26 letters found

1. 011 To Theo van Gogh. London, Sunday, 20 July 1873.

   in note 17:

   In The Hague’s artistic circles, Weissenbruch had been nicknamed ‘the merry tune’ because of hi...

   in note 16:

   ...ints opens in fact with this litho by Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch, which was included in the Kunstkronij...

   in translation:

   ... I’ll send you a portrait of that mill by Weissenbruch. Perhaps you remember, ‘the merry tune’ ...

2. 013 To Theo van Gogh. London, Saturday, 13 September 1873.

   in note 2:

   ... de Trekvaart (Mill by the Trekvaart) by Weissenbruch Dzn. is followed in Theo’s album on pp. 2, 3...

   in translation:

   Did you get my letter and the lithograph by Weissenbruch that I put in the crate of paintings? Oh, ho...

3. 017 To Theo van Gogh. London, beginning of January 1874.

   in translation:

   ...k, Mlle Collart. Bodmer, Koekkoek, Schelfhout, Weissenbruch, and last but not least Maris and Mauve.

4. 123 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Friday, 27 July 1877.

   in note 3:

   ... Trekvaart (Mill by the Trekvaart) by Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch (see letter 11, n. 16) is followed by ...

5. 125 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Friday, 3 August 1877.

   in note 2:

   The studio was in Weissenbruch’s birthplace at Haagse Kazernestraat 112, where the painter – toge...

   in translation:

   ...nything while you were there? I was also in Weissenbruch’s studio once, a couple of days before my ...

6. 139 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Wednesday, 9 and Thursday, 10 January 1878.

   in note 10:

   ...ction Van Gogh is referring to. Although J.H. Weissenbruch painted a number of canals with tow-paths...

   in translation:

   ... T. Rousseau and the Trekweg at Rijswijk by Weissenbruch which I got from you. I’m sorry I didn’t...

7. 166 To Theo van Gogh. Etten, on or about Saturday, 30 April or Sunday, 1 May 1881.

   in note 8:

   ...ogue lists the following watercolours by J.H. Weissenbruch: Environs de Rotterdam (Environs of Rotte...

   in translation:

   ...ainting by Ruisdael or Van de Velde. ThenJ.H. Weissenbruch, superb, 5 large drawings, Roelofs ditto,...

8. 171 To Theo van Gogh. Etten, Friday, 26 August 1881

   in note 15:

   Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch was represented by Een warme dag (A warm day), Aan de Kaag (On the Kaag) and...

   in translation:

   ...character, man and woman from Scheveningen. Weissenbruch had, among other things, a drawing of water ...

9. 191 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, between Thursday, 1 and Saturday, 3 December 1881.

   in note 7:

   Weissenbruch’s nickname was ‘De vrolijke Weiss’ (The merry tune); see letter 11, n. 17.

   in translation:

   ...r Tersteeg, and of the painters I’ve met (the merry) Weissenbruch and Jules Bakhuyzen and De Bock.

10. 204 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Monday, 13 February 1882.

    in translation:

    Weissenbruch also came to see me.

11. 206 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Saturday, 25 February 1882.

    in translation:

    ...makes me much happier if a true artist like Weissenbruch says of an unsaleable (???) study or drawing...

12. 209 To Theo van Gogh, The Hague, between about Monday, 6 and on or about Thursday, 9 March 1882.

    in note 2:

    Weissenbruch had a studio at Haagse Kazernestraat 112, the house he was born in (see letter 125).

    in translation:

    ...previous letter that I’d had a visit from Weissenbruch. At the moment Weissenbruch is practically t...

    ...o was doubtful about me and had sent him to see me to have Weissenbruch’s opinion about my work.

    And Weissenbruch then said to Mauve, ‘he draws damned well, I’d be able to work from his studiesâ...

    ... too busy with his large painting, to go to Weissenbruch if I need to know something, and W. told me ...

    I also asked W. what he thought of my pen drawings. Those are your best, he said. And I told him that...

    ...a great privilege to visit such clever people as W. once in a while, especially when they take the tr...

13. 219 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Friday, 21 April 1882.

    in translation:

    ...I do. At first he did that, as I heard from Weissenbruch. And you see, Theo, that’s why it hurts me...

