David Adolph Constant Artz (

The Hague The Hague ( ; nl, Den Haag or ) is a city and municipality of the Netherlands, situated on the west coast facing the North Sea. The Hague is the country's administrative centre and its seat of government, and while the official capital of ...

, 1837 – The Hague, 1890) was a 19th-century Dutch painter and collector who associated with some members of the

Hague School The Hague School is a group of artists who lived and worked in The Hague between 1860 and 1890. Their work was heavily influenced by the Realism (visual arts), realist painters of the French Barbizon school. The painters of the Hague school genera ...

Biography

From 1855 to 1864 Artz trained with J.H. Egenberger and

Louis Royer Louis Royer (1793–1868), also Lodewyk Royer, was a Flemish sculptor who worked in the Netherlands where he received many commissions from the royal family and for public statues. Life Apprenticeship He was born in Mechelen where he first studie ...

at the Amsterdam Academie.David Adolph Constant Artz
in the

RKD The Netherlands Institute for Art History or RKD (Dutch: RKD-Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis), previously Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD), is located in The Hague and is home to the largest art history center i ...

There he met

Jozef Israëls Jozef Israëls (27 January 1824 – 12 August 1911) was a Dutch painter. He was a leading member of the group of landscape painters referred to as the Hague School and, during his lifetime, "the most respected Dutch artist of the second half of ...

, whose fishing subjects were to be a lasting source of inspiration for Artz. He worked with Israëls in

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in 1859. Unlike Israëls, however, Artz depicted only the more cheerful sides of the fisherman's life. From 1855 to 1864 he was a member of the

Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten The Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten (State Academy of Fine Arts) was founded in 1870 in Amsterdam. It is a classical academy, a place where philosophers, academics and artists meet to test and exchange ideas and knowledge. The school supports ...

in Amsterdam. Technically, he distinguished himself from Israëls in his use of sharp outlines and bright colour. Between 1866 and 1874 Artz stayed in Paris where he set up his own studio at the suggestion of Courbet. In Paris he maintained close contacts with his colleagues

Jacob Maris Jacob Hendricus Maris (August 25, 1837 – August 7, 1899) was a Dutch painter, who with his brothers Willem and Matthijs belonged to what has come to be known as the Hague School of painters. He was considered to be the most important and influen ...

and Frederik Hendrik Kaemmerer as well as the art dealer

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. During this period Artz produced mainly fashionable genre scenes and a number of Japanese subjects. His control over line and colour became more powerful. In 1874 he returned to The Hague where he was a member of the

Hollandsche Teekenmaatschappij The Hollandsche Teekenmaatschappij (''Dutch drawing society'') was an international art society founded in 1876 in The Hague. The purpose of the society was to promote watercolor painting as an art in itself, which until then had been known only as ...

and in 1879 he was awarded the

Order of the Oak Crown The Order of the Oak Crown (french: Ordre de la Couronne de chêne, german: Eichenlaubkronenorden, lb, Eechelaafkrounenuerden) is an order of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. History The Order of the Oak Crown was established in 1841 by Grand ...

William III of the Netherlands William III (Dutch: ''Willem Alexander Paul Frederik Lodewijk''; English: ''William Alexander Paul Frederick Louis''; 19 February 1817 – 23 November 1890) was King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg from 1849 until his death in 18 ...

Selected paintings

File:Artz Meisje slapend in het bos.jpg, ''Girl Sleeping in the Woods'', 1885 Image:WLANL - artanonymous - Terugkeer van de kudde.jpg, ''Return of the flock'', 1865. File:Artz Moedergeluk.jpg, ''Mother's Joy'', 1869 Image:David Adolph Constant Artz - In het weeshuis te Katwijk-Binnen.jpg, : ''In the orphanage at Katwijk-Binnen'', 1870 - 1890.

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1837 births 1890 deaths 19th-century Dutch painters Dutch male painters Hague School Artists from The Hague 19th-century Dutch male artists {{Netherlands-painter-stub