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A self-painted autoportrait photo of Meijer de Haan –

Top 10 Sensational Facts about Meijer de Haan

Meijer Isaac de Haan was born on 14 April 1852 in Amsterdam. He passed on on October 24, 1895. He was a Dutch painter. In French, the name was written, Meyer de Haan.

De Haan remained in Amsterdam until1888, where he produced chiefly portraiture and representations of working-class Jews.

In 2010, the Musee d’Orsay staged an exhibition of De Haan’s work. The exhibition was called A Master Revealed: Meijer de Haan. In the aricle are the top ten sensational facts about Meijer de Haan.

1. He was born into a successful family

De Haan’s maternal grandfather was a rich fabric merchant. He owned several residential buildings in the Netherlands. His Jewish family also were owners of bread and matzo bakers. They held numerous conservative views of religion, music, and art.

2. De Haan worked with Petrus Franciscus Greive during his amateur years

A portrait photo of Petrus Greive by de Haan –

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Petrus was a Dutch painter and lithographer. He taught painting at the school of Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, the school happens to be where he was once a student. Petrus was so devoted to his teaching that his work suffered.

Because he was an expert in his teaching tactics, he chose De Haan as one of his students. However, De Haan was not the only student that Petrus taught. There are other students like Jan Jacob Lodewijk ten Kate and Johan Conrad Greive, his nephew. It was his interest in art that brought De Haan to apprentice with Petrus.

3. De Haan’s first painting appeared in the newspaper

De Haan was accepted ito Rikksacademie van beeldende as a student to Petrus Greive in 1874. However, he performed poorly, as an amateur.

In 1880, his career started seeing light at the end of the tunnel. One of his works was exhibited at the Paris Salon that year. The same year also, his work went public. An illustration of his picture, Een moeilijke plaats in de Talmoe appeared in the newspaper Eigen Haar.

The pictures generated many published discussions. The discussion, however, was not much aesthetic as theological.

4. After his success De Haan took on several pupils

A self-portrait photo of Baruch Laguna by Baruch Laguna –

De Haan did enjoy some successes as a painter of Jewish genre works while his stay in the Netherlands. He had become legendary to the extent that he could pass skills to amateur learners.

In Amsterdam, De Haan painted portraits. He then started admitting his followers who were into the art of painting and started passing skills to them. Some of the pupils that De Haan taught are Joseph Jacob Isaacson, Louis Hartz, and Baruch Lopes Leao de Laguna.

5. David Teniers and Rembrandt inspired his work

A portrait photo by David Teniers the Younger teaching David Teniers III –

Take note that Petrus Greive is not included in the list of those people that inspire the work of De Haan. Petrie was his master in art but those who inspired him are David Teniers and Rembrandt.

David Teniers the Younger was a Flemish Baroque painter, printmaker, draughtsman, miniaturist painter, staffage painter, copyist, and art curator. He was an extremely versatile artist known for his prolific output.

6. Uriel Acosta is reflected in De Han’s history of painting

Uriel Acosta was painted in the years 1877 to 1888. The critic I.N. Stemming disparaged the painting as nothing more than a desiccated memory of Rembrandt and Munaczy.

De Haan had toiled for ten years on this magnum opus. Fortunately, it showed the rabbinical judgment against the 1st-century Jewish philosopher Uriel Acosta over his opinion about the immorarity of the soul.

7. What made De Haan leave for Paris in 1888?

1888, was a remarkable year in De Haan’s life as a painter. It was the year when he finished painting Uriel Acosta in the style of Rembrandt. Also, 1888 was the year when De Haan left for Paris.

The painting Uriel Acosta ignited displeasure in orthodox Jewish circles. This thus drove Meijer de Haan to leave for Paris in October of the same year. He left with a monthly allowance from his family and was accompanied by his pupil Jan Joseph Isaacson.

8. De Haan shared ideas with the legendary van Gogh

A self-portrait photo of Vincent van Gogh by himself –

For those who never came across portraits by Van Gogh, van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who posthumously became one of the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. Van Gogh is the painter of Sunflowers, Wheatfield with Crows, and many other famous portraits.

So, when De Haan arrived in Paris with his student Isaacson, there he stayed with the art dealer Theo van Gogh for some months. He also met Camille Pissarro. It was Then who introduce him to his brother Vincent van Gogh. De Haan then made good relations with Vincent van Gogh and they always exchanged letters.

9. Meijer de Haan traveled to Brittany in 1889

In Brittany at a place called Pont-Aven, de Haan met and became friendly with Paul Gauguin. The two traveled to Le Pouldu, on the coast of the province for the winter of 1889 through 1890.

De Haan then conducted a liaison with Marie Henry, the owner of the seaside hotel-cafe Buvette de la plage. De Haan and Gauguin were lodged in 1890-1891. The two painters covered the walls of the dining area with impressionist murals such as Breton Women’s Stressing Hemp in 1889.

The work, papered over in the 1920s, was later uncovered, restored, and sold. In the summer of 1891, Marie Henry gave birth to a daughter, Ida, but De Haan left Le could and returned to Amsterdam. He left all of his French paintings to Marie and her two daughters.

10. What prevented de Haan from following Gauguin to Tahiti

The next journey for the two painters; De Haan and Gauguin was Tahiti. However, it is suspected that the withdrawal of his family allowances and sudden illness seems to have prevented Meijer de Haan from following Gauguin to Tahiti.

It is believed that he probably returned to the Netherlands in 1891 where he continued t suffer from his sickness. The sickness that precipitated his early death however is not recorded in his history.