Discover etcher, illustrator, wall painter Leo Gestel

Name variations

This field records and makes accessible name variations, as found in sources. Alternate spellings, nicknames, maiden names - with or without the married name - are included in this category.

: Gestel, Leendert

Monogram: LG
G

L.G. of LG dooreen, ook G. (Fichescollectie Monogrammen MHK)

Qualifications: etcher, illustrator, wall painter, painter, watercolorist, draftsperson, lithographer, designer, pastelist

Nationality/school: Dutch

Born: Woerden (place) 1881-11-22

Deceased: Hilversum (place) 1941-11-26

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: son of W. Gestel

This person/entity in other databases

2 hits in RKDcollections
790 hits in RKDimages as artist
14 hits in RKDimages as provenance
48 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
1 hit in RKDlibrary as author
199 hits in RKDexcerpts as artist

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Biographical information

Period of activity: 1896 - 1941
ca. 1896-1941

Education: Rijksnormaalschool voor Teekenonderwijzers (Amsterdam)

1900-1903
Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten (Amsterdam)

1901-1903

Active in

Woerden (plaats) 1881 - 1909
outdoor studies in 1907, 1909
Amsterdam (stad) 1900 - 1921
autumn 1904 to 1921 studio in the Tweede Jansteenstraat 80; often spent the winter months in Amsterdam
Amsterdam (stad) 1901 - 1908
Resided at Ceintuurbaan 436 between 15 October 1901 until 8 April 1908. (Amsterdam City Archives, Family cards 1893-1939)
Amsterdam (stad) 1909 - 1922
Resided at Tweede Jan Steenstraat 80 between October 1909 until 8 May 1917, between 12 November 1917 until 29 November 1920 and between 18 February 1922 until 29 April 1922. (Amsterdam Stadsarchief, Gezinskaarten 1893-1939)
België 1904-01
travel through Antwerp, Ghent, Bruges and Brussels on the way to Paris
Parijs 1904-01
Laren (plaats, Noord-Holland) 1904
spring
Eindhoven (stad) 1904
late summer; works with his uncles Dimmen and Dirk at the printing office
Den Bosch (plaats) 1907
carnival party studies
Scheveningen 1907
summer
Nijmegen (stad) 1907 - 1909
1907 assignment for decoration work on the villa of Ant. Jurgens; 1909
Parijs 1910 - 1911
summer 1910 and 1911 second and third trip to Paris
Bergen (plaats, Noord-Holland) 1911 - 1929
resides in Bergen during the summer and autumn in particular; settles definitively in Bergen in 1921
Mallorca (eiland) 1914
January to May 1914
Spanje 1914
May to August; travel along Valencia, Toledo and Madrid
Koedijk 1919
Beemster (polder, hist. gemeente) 1921
Spring
Duitsland 1923
tour through, among others, Dresden, the ore mountains, Zinnwald, Altenberg and the Bavarian Forest
Wenen (stad) 1923
traveled at the end of 1923 via Vienna to Italy
Frankrijk
Italië 1923 - 1924
late 1923, early 1924; traveled among others to Rome, Naples, Sorrento
Sicilië (eiland, regio) 1924
Jan-Jun 1924; worked in Taormina, among others
Positano 1924
June - December
België 1925 - 1927
Drongen
Sloterdijk (Amsterdam) 1927
Parijs 1928
trip to Paris at the end of 1928
Blaricum (plaats) 1929 - 1941
and surroundings for several years; settles after the fire in his Bergen studio in Blaricum
Zandvoort (plaats) 1929 - 1930
works in the summers of 1929 and 1930 in Zandvoort
Huizen (plaats) 1930
Spakenburg 1932
Laren (plaats, Noord-Holland) 1933-02 - 1933-03
admitted to St. John's Hospital from early February to early March
Amsterdam (stad) 1933 - 1936
December 1933 to mid-March 1934 and December 1935 to the end of April 1936 admitted to the Prinsengracht Hospital
Het Gooi (streek) 1935
Nieuwkoop (plaats)

born in

active in

died in

Connections with other artists

Pupil of This field mentions the names of teachers or masters. What is at issue are the teachers who made a significant contribution to the development of a students, as opposed to every instructor they ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Allebé, August
Gestel, Willem
Huibers, Jan Derk
Visser, Jan (1856-1938)
Waay, Nicolaas van der
Weingärtner, Josephus Benjamin
avondcursussen o.l.v. A. Allebé en N. van der Waay (Scheen 1981)
Teacher of This field mentions the names of pupils. What is at issue are the pupils who were significantly influenced by a teacher as opposed to every student someone ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Boendermaker, Kees
Lubbers, Adriaan
Piggelen, Harry J. van
Spaling, Johan

raadgevingen aan Lubbers (Scheen 1981)
Influence on This field specifies the artists influenced by the artist in question, without there being question of an educational setting or servile following.: Piggelen, Harry J. van

