24 letters found
- 446 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, between about Monday, 12 and about Thursday, 15 May 1884.
- in note 1:
...r 501). The rent was 75 guilders a year. Anton Kerssemakers drew a floor plan of this studio in 1914 ...
- 469 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Friday, 14 November 1884.
- in translation:
I now have 3 people in Eindhoven who want to learn to paint and whom I’m teaching to paint still li...
- in note 4:
...the goldsmith Antoon Hermans, the tanner Anton Kerssemakers and the telegraph operator Willem van de ...
- 470 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Monday, 17 November 1884.
- in translation:
...d working on — and which brought me a new acquaintance in Eindhoven, who passionately wants to lear...
...also be able to get something from this new acquaintance in the form of tubes of paint. Hermans is pr...
- in note 9:
... not actually go to museums in Antwerp with Kerssemakers until around the middle of August 1885 (see ...
- in note 4:
Kerssemakers was 38.
- in note 3:
Kerssemakers lived at number 283 Kloosterdijk (district B), opposite the then station and outbuilding...
- in note 2:
This new acquaintance was Anton Kerssemakers, who made a gouache of the same mill.
- 471 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Monday, 24 November 1884.
- in translation:
...ing in Eindhoven. The new acquaintance — the tanner — whom I told you about, is really doing his ...
- 478 To Anton Kerssemakers. Nuenen, between Thursday, 1 and about Thursday, 8 January 1885.
- in note 2:
This still life by Kerssemakers is not known. Kerssemakers later recalled his dealings with Van Gogh:...
- in note 1:
...rted painting still lifes in Eindhoven with Kerssemakers and others in November 1884: see letter 469....
- 491 To Anton Kerssemakers. Nuenen, Thursday, 9 April 1885.
- 493 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Monday, 13 April 1885.
- in translation:
... went for a splendid walk for hours with an acquaintance of mine, whose first watercolour of a figure...
- in note 4:
This was Anton Kerssemakers, with whom Van Gogh had made this appointment (see letter 491).
- 495 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Tuesday, 21 April 1885.
- in translation:
Last week I saw at an acquaintance’s a decidedly clever, realistic study of the head of an old woma...
- in note 10:
Anton Kerssemakers, with whom Van Gogh was in touch in this period.
- 497 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Thursday, 30 April 1885.
- in translation:
Yesterday I took it to an acquaintance of mine in Eindhoven, who is painting. In 3 days or so, I’ll...
- in note 7:
Anton Kerssemakers; referred to later in the letter as ‘my friend’.
- 498 To Anton Kerssemakers. Nuenen, early May 1885.
- 501 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Wednesday, 6 May 1885.
- in note 3:
Anton Kerssemakers recalled how sympathetically Theo had responded at the time: ‘Some days after he...
- 502 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Friday, 22 May 1885.
- in translation:
... see the Antwerp exhibition sometime with that friend of mine in Eindhoven, if I can manage it. And t...
- in note 6:
... May to 2 November 1885. This friend was Anton Kerssemakers. In his published memoirs he recalls a vi...
- 507 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 9 June 1885.
- in note 10:
... the said Driek Dekkers and Piet van Hoorn. Kerssemakers and Vincent’s sister Elisabeth remembered ...
- 511 To Anton Kerssemakers. Nuenen, Friday, 3 July 1885.
- 518 To Anton Kerssemakers. Nuenen, on or about Thursday, 16 July 1885.
- in translation:
Dear Mr Kerssemakers,
- in note 3:
...enen sketchbook; he may have shown these to Kerssemakers. See Van der Wolk 1987, pp. 50, 53, 60, 75-7...
- 527 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Monday, 17 August 1885.
- in note 5:
...rtain that Van Gogh went to Antwerp with Anton Kerssemakers. According to Kerssemakers’s memoirs, h...
- 532 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, between about Friday, 25 and about Tuesday, 29 September 1885.
- in note 6:
...l-known paint manufacturer. According to Anton Kerssemakers’s recollection, Van Gogh’s purchase m...
- 533 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Sunday, 4 October 1885.
- in translation:
... I’m going to the museum in Amsterdam with a friend of mine in Eindhoven whose studies I once showe...
- in note 5:
Anton Kerssemakers.
- 534 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Saturday, 10 October 1885.
- in translation:
... you too. Now I have a favour to ask you. That friend of mine in Eindhoven, who went with me to Amste...
- in note 31:
Anton Kerssemakers. He jotted down several recollections of this trip. Quoted in Verzamelde brieven 1...
- 539 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Saturday, 7 November 1885.
- in translation:
... Then one evening I took it with me to that acquaintance of mine in Eindhoven, who has quite an elega...
...w here’s a description of a study by that acquaintance of mine — some roofs, backs of houses, fac...
- in note 16:
This painting by Kerssemakers is not known.
- in note 12:
The friend is Anton Kerssemakers. He described the painting and recalled the events when Van Gogh gav...
- 542 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 17 November 1885.
- in translation:
...in the style of Gigoux’s Souvenirs, which my friend in Eindhoven had sent for, in which I found som...
...drawing masters. I’ve tried it out on those friends of mine in Eindhoven, and I’d dare repeat it...
- in note 14:
These friends were Antoon Hermans, Anton Kerssemakers and Willem van de Wakker: see letter 469.
- in note 9:
Anton Kerssemakers.
- 544 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, on or about Thursday, 26 November 1885.
- in note 9:
... before, during an earlier trip to Antwerp. Kerssemakers recalled: ‘Suddenly he’s gone from my si...
- 545 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, Saturday, 28 November 1885.
- in note 2:
... (Burty 1877, p. 274). Van Gogh probably borrowed the book from Kerssemakers: see letter 542, n. 10.
- 683 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 18 September 1888.
- in note 29:
...n 1912, in the magazine De Amsterdammer, Anton Kerssemakers recalled: ‘He was always comparing pain...
4 essay items found
- Publication history / A flood of supplementary publications
- in publications_4:
Van Gogh to Anton Kerssemakers (facsimile, letter 491), in De Groene Amsterdammer, 14 April 1912, p. ...
- Publication history / The first collected edition of 1952-1954 and thereafter
- in publications_5:
...– the text of a postcard from Van Gogh to Kerssemakers (letter 491).Another newly published letter ...
Van Gogh to Anton Kerssemakers (letters 478, 498, 511 and 518), in Museumjournaal 13-3 (1968), pp. 17...
- About this edition / The annotations
- in about_5:
...to Theo: 223, 233, 373, 389 and 429; one to Kerssemakers: 511; one from Henriette Lamblot-Gaudin: 791...
...55; there is one postcard in the USA – to Kerssemakers: 491 (Washington, National Gallery of Art).
- Van Gogh as a letter-writer / Strategies and rhetoric
- in letter_writer_4:
... after other members of the family. With Anton Kerssemakers he was a teacher with his pupil – frien...
3 other items found
- Documentation
- in documentation:
... to Johan Briedé. Eindhoven, 23 June
1914.
Anton Kerssemakers
- Overview of all the letters
- in overview:
to Anton Kerssemakers, an amateur artist to whom Van Gogh gave lessons in Nuenen
- Chronology
- in 1885:
6-8 October
Vincent and Kerssemakers go to Amsterdam for three days.
*They visit the newly ope...
- in 1884:
...ssons in still-life painting to Hermans, Anton Kerssemakers, a tanner, and Willem van de Wakker, tele...
Term(s):
Dated between:
29 September 1872 and 31 July 1890
Person:
Antonius (Anton) Cornelius Augustinus Kerssemakers (1846-1924) tanner in Eindhoven, pupil of Van Gogh
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