George Hendrik Breitner, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

George Hendrik Breitner

Dutch painter and photographer

Date of Birth: 12-Sep-1857

Place of Birth: Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 05-Jun-1923

Profession: photographer, painter

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

George Hendrik Breitner (12 September 1857 – 5 June 1923) was a Dutch painter and photographer.
An important figure in Amsterdam Impressionism, he is noted especially for his paintings of street scenes and harbours in a realistic style.
He painted en plein air, and became interested in photography as a means of documenting street life and atmospheric effects – rainy weather in particular – as reference materials for his paintings.

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Alternative names	Georg Hendrik Breitner; G. H. Breitner; Georges H. Breitner; George Breitner; Breitner
Description	Dutch painter, photographer, draughtsman, etcher, aquarellist and panorama painter
Date of birth/death	12 September 1857	5 June 1923
Location of birth/death	Rotterdam	Amsterdam
Work period	1873–1923
Work location	Rotterdam (1873–1875), The Hague (1876–1880), Rotterdam (1879), Scheveningen (1880–1881), Boxtel (1881), Rotterdam (1882), Drenthe (1883), Paris (1884), Loosduinen (1885), Drenthe (1885), Amsterdam (1886–1903), Arnhem (1889), Berlin (1900), Aerdenhout (1903–1906), Amsterdam (1906–1923), Antwerp (1907), Brussels (1907), Ghent (1907), Mechelen (1907), Pittsburgh (April 1909-June 1909), New York City, Philadelphia, Munich (1922)
Authority control	: Q289441 VIAF: 71495339 ISNI: 0000 0000 8151 357X ULAN: 500006861 LCCN: n50043496 WGA: BREITNER, George Hendrik WorldCat