Herman Kruyder Quotes

Herman Kruyder was a Dutch painter.

He was born in Baarn. According to the RKD he married the artist Jo Bouman and worked with Henri Boot in Haarlem around 1905. He was a member of Kunstkring Haarlem and Kunst zij ons doel. Later in 1930 he moved back to the Gooi where he became a member of the Gooise Kunstkring.He died in Amsterdam. Wikipedia  

✵ 7. June 1881 – 29. April 1935
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Famous Herman Kruyder Quotes

“I paint my own conflicts through the animals.”

Door de dieren heen schilder ik mijn eigen conflicten.

Quote of Kruyders, as cited by Benoit Hameleers, on the website of Stichting Sjef Hutsch http://www.stichtingsjefhutsch.nl/nieuws.html
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“..[I] will now work on the painting 'The bitch in Heat', I have studies of the subject for a long time already. Actually it can better be called 'The fight therefore', because in the composition in the background three large dogs have a furious fight together.”

translation from original Dutch, Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018

(version in original Dutch / origineel citaat van Herman Kruyder:) ..[Ik] ga nu werken aan het schilderij 'De loopsche teef' heb daar al lang voorstudies van. Het kan eigenlijk beter 'Het gevecht daarom' heten, daar in de compositie in de achtergrond drie grote honden een grimmig gevecht leveren.

Kruyder in a letter to art-critic Albert Plasschaert, May 1934, in the RKD Archive, The Hague
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“I was done justice and I appreciated it.”

translation from original Dutch, Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018

(version in original Dutch / origineel citaat van Herman Kruyder uit zijn brief, in het Nederlands:) ** Aan mij is recht gedaan, ik vond het fijn.

short quote of Kruyder, in his letter to P.A. Regnault in Surabaya, April-May 1932; as recorded in Regnault's memoirs

Kruyder's response after a number of positive reactions om his paintings, from other Dutch painters and art-critics like nl:Albert Plasschaert
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“Only now I see what I am capable of and I don't understand that I have been able to make this canvas in my small front room.”

translation from original Dutch, Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018

(version in original Dutch / origineel citaat van Herman Kruyder:) Nu pas zie ik waartoe ik in staat ben en ik begrijp niet dat ik het doek in mijn kleine voorkamer [1928, in Blaricum] heb kunnen maken.

Kruyder, c. 1931; as quoted by Regnault in his Memories; as cited in Herman Kruyder 1881 – 1935: gedoemde scheppingen, ed. Mabel Hoogendonk; (ISBN 90-400-9905-7), Waanders, Zwolle 1997, p. 30

Kruyder's reaction after seeing his own painting 'Groot landschap uit Limburg' hanging in a large room of the house of his art-buyer P.A. Regnault
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“I think I am a tough mountaineer who, when he has the top in sight, is bounced off again [by mental break-downs], but some day I will succeed.. .I must do it, there is no other way for me. It is always such a pity that Jo [his wife] is cracked up so quickly, otherwise I didn't mind very much.”

translation from original Dutch, Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018

(version in original Dutch / origineel citaat van Herman Kruyder uit zijn brief, in het Nederlands:) Ik vind mij een stoere bergbeklimmer die steeds als hij de top in zicht heeft er weer afgestoten wordt, maar eens lukt het.. .Toch moet ik, ik kan niet anders. 't Is zoo jammer dat Jo [zijn vrouw] altijd zo gauw instort, anders vond ik de zaak niet zo heel erg.

Quote of Kruyder in a letter to P.A. Regnault, from Limburg April 1930; as cited in Herman Kruyder 1881 – 1935: gedoemde scheppingen, ed. Mabel Hoogendonk; (ISBN 90-400-9905-7), Waanders, Zwolle 1997, p. 31

both had very frequently their break-downs and went into the mental hospital for some time
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