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HENDRICUS PETRUS BREMMER (Dutch, 1871-1956) Les Meules

HENDRICUS PETRUS BREMMER (Dutch, 1871-1956)

Les Meules

1094|

oil on paper mounted on cardboard

25.3 × 34.3 cm (10⅛ × 13⅜ in.)

dated ‘Juli 94’ (lower left)

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HENDRICUS PETRUS BREMMER (Dutch, 1871-1956) Les Meules

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HENDRICUS PETRUS BREMMER (Dutch, 1871-1956)

Les Meules

1094|

oil on paper mounted on cardboard

25.3 × 34.3 cm (10⅛ × 13⅜ in.)

dated ‘Juli 94’ (lower left)

POA

PROVENANCE

Mrs Willy Takens-Bremmer, Zaandam (the artist’s daughter by descent from the artist)

Thence by descent

EXHIBITED

The Hague, Haags Gemeentemuseum, H. P. Bremmer, 1971, no. 12 (titled Landschap met hooihopen, dated c.1895)

NOTES

For just seven years between 1889-96, Hendricus Petrus Bremmer dedicated his career to painting, after which he focused less on practicing himself and more on lecturing about art-appreciation. As a painter, Bremmer drew on a range of sources for inspiration, including his interactions with the Brussels-based artistic circle called Les Vingt, consisting of Jan Toorop, Theo van Rijsselberghe, and Henri van de Velde amongst others. These painters helped to inform Bremmer’s Pointillist style in the period from which Les Meules was produced. Born out of Impressionism’s

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spontaneity, the Neo-Impressionists (or Pointillists) infused their art with a sense of meticulousness and regulation by painting with a colourful mélange of dots, lines, and brushstrokes. Dots or patches in complementary colours were juxtaposed and distributed evenly and methodically across the canvas. With vigour and invention, Bremmer adopted these principles to project in Les Meules a typical Impressionist scene of haystacks, firmly rooted to the ground while the large trees sway in wind behind them. Together with hazy sky of clouds above, Bremmer’s meticulous placement of varied hues of dots showcases the artist’s skill and mastery of the Pointillist technique to reflect the weather and atmospheric conditions.

Alongside his occupation as a teacher, Bremmer developed a keen interest and understanding for art collection advisement, and, in 1907, he became the purchasing advisor to Helene Kröller-Müller (1868-1939) – his former student. Under his supervision, Bremmer helped Kröller-Müller to assemble a fine art collection, including a considerable number of van Gogh paintings.