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Marinus Heijnes (8 March 1888 in
Marinus Heijnes (8 March 1888 in Amsterdam
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– 12 February 1963 in De Kaag) was a Dutch impressionist artist who painted in the tradition of the Dutch 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 ...
. Heijnes had visited and painted in Switzerland (Ticino
Ticino (), sometimes Tessin (), officially the Republic and Canton of Ticino or less formally the Canton of Ticino,, informally ''Canton Ticino'' ; lmo, Canton Tesin ; german: Kanton Tessin ; french: Canton du Tessin ; rm, Chantun dal Tessin . ...
), Italy, France (Brittany
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, Côte d'Azur
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) and Sweden. Much of his work is about the Dutch lakeside near his village Kaag
Kaag is a village in the Dutch province of South Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Kaag en Braassem, and lies about northeast of Leiden.
The village of Kaag lies on an island called Kagereiland in the Kager Lakes (Kagerplassen). To re ...
.
Education and work
Heijnes had his education at theQuellinusschool
The Quellinusschool or ''Kunstnijverheidsschool Quellinus'', was a school for sculptors in Amsterdam named after the Quellinus family of sculptors, founded in 1877.
It was founded as the ''Teekenschool voor Kunstambachten'' (Drawing school for art ...
in Amsterdam. Most of his colourful work was made in oil on canvas or aquarel. Heijnes worked 'en plein air
''En plein air'' (; French for 'outdoors'), or ''plein air'' painting, is the act of painting outdoors.
This method contrasts with studio painting or academic rules that might create a predetermined look. The theory of 'En plein air' painting ...
' which means painted outdoors. Heijnes was a member of Kunst Zij Ons Doel
Kunst zij ons doel, or KZOD, (English: ''Art be our aim'') is the name of an artists club in the Waag, Haarlem.
History
The Society was founded in 1821 as the continuation of the ' Haarlemse Teekenacademie', established in 1772 by Cornelis van N ...
in Haarlem
Haarlem (; predecessor of ''Harlem'' in English) is a city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of North Holland. Haarlem is situated at the northern edge of the Randstad, one of the most populated metropoli ...
.
Heijnes's work was included in the 1939 exhibition and sale ''Onze Kunst van Heden
Onze Kunst van Heden (Contemporary Artists/Our Art of Today) was an exhibition held in the winter of 1939 through 1940 at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Due to the threat of invasion in the years leading up to World War II, the Netherlands' go ...
'' (Our Art of Today) at the Rijksmuseum
The Rijksmuseum () is the national museum of the Netherlands dedicated to Dutch arts and history and is located in Amsterdam. The museum is located at the Museum Square in the borough of Amsterdam South, close to the Van Gogh Museum, the St ...
in Amsterdam.
Marinus Heijnes was father of the aquarellist Theodoor Heynes.
References
Bibliography
* , Lexicon Nederlandse Beeldende Kunstenaars 1750-1950, 1970 * , Lexicon van Nederlandsche Schilders en Beeldhouwers 1870–1940, 1944 * , Allgemeinem Lexikon der bildenden Künstler des XX. Jahrhunderts * , Beeldend Nederland : biografisch handboek, 1993External links
* 1888 births 1963 deaths Dutch landscape painters Painters from Amsterdam People from Kaag en Braassem 20th-century Dutch painters Dutch male painters 20th-century Dutch male artists {{Netherlands-painter-stub