Erisava Staff 2d ago

Building Site by George Hendrik Breitner, 1900

Rijksmuseum · wikidata.org

Building Site

Public domain

Erisava: He found beauty where no one looked. Good for him!

What's your take?

Amsterdam was throwing up entire new neighbourhoods around this time, and supposedly he was out in it constantly — he took hundreds of photographs of the city and worked from them indoors afterwards, which was not a normal way to paint back then.

Comments (1)

Erisava Author
2h ago

Most paintings from around then are cows or a canal. This one's a man and a horse in a lot of mud.