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Ян Слюйтерс (Jan Sluijters, 1881-1957). Между прочим, земляк Босха. Portrait of a Lady in Red (c. 1912)
(c) Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

"Jan Sluijters painted many commissioned portraits, but he also portrayed people in his immediate environment. The woman in this portrait was his cleaner. Wearing an eye catching red dress and an opulent feathered hat, she resembles a sophisticated lady. Sluijters was inspired by the Fauves, the French painters who employed obvious brushstrokes and strong colours. This influence is evident in this painting."

Макс Бекманн (Max Beckmann, 1884-1950). Portrait of the Family Lütjens, 1944
(c) Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

"This family portrait was made in Amsterdam towards the end of the Second World War. It was painted by the German artist Max Beckmann in the studio at his home in Rokin. Beckmann had fled to the Netherlands in 1937, after the Nazis condemned his work as degenerate (entartete Kunst) and banned him from exhibiting it in Germany. Beckmann led a solitary and difficult life in Amsterdam, but it was also a fruitful period in his career. In the ten years he spent there, he produced one third of his entire oeuvre. His anchor and refuge during that time was Helmuth Lütjens, director of the Dutch branch of the German art firm Paul Cassirer. Beckmann portrayed Lütjens with his wife Nelly and their eighteen-month-old daughter Annemarie. The family is shown in the kitchen of the art gallery on Keizersgracht, which was also the space in which they lived. The painting, however, was executed in Beckmann’s studio. Beckmann worked from the quick pencil sketches he had made, not only of the adults but, in particular, of Annemarie. Lütjens saw the work only once it was finished. He was deeply moved and bought it on the spot."

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