Discover watercolorist, curator, etcher Ernst Witkamp

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: Witkamp, Ernst (jr.)
Witkamp, Ernest Sigismund

Qualifications: watercolorist, curator, etcher, illustrator, painter, draftsperson, wall painter
conservator van het Museum Fodor (1894-1897) (Scheen 1981)

Nationality/school: Dutch

Born: Amsterdam (city) 1854-03-13

Deceased: Amsterdam (city) 1897-10-01

See also In this field, you will find references to names of groups or to the artists that made/make up groups. You may also come across references to other artists if there was/is question of collaboration without a joint name. This is the case, for instance, with artists who rendered parts of works by other artists (such as with P.P Rubens and J. Brueghel I).

van der Waay (1879)

This person/entity in other databases

22 hits in RKDimages as artist
2 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
10 hits in RKDexcerpts as artist

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Biographical information

Period of activity: 1869 - 1897
ca. 1869-1897

Education: Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten (Amsterdam)

1871-1878 (Jacobs 2000)

Active in

Amsterdam (stad) 1854 - 1897
ca. 1869-1897 (Scheen 1981); 1854-1897 (Jacobs 2000)
Parijs 1878
eerste keer reis naar Parijs na winnen van prijsvraag Arti et Amicitiae in 1877 (Kellen 1892)
België
studiereis (Scheen 1981)
Frankrijk
studiereis (Scheen 1981)
Duitsland
studiereis (Scheen 1981)

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
Olie, Jacob (Jbz)
Wijnveld, Barend
Olie (1868); tevens leerling van A. Koopman (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.: Adriani-Hovy, Elisabeth
Lissone, Frans
Wijthoff, Anna

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.: flower piece, figure, genre, history (genre), landscape (genre), portrait, still life, cityscape

Prijzen

Willink van Collenprijs
1880 (Jacobs 2000)

Member of

Kunstgezelschap M.A.B. (Amsterdam)
omstreeks 1890 (Jacobs 2000)
Arti et Amicitiae (Arti, Amsterdam)
1896-1897: tweede penningmeester; 1897: tweede secretaris (Jacobs 2000)

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 2 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

Marius 1903 , p. 251
Knoef 1948 , p. 113-114
Scheen 1969-1970 , vol. 2, p. 615
Scheen 1981 , p. 589 (as: Witkamp jr, Ernest Sigismund ('Ernst');*)
Halbertsma et al. 1997 , p. 140
Jacobs 2000 , vol. 6, p. 448-449 (as: Witkamp jr., Ernest Sigismund (Ernst))
Jonkman/Geudeker 2010 , p. 52, 53

D. van der Kellen, 'E.S. Witkamp Jr', in: Elseviers Geïllustreerd Maandschrift 2 (1892) , pp. 441-457.
W. Loos, 'Nicolaas van der Waay (1855-1936) en het Amsterdamse genootschap M.A.B.', De Negentiende Eeuw 13 (1989), p. 124-149
C. Stolwijk, Uit de schilderswereld. Nederlandse kunstschilders in de tweede helft van de negentiende eeuw, Leiden 1998, p. 169 en passim
J. Versteegh, 'Een generatieconflict in woord en beeld.Elsevier's Geïllustreerd Maandschrift 1891-1900', Kunstlicht 24 (2003), p. 31 en passim
J. Versteegh, 'Verandering tot die richting beteekent voor mij :zelfmoord'. De kentering in de eerste tien jaren van Elsevier's Geïllustreerd Maandschrift', De Boekenwereld 20 (2003-2004), p. 151

illustraties van E.W. in: Elsevier's Geïllustreerd Maandschrift 4 (1894), dl.8, p.65-68

Documentation RKD

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Project: Inventory Decorative Interior Paintings in the Netherlands (1600-1940)
The Dutch in Paris - Retour de Paris

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Creation date: 1994-11-16; Last modified date: 2017-10-10

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