Hendrik Maarten Krabbé

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Heinrich Maarten Krabbe
Hendrik Maarten Krabbé (date unknown)
Hendrik Maarten Krabbé (date unknown)
Born(1868-05-04)4 May 1868
London, England
Died22 December 1931(1931-12-22) (aged 63)
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Other namesHeinrich Martin Krabbé
OccupationArtist

Hendrik Maarten Krabbé, or Heinrich Martin Krabbé (4 May 1868, London – 22 December 1931, Amsterdam) was a Dutch genre artist and portrait painter.

Biography[]

His father worked as a claims examiner for a life insurance company.[1] From 1883 to 1888, he attended the Quellinusschool and the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, where he studied painting with August Allebé and lithography with  [de].[2] After graduating, he lived in Bussum for several years then taught at the School of applied arts in Haarlem from 1896 to 1906.

Among his best-known students were  [nl] and  [nl].[3] After 1906, he took up residence at the artists' colony in Laren. During this time, he married the singer Miep Rust (1874-1956). From 1916 to 1923 he was back in Bussum, but spent 1920 on a study trip in Chicago.

He initially painted genre scenes, military personnel and interiors with figures. For the last twenty years of his life, he focused on portraits.[3] He was a long-standing member of Arti et Amicitiae.[2] In the late 1920s, he retired to Amsterdam and died there in 1931.

His son, Maarten, became one of the best known Dutch painters of the 20th century. Maarten's youngest son, , is also a painter; his middle son, Jeroen, is an actor and director; and his eldest is the writer Tim Krabbé. Jeroen's son is also an artist.

Selected paintings[]

  • A Girl with her Cat

  • At the Market in Brabant

  • Two Sailors

  • The Letter Home

References[]

  1. ^ Family tree @ GenealogieOnline.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b De Valk Lexicon kunstenaars Laren-Blaricum Biographical notes @ the De Valk Lexicon kunstenaars Laren-Blaricum.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b Biographical notes @ the H.M.Krabbé website.

Writings[]

  • Handleiding voor het teekenen en schilderen, Van Holkema & Warendorff, 1903

External links[]

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