14. 222 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Monday, 1 May 1882.

    in note 11:

    Weissenbruch frequently used charcoal soaked in oil to make underdrawings. See Laanstra and Ooms 1992...

    in translation:

    ...s been soaked in oil, I’ve seen this from Weissenbruch. The oil is then the fixative, and the black...

    ...eryone about English drawings, for example. Weissenbruch alone said, when I told him that I see the t...

    He, namely Weiss., saw the large rather than the small Sorrow, and he said things about it that pleas...

15. 256 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, Sunday, 13 August 1882.

    in note 16:

    J.H. Weissenbruch was represented by three landscapes and a seascape: Boomrijk landschap (Wooded land...

    in translation:

    ...«ls ditto. Neuhuys, Maris, Du Chattel, Ter Meulen and a mass of others, not forgetting Weissenbruch.

    There’s a lovely portrait of Weissenbruch by Israëls; I can’t tell you how lifelike and quintess...

16. 257 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Monday, 14 August 1882.

    in note 9:

    For J.H. Weissenbruch’s drawings, see letter 256, n. 16.

    in translation:

    ... by Israëls — among them the portrait of Weissenbruch, with a pipe in his mouth and his palette in...

17. 279 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, Wednesday, 1 November 1882.

    in note 15:

    Jozef Israëls; Albert or Jozef Neuhuys; Jacob or Willem Maris; Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch.

    in translation:

    ...t although Israëls, Mauve, Maris, Neuhuys, Weissenbruch and many others of course remain themselves,...

18. 312 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 11 February 1883.

    in translation:

    ...€™s secret is such that it depends (as with Weissenbruch) on taking accurate measurements, seeing cor...

19. 370 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Friday, 3 August 1883.

    in note 5:

    ...for a while, following the example of Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch, who regularly spent time in the pictu...

    in translation:

    ... can. Still, your idea of doing the same as Weissenbruch would be mine too, but I literally can’t p...

20. 371 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Tuesday, 7 August 1883.

    in note 1:

    For Weissenbruch’s habit of working elsewhere from time to time, see letter 370, n. 5.

    in translation:

    ...f work, for while I don’t literally do as Weissenbruch does and spend a fortnight with the polder w...

21. 379 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, between about Thursday, 23 and about Wednesday, 29 August 1883.

    in note 11:

    ...g of 1882 Van Gogh had been given advice by Weissenbruch several times; see letters 204 ff. Cf. also ...

    in translation:

    ... won’t make you entirely cool towards it. Weissenbruch said something similar to me last year — y...

22. 592 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Tuesday, 3 April 1888.

    in translation:

    ...lland alone for ever. Thinking of Mauve, J.H. Weissenbruch, Tersteeg, our mother and Wil, in the pas...

23. 774 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Tuesday, 21 May 1889.

    in note 10:

    Weissenbruch exhibited two watercolours at the World Exhibition: Moulin and Canal (Effet de lune). Se...

    in translation:

    ...ell there. There are two watercolours by J. H. Weissenbruch which I like most particularly, also some...

24. 776 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Thursday, 23 May 1889.

    in note 2:

    Weissenbruch exhibited two watercolours at the World Exhibition The old mill and Canal, moonlight eff...

    in translation:

    ...ives me great pleasure. You tell me that J.H. Weissenbruch has two paintings in the exhibition — b...

25. 799 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Thursday, 5 September 1889.

    in note 8:

    Theo writes that Weissenbruch is not dead, because Van Gogh had assumed this in letter 776. Tersteeg ...

    in translation:

    ...k Tersteeg sent me eight watercolours by J.H. Weissenbruch, who isn’t dead, by the way, they’re ...

26. 801 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Tuesday, 10 September 1889.

    in translation:

    And that J.H. Weissenbruch knows and does the muddy towpaths, the stunted willows, the foreshortening...

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1. Chronology

   in 1882:

   ...ebruary-April Is in touch with the artists Weissenbruch, De Bock, Jules van de Sande Bakhuyzen and B...

   in 1873:

   May Visits the artist J.H. Weissenbruch in his studio in The Hague (125).