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George Hendrik Breitner

1857 - 1923

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George Hendrik Breitner (12 September 1857 – 5 June 1923) was a Dutch painter and photographer. An important figure in Amsterdam Impressionism, he is noted especially for his paintings of street scenes and harbours in a realistic style. He painted en plein air, and became interested in photography as a means of documenting street life and atmospheric effects – rainy weather in particular – as reference materials for his paintings. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. George Hendrik Breitner is the 1,009th most popular painter (down from 313th in 2019), the 432nd most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 132nd in 2019) and the 94th most popular Dutch Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, George Hendrik Breitner ranks 1,009 out of 2,023. Before him are Nikolai Yaroshenko, Cy Twombly, Emanuel Leutze, David Roberts, Adriaen Coorte, and Taddeo Zuccari. After him are Auguste Herbin, Andrea Schiavone, Mario Merz, Jan Dirksz Both, André Beauneveu, and Gutzon Borglum.

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Among people born in 1857, George Hendrik Breitner ranks 72. Before him are Simon Hollósy, Léon Charles Thévenin, Auguste Serrurier, Wilhelm Kienzl, Oskar von Hutier, and Gotō Shinpei. After him are Julius Popper, Émile Cohl, Abdurreshid Ibrahim, Charles Frédéric Petit, Uroš Predić, and Şehzade Yusuf Izzeddin. Among people deceased in 1923, George Hendrik Breitner ranks 52. Before him are Dora Pejačević, Zhang Xun, Vatroslav Jagić, Horace Parnell Tuttle, Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter, and Louis Couperus. After him are Eugène Mougin, John Morley, Semyon Alapin, Hermes da Fonseca, Fritz Mauthner, and Damat Ferid Pasha.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, George Hendrik Breitner ranks 432 out of 1,646. Before him are Cornelis Vreeswijk (1937), Melchior d'Hondecoeter (1636), Jetty Paerl (1921), Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy (1885), Jordi Cruyff (1974), and Adriaen Coorte (1665). After him are Pim Verbeek (1956), Dirk Jan de Geer (1870), Rinus Israël (1942), Jan Dirksz Both (1618), Dirck Hals (1591), and Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft (1581).

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Among PAINTERS In Netherlands

Among painters born in Netherlands, George Hendrik Breitner ranks 94. Before him are Karel Dujardin (1622), Cornelis Engebrechtsz. (1468), Henriëtte Ronner-Knip (1821), Jan van Huysum (1682), Melchior d'Hondecoeter (1636), and Adriaen Coorte (1665). After him are Jan Dirksz Both (1618), Dirck Hals (1591), Thomas de Keyser (1596), Adriaen van de Venne (1589), Anthon van Rappard (1858), and Caspar van Wittel (1653).

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