Alexander Hugo Bakker Korff
Alexander Hugo Bakker Korff (1824 in The Hague – 1882 in Leiden), was a 19th-century Dutch genre painter.
Biography[]
According to the RKD he was a pupil of the painters Cornelis Kruseman and Huib van Hove who became known for his "Bakker Korffjes" - genre pieces of ladies in caps in interiors, that he started painting in 1856 while he was living in Oegstgeest with his sisters as models.[1] He was trained in the 1840s at the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten in the Hague and the Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten in Antwerp, where he followed lessons by , among others.[1] In 1870 he was awarded the title ridder in de Leopoldsorde after his works were presented at an exhibition in Brussels in 1869, and he was a member of the Pulchri studio who later became board member of the Leids Schilder- en Tekengenootschap Ars Aemula Naturae, an artist collective that dates back to 1799.[1] His pupils were , , , , and .[1]
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References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d Alexander Hugo Bakker Korff in the RKD
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