George Hendrik Breitner, 1902 - Construction Site in Amsterdam - fine art print

Summary of the painting with the title Construction Site in Amsterdam

Construction Site in Amsterdam is a piece of art by George Hendrik Breitner. The piece of art was painted with the size: Framed: 80 x 100 x 8,6 cm (31 1/2 x 39 3/8 x 3 3/8 in); Unframed: 60,5 x 80,7 cm (23 13/16 x 31 3/4 in). Oil on fabric was used by the Dutch artist as the technique for the work of art. The original artwork is inscribed with the text - "signed bottom left corner: G. H. Breitner". Moveover, the piece of art is part of the art collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art, which is one of the leading museums worldwide that builds, preserves, studies, and shares its outstanding collections of art from all periods and parts of the world, generating new scholarship and understanding, while serving as a social and intellectual hub for its community. With courtesy of The Cleveland Museum of Art (licensed: public domain). In addition to that, the artwork has the creditline: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund. The alignment of the digital reproduction is landscape and has an aspect ratio of 4 : 3, which means that the length is 33% longer than the width. The photographer, painter George Hendrik Breitner was an artist, whose style can primarily be attributed to Impressionism. The European painter was born in 1857 and passed away at the age of 66 in the year 1923.

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Original artwork description from The Cleveland Museum of Art (© - The Cleveland Museum of Art - www.clevelandart.org)

A leader of the Dutch Impressionists, Breitner based this painting on a series of photographs he took of a construction site in Amsterdam. Although seemingly executed rapidly on site, the painting was in fact carefully composed in the studio. Aided by his own photographs and sketches, Breitner portrayed a city in transition. Like his friend Vincent van Gogh, Breitner admired naturalist literature and was determined to become a “painter of the people.”