Sigisbert Chrétien Bosch Reitz, known as Gijs (1860-1938) was a Dutch painter in the

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and

Symbolist Symbolism was a late 19th-century art movement of French and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through language and metaphorical images, mainly as a reaction against naturalism and realis ...

styles. He was also associated with the

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Biography

Bosch Reitz was born to a wealthy family and began his working career as a merchant. At the age of twenty-three, he decided to become an artist instead. After briefly attending the

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, in Amsterdam, he went to Munich,Brief biography
@ the De Valk Lexicon kunstenaars Laren-Blaricum. where he took various drawing and painting courses, then finished his training at the

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in Paris, under the direction of

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.Profile @ the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie Upon his return, he settled in

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, but left after a short time to participate in the

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, then went to England, where he lived in

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and St. Ives before returning to Amsterdam. He could not settle down, however, moving to the

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in 1892, first in

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, then Laren. Between each move, he travelled; to France, the United States and Japan, where he made a detailed study of Japanese art. This won him an international reputation and, from 1915 to 1927, he was a consultant on "Far Eastern Art" for the

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in New York. He also managed a collection of

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at the

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. He produced relatively few paintings because he worked slowly, paid great attention to detail and often strove hard to achieve a tapestry-like effect. Even his simplest, decorative-style works were the result of lengthy, concentrated effort.

Richard Roland Holst Richard Nicolaüs Roland Holst (4 December 1868, Amsterdam - 31 December 1938, Bloemendaal) was a Dutch painter, draftsman, lithographer, book cover designer, etcher and writer. Many of his works were in a modified Symbolist style. Life and work ...

and

Ferdinand Hart Nibbrig Ferdinand Hart Nibbrig (5 April 1866 – 12 October 1915) was a Dutch painter and Theosophist. He was one of the first artists who introduced luminism to the Netherlands. Hart was his mother's maiden name. He adopted it in 1884 when all of her ...

were good friends, but he generally remained aloof from the other artists at Laren and their social or professional affairs. He died in an accident involving one of the steam-powered trolleys that ran between Laren and Amsterdam; known as the "" (The Killers of Gooi) due to the number of fatal accidents they caused.

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at
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