![]() ![]() ![]() Isaac, however, did not want to follow in the footsteps of his famous father. In 1881 Isaac made his debut at the Exhibition for Living Masters in The Hague with a painting that was immediately purchased by Hendrik Willem Mesdag, a good colleague of his father. From 1878-1880 Isaac attended the Academy of The Hague, where Marius Bauer, Floris Verster and George Breitner were his fellow students. Isaac, who showed talent at an early age, was taken from school by his parents when he was thirteen to be apprenticed to his father. Within the Amsterdam Orthodox Jewish family where he grew up, much attention was paid to painting and literature every year the family visited the Paris salon and visited leading European artists including Max Liebermann, and befriended art dealers. Born in 1865 as the son of Jozef Israëls, Isaac Israels was raised on painting. He also painted light-hearted beach scenes in Scheveningen and along the Italian Riviera and was an accomplished portraitist. ![]() The artist recorded what he saw in a few striking charcoal lines or loose, quick brushstrokes with subtle color accents. Israels painted fragments of 'accidental life', which he found in the shopping streets, coffee houses and café chantants where the busy city life took place. With this they expressed their strong personal and social involvement in the gray life of these people. The Amsterdam artists put their impressions on the canvas with an eventful, sometimes fierce brushwork and a dramatic, dark color palette of browns, reds and black, with white accents. They drew inspiration from popular cafes and dance houses and traveled to impoverished neighborhoods, harbors and construction sites, the places where the life of the common man took place. In contrast to their fellow painters from The Hague, who mainly depicted wealthy city life, they found their subjects on the street. For the Amsterdam Impressionists, the painting was partly the expression of an artist's feeling and brushwork and palette had to be tailored to the subject. These artists moved in the circle of the Tachtigers, a group of writers and poets who used the motto Art is passion. Isaac Israels is, together with George Hendrik Breitner, the most important representative of the Amsterdam Impressionists. ![]()
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