Johannes Warnardus Bilders
Johannes Warnardus Bilders (18 August 1811 – 29 October 1890) was a Dutch landscape-painter; he was the father of Gerard Bilders (1838–1865) and a forerunner of the Hague School because of his connections with H.W. Mesdag, Jozef Israëls, Willem Roelofs, his later wife Marie Bilders-van Bosse and others painters of The Hague.
Also recorded as Johannes Wernardus Bilders · Johannes Warnadus Bilders · Jan Warnardus Bilders
Johannes Warnardus Bilders

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- Born
- 1811. · Utrecht.
- Died
- 1890. · Oosterbeek.
- Nationality
- Kingdom of the Netherlands.
- Occupation
- painter.
- Fields
- painting.
- Movements
- Hague School.
- Known for
- The Heath near Wolfheze, View in the Woods and Landscape with Farmstead.
- Languages
- Dutch.
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Johannes Warnardus Bilders (18 August 1811 – 29 October 1890) was a Dutch landscape-painter; he was the father of Gerard Bilders (1838–1865) and a forerunner of the Hague School because of his connections with H.W. Mesdag, Jozef Israëls, Willem Roelofs, his later wife Marie Bilders-van Bosse and others painters of The Hague.
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The recorded working language is Dutch. The field of work recorded is painting. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are landscape. Places of work recorded in the authority are Oosterbeek, Utrecht and Amsterdam. Works named in the authority record are The Heath near Wolfheze, View in the Woods and Landscape with Farmstead. Work by Johannes Warnardus Bilders is recorded in the collections of Museum Arnhem, Teylers Museum, Amsterdam Museum, Museum of Living Dutch Masters and Centraal Museum.
Johannes Bilders was born in Utrecht and took lessons from Jan Lodewijk Jonxis (1789–1867). In 1830, at the time of the start of the Belgian Revolution, struggling for independence from The Netherlands, he registered as a Dutch volunteer soldier to help suppress the uprising against the Dutch government and King. He stayed in the army for a number of years, after which he returned to Utrecht and returned to his art-teacher Jonxis for painting lessons again. After travels in Germany, he settled down in 1841 at Oosterbeek, also called the 'Dutch Barbizon', where he gathered around him many young painters who would later become central figures in the Hague School. Some of these painters were Anton Mauve, Paul Gabriël and his son Gerard Bilders, among others. In 1846 he returned to Utrecht, where he was employed until 1852. Then he spent one year in Amsterdam where he was acquainted with Jozef Israëls. He went back to Oosterbeek (1855–1858). After some time he went to Amsterdam for a long period (1858–1880), then back to Oosterbeek where he married his second wife, the woman-painter Marie Bilders-van Bosse. They spent there together 10 years; he died on 29 October 1890.

View on the Zandberg, near Elswout, Bloemendaal, The Netherlands
Johannes Warnardus Bilders · Rijksstudio of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Portret van J.W. Bilders, geboren 1811, kunstschilder te Utrecht, overleden 1890. Borstbeeld links, in profiel. Reproductie (lichtdruk) van een tekening van Pieter van Loon, ca. 1840. De tekening bevond zich toen bij mevrouw de douairière Calkoen, geboren Rethaan Macaré.
Pieter van Loon · Het Utrechts Archief
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