Lot 339: JOHANNES GIJSBERTUS VOGEL DUTCH, 1829-1915

A POLDER LANDSCAPE

21,5 by 34,5 cm.

signed and dated 76 l.l.

oil on panel

NOTE

J. G. Vogel belongs to the somewhat forgotten painters from the period of Dutch landscape painting between Romanticism and the Hague School. He was a student of Andreas Schelfhout. In the years between 1853 and 1857, he worked regularly in the surroundings of Cleves where the renowned painter B. C. Koekkoek had established his Romantic painting school. He was later known for his moor landscapes in Gelderland, which Johan Gram described as: "While painting those hilly grounds with the blond sands against the purple brownish hues of the heather, he was extremely happy". Vogel also made an arts tour to Switzerland. He was the chairman of Pulchri Studio at the beginning of the 1870s. As such, he was a member of the Dutch Committee of the world exhibition at Vienna in 1873 and contributed greatly to the success of the Dutch artistic entries. It was at this international exhibition that it became clear for the first time that a major artistic change was taking place in The Netherlands, which would henceforth be called the Hague School.

Vogel was married to the painter Margaretha Roosenboom (1843-1898), known for her flower and fruit still lifes. She was Schelfhout's granddaughter. Besides being a painter, Vogel was also a lithographer.

He died in Velp in 1915.

Vogel was not one of the great masters of the Hague School. His landscapes are unpretentious and clearly display an element of the graphic tendency of the Romantic landscape in the style of Andreas Schelfhout, his teacher. Influenced by the painters of the Hague School, Vogel converted to a somewhat broader style of painting in his later years.