Subjects This field specifies the various subject categories or genres that constitute the oeuvre of the artist in question. The contents of this field are generally based more on the documentation available at the RKD than on the literature.: still life, flower piece, animal painting (genre), figure, nude figure, portrait, child portrait, self-portrait, landscape (genre), winter landscape, river landscape, beach scene, cityscape

Medium/technique: oil paint, watercolor, gouache (material/technique), chalk, charcoal

Art movement Here we mention the art movement to which an artist belonged. Many art movements have not yet been entered, because the content of this field is still under development.: Bergen School

Prijzen

Willink van Collenprijs
1912; for his pastel drawings

Member of

Arti et Amicitiae (Arti, Amsterdam)
1905
Vereeniging Sint Lucas (Amsterdam)
1905
Moderne Kunstkring
1911-1915
Hollandse Kunstenaarskring (Amsterdam)
co-founder in 1915

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 48 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
1 hit in RKDlibrary as author

Van der Pluym 1936
Slagter 1946
Vollmer 1953-1962 , vol. 2, 1955, 233
Scheen 1969-1970 , vol. 1, p. 372 (as: Gestel, Leendert (`Leo`))
Witt Checklist 1978
Bergen 1981
Scheen 1981 , p. 164-165, afb.nrs. 865 t/m 868 (as: Gestel, Leendert ('Leo');*)
Loosjes-Terpstra 1983
Saur 1992- , vol. 52, 2006, 389
Heuves/Estourgie-Beijer 1993
Jacobs 1993 , vol. 1, p. 384-385
Jacobs 2000 , vol. 2, p. 502
Van Adrichem 2001 , p. 27 en passim
Van Noort 2002

D.A. Klomp, In en om de Bergense School, Amsterdam, 1943, p. 27-56
H.L.C. Jaffé, cat.tent. Gezicht op de Bergensche School 1910-1935, Bergen (Noordhollands Kunstcentrum Bergen), 1967/1968, p. 18
W.H. Vroom, 'Leo Gestel, Piet van der Hem en de O.E.R.I.N.O.E.P.', Maandblad Amstelodamum 55 (1968), p. 199-202
B. Bakker e.a, De verzameling Van Eeghen, Amsterdamsche tekeningen 1600-1950, Zwolle /Amsterdam 1988, p. 456
A. Ligthart, cat.tent. Bergense School 1915-1925, Kortenhoef (Stichting Kunst aan de Dijk), 1995, p. 31
P. Spijk, cat.tent. De Bergense School en Piet Boendermaker - kunstverzamelaar in Amsterdam en Bergen, Bergen (Museum Kranenburg)/ Zwolle (Waanders), 1997
C. Denninger-Schreuder, Schilders van Laren, Bussum 2003, p. 62 en passim
L. van de Haterd, ‘Leo Gestel en De Gemeenschap’, Boekenpost 12 (2004), nr. 70 (maart/april), p. 28-29
M. Jonkman, E. Geudeker, Mythen van het atelier. Werkplaats en schilderpraktijk van de negentiende-eeuwse Nederlandse kunstenaar, Zwolle 2010, p. 118
G. Hartong en H. de Hoog, 'ederlandse boekenleggers van grafisch kunstenaars (9). Leo Gestel', Boekenpost 18 (2010), nr. 110 (november/december), p. 44-45
Ch. Winter, 'De foto's in het archief Leo Gestel', RKD Bulletin 2013, nr. 2, p. 31-35

Documentation RKD

This field specifies the location of the various RKD documentation materials. Most of the locations refer to our art-historical image documentation. In addition, you will find references to press documentation (clippings and short articles) here.

Beelddocumentatie uit het Archief Leo Gestel is ondergebracht in de Collectie Moderne en Hedendaagse Nederlandse en Belgische Kunst.

Archive location: archief Paul Citroen
archief Leo Braat
archief W. Jos de Gruyter
archief Johan Haanstra
archief Simon en familie Maris
archief P.A. en V. Regnault
archief Henri P.L. Wiessing
archief Firma E.J. van Wisselingh & Co.
collectie RKD Brieven, handschriften en kleine archieven
Fichescollectie Monogrammen MHK
Project: Inventory Decorative Interior Paintings in the Netherlands (1600-1940)
Marques de Collections (F. Lugt)
Belgian refugees in the Netherlands project 1914-1918
The Dutch in Paris - Retour de Paris

External links: Lugt (Marques de Collections) no. L.1078a

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Creation date: 1991-09-03; Last modified date: 2023-02-09

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