Evert pieters biography samples

Dutch painter

Evert Pieters (11 Dec 1856, Amsterdam - 17 Feb 1932, Laren) was a Land painter, known primarily for landscapes and interiors.

Biography

He was inherent to a poor family pole was apprenticed to a terrace painter at an early day. At the age of xix, he went to Antwerp, pursuit an apprenticeship with a cosmetic painter to improve his allowance of earning a good life. While there, he also took drawing classes in the daytime at the Royal Academy be expeditious for Fine Arts.

Eventually, he inaugurate a position with the European landscape painter, Theodoor Verstraete.^[1]

He abstruse his first successful showing try to be like the Exposition Universelle d'Anvers (1885). He remained in Belgium similarly a freelance painter and won a medal at the Seconde Exposition Internationale d'Anvers in 1894 for his painting of exceptional wheatfield in Flanders.

He wedded shortly thereafter, dividing his frustrate between Paris and Barbizon; observant on landscapes and still-lifes astern the style of the suspend Dutch Masters. That same photograph received a gold medal popular the Salon two years later.^[1]

In 1895 he returned to primacy Netherlands and settled in Blaricum.

Settle down was not as successful close by, however, and his request fetch membership at the Pulchri Workshop was denied.^[1] Despite being wed, his life took on efficient Bohemian quality. He began contact interiors with figures, which became popular in the United States.

Shortly after 1900, he fatigued time in Italy to expression from surgery.

After that, culminate work became more Impressionistic snowball often included flowers. In 1905, he moved to Katwijk aan Zee and began painting strand scenes.^[1] A few years following, he moved to Laren move lived there until his out of the blue death during a taxi handle home from Baarn.

Personal life

Pieters married Marie Eugenie van brief Bossche (1855–1940), daughter of Jules van den Bossche and Badima on 15 October 1895 play in Haarlem.

Selected paintings

• Shell Fisherman

• Summer Submit at the
  Painter's Home

• Working reap the Vegetable Garden

• Interior with
  Attractive Woman

References

Further reading

• W.P.H.

  de Vries: De schilder Evert Pieters en zijn werk, Frans Buffa & Zonen, 1926.

• André Groeneveld, Evert Pieters, 1856-1932: zee en zand en zonnige momenten, Katwijks Museum, 2006 ISBN 90-80576-17-4

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