Discover watercolorist, etcher, graphic artist Willem Vaarzon Morel

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: Vaarzon Morel, Willem Ferdinand Abraham Isaac
Morel, Willem Ferdinand Abraham Isaac Vaarzon

Qualifications: watercolorist, etcher, graphic artist, illustrator, lithographer, designer, pastelist, painter, draftsperson

Nationality/school: Dutch

Born: Zutphen (place) 1868-08-09

Deceased: Koudekerke (Veere) 1955-01-25

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: vader van Willem en Petronella Vaarzon Morel

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).

Leeuwen, Klaas van

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36 hits in RKDimages as artist
4 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
5 hits in RKDexcerpts as artist

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Biographical information

Period of activity: 1883 - 1955
ca. 1883-1955

Education: School voor Kunstnijverheid (Haarlem)

1885-1887 (Scheen 1981)
Rijksschool voor Kunstnijverheid (Amsterdam)

1887-1888 (Scheen 1981)
Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten (Amsterdam)

1888-1892 (Scheen 1981)

Active in

Amsterdam (stad)
Frankrijk
studeerde een half jaar aldaar (Scheen 1981)
Haarlem (stad) 1896 - 1901
Arnhem (plaats) 1899 - 1903
1899-1901 (Jacobs 2000); 1901-1903 (Scheen 1981)
Oosterbeek (Gelderland) 1903 - 1909
1903-1909 (Scheen 1981); 1905-1909 (Jacobs 2000)
Italië 1909
reis door Italië en Zwitserland
Zwitserland 1909
reis door Italië en Zwitserland
Veere (plaats, Zeeland) 1909 - 1954
1909-1954 (Jacobs 2000); 1910-1954 (Scheen 1954)
Koudekerke (Veere) 1954 - 1955
Jacobs 2000
Duitsland
reis
Oostenrijk
reis
Groot-Brittannië
reis

born in

active in

died in

Connections with other artists

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.: Blaaderen, Gerrit Willem van
But, Jos
Metelerkamp, Herman
Vaarzon Morel, Wim (sr.)
Influence on This field specifies the artists influenced by the artist in question, without there being question of an educational setting or servile following.: Leeuwen, Nans 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.: animal painting (genre), figure, genre, landscape (genre), portrait, cityscape, still life

Product: poster, book decoration

Prijzen

Willink van Collenprijs
was 2 jaar pensionair van koningin Wilhelmina, verkreeg de 2de prijs (in 1891) uit het Willink van Collenfonds (Scheen 1981)

Member of

Arti et Amicitiae (Arti, Amsterdam)

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 4 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

Scheen 1969-1970 (as: Morel)
Braches 1973 , p. 12
Wouters 1977 , p. 79, 168, 175-176
Scheen 1981 , p. 359 (as: Morel, Willem Ferdinand Abraham Isaac ('Willem') Vaarzon;*)
Leeman/Pennock 1996 , p. 417
Jacobs 2000 , vol. 6, p. 63 (as: Vaarzon Morel, Wilhelm Ferdinand Abraham Isaac (Willem))
De Bodt/Kapelle 2003 , p. 256
Van Vloten 2004 , p. 55, 57, 62, 82
Bax 2004 , p. 200, 414, 415
Kapelle/De Bodt 2006 , p. 186

M.J. Brusse, Een dierenkolonie in een groote stad. Met teekeningen van W.F.A.I Vaarzon Morel, 's-Gravenhage z.j.
A. Beenhakker, 'De familie Vaarzon Morel. Drie generaties schilders in Veere', Kunst & Antiek Revue19 (2003), p10 [nav tent. in: Marie Tak van Poortvlietmuseum, Domburg, juni/nov 2003 en uitgave monografie: A. Beenhakker, Vaarzon Morel, een schilderfamilie, Vlissingen-Middelburg 2003]
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. 150
J. Louter, 'Pastel van Pietertje de Jong door W.F.A.I.Vaarzon Morel', Zeeuws tijdschrift 54(2003/2004), p. 25
J.J. Heij, Vernieuwing en bezinning. Nederlandse beeldende kunst en kunstnijverheid ca.1885-1935 uit de collectie van het Drents Museum, [Drents Museum, Assen], Zwolle 2004, p. 205-206
S. de Bodt, 'Couperus geïllustreerd', Spiegel der letteren 55 (2013), p. 347-373

Documentation RKD

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Project: Artis project

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Creation date: 1993-07-16; Last modified date: 2022-10-31

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