Hendrik Maarten Krabbé
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Born | London, England | 4 May 1868
Died | 22 December 1931 Amsterdam, Netherlands | (aged 63)
Other names | Heinrich Martin Krabbé |
Occupation | Artist |
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 .[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 [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.
and .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[]
- ^ Family tree @ GenealogieOnline.
- ^ Jump up to: a b De Valk Lexicon kunstenaars Laren-Blaricum Biographical notes @ the De Valk Lexicon kunstenaars Laren-Blaricum.
- ^ 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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- ArtNet: More paintings by Krabbé.
- Photographs of the Krabbé family by the Fotostudio Merkelbach from the Stadsarchief Amsterdam
- 1868 births
- 1931 deaths
- 19th-century Dutch painters
- 20th-century Dutch painters
- Dutch male painters
- Dutch genre painters
- Dutch portrait painters
- Military art
- British emigrants to the Netherlands