Pieter Florentius Nicolaas Jacobus Arntzenius (9 June 1864 – 16 February 1925) was a
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painter
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water-colour
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ist,
illustrator
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and
printmaker
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. He is considered a representative of the younger generation of the
Hague School
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.
Arntzenius was born in
Surabaya
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on the island of
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where his father served in the
Royal Dutch East Indies Army
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. In 1875, at the age of 11, he was sent to the Netherlands to
Amsterdam
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to live with his aunt and uncle in order to complete his education.
In 1882 he became a student of
Frederik Nachtweh, under Nachtweh's supervision he gained admission to the ''Rijksacademie van Beeldende Kunsten''. During his time at the ''Rijksacademie'', from 1883 to 1888, his teachers included
August Allebé
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His early paintings were in a romanticism, romantic style, but in his later work he was an exponent of realism (arts), realism and impress ...
and
Barend Wijnveld, and amongst his fellow students were
Isaac Israëls
Isaac Lazarus Israëls (3 February 1865 – 7 October 1934) was a Dutch painter associated with the Amsterdam Impressionism movement.
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The son of Jozef Israëls, one of the most respected painters of the Hague School, and Aleida ...
,
George Breitner
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,
Willem Witsen
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and
Jan Veth
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. After his studies in Amsterdam he spent another two years at the ''
Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten'' in
Antwerp
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Charles Verlat
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.
Back in Amsterdam, Arntzenius became a member of the artist's societies ''Arte et Amicitiae'' (1890) and ''St. Lucas'' (1891), and he had a studio at the
Sarphatistraat
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. In 1892 his mother became widowed and moved to
The Hague
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and Arntzenius also moved there to keep her company. Around the same time his former fellow students Isaac Israëls and George Breitner left The Hague for Amsterdam to be a part of the capital's more vibrant artistic climate. At The Hague the established painters of the first generation of the Hague School dominated artistic life.
Arntzenius became a member of the artist's society
Pulchri Studio
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in The Hague in 1892. From 1893 to 1895 he shared
Bernard Blommers
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. He also contributed illustrations to ''Elsevier Geïllustreerd Maandschrift'' from 1892 to 1894. In 1896 he was admitted to the ''Hollandsche Teeken Maatschappij'', a society that promoted the medium of watercolours among its members. He got married in 1900, to
Lide Doorman
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, a talented painter of floral still lives, who lived in the house opposite of Arntzenius' mother, together they had four daughters, who he frequently painted.
Arntzenius was an accomplished artist in several mediums, but especially his watercolours gained high praise.
["De Haagse School": Jos. de Gruyter, vol. II, p.92] During his first years in The Hague, he painted landscapes in the typical Hague School style. Arntzenius later switched to mainly painting cityscapes and street scenes, just like Israëls and Breitner made in Amsterdam. Arntzenius' cityscapes were painted mainly in misty or rainy weather, he made use of these weather conditions to have his subjects be reflected on the wet asphalt. He also painted a lot in Scheveningen, which had changed from the poor fishing village it was in the time of
Jozef Israëls
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and
Hendrik Willem Mesdag
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He was born in Groningen, the son of the banker Klaas Mesdag and his wife Johanna Wilhelmina van Giffen. Mesdag was encouraged by his father ...
, into a popular seaside resort.
Though Arntzenius isn't considered to be a relevant artist nowadays, he was appreciated in his own day. He won prizes at the exhibitions of
Munich
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,
Venice
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,
Pittsburgh
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and
Brussels
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and his works sold well during his lifetime. His friends in The Hague included
Willem Maris
Willem Maris (18 February 1844 – 10 October 1910) was a Dutch landscape painter of the Hague School.
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He was born in The Hague. Willem was the third in a family of five children. His two brothers Jacob and Matthijs Maris preceded him ...
,
Willem Bastiaan Tholen
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, Bernard Blommers and
Herman Johannes van der Weele. In 1910 he opened a studio and started taking in students. During this time he mostly painted portraits in commission of wealthy patrons. This he continued to do until he died of tuberculosis in 1925, at the age of 60.
Gallery
Floris Arntzenius - Spuistraat, Den Haag.jpg, Spuistraat The Hague (gouache)
Arntzenius Spuistraat.jpg, Spuistraat The Hague
(oil painting)
(Collection Haags Historisch Museum)
Floris Arntzenius - Huurkoetsen in de sneeuw.jpg, Rental coaches in the snow
Floris Arntzenius - Straatje in Hoorn, met zicht op de Kaaswaag.jpg, Street in Hoorn
Floris Arntzenius - Portret van Willem Maris.jpg, Portrait of Willem Maris (dwawing) (Collection Gemeentemuseum Den Haag)
Portrait of Willem Maris by Floris Arntzenius.jpg, Portrait of Willem Maris (oil painting) (Collection Gemeentemuseum Den Haag)
Floris Arntzenius - Ploegende boer in glooiend landschap.jpg, Plowing farmer in undulating landscape
Lucifermeisje (Matchstick girl).jpg, Matchstick girl (Collection Historical Museum of The Hague)
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1864 births
1925 deaths
19th-century Dutch painters
Dutch male painters
People from Surabaya
Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Antwerp) alumni
Hague School
20th-century Dutch painters
20th-century deaths from tuberculosis
Tuberculosis deaths in the Netherlands
19th-century Dutch male artists
20th-century Dutch male artists