is].. ..please save this thumbnail-sketch [drawn in the letter, on the same paper] and also my previous letter. Who knows the descendants - when reading them, and looking at the sketch - will say: Look, it was in this way how Bilder's very lovely painting was discussed at the House 't Velde, and how it came into life in Vorden. Good-by, my dear Lady.. (translation from Dutch, Fons Heijnsbroek).”
Johannes Warnardus Bilders (1811–1890) first seen 1868 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: J.W. Bilders, in his letter [including a sketch by pen of the landscape with the castle, seen from the garden of the hotel where he stayed] to Georgina van Dijk van 't Velde, from Vorden, 1 Sept. 1868; from an excerpt o…