Louis Apol
Illustration — Photo of Louis Apol around 1904 Lodewijk Frederik Hendrik (Louis) Apol (6 September 1850 in The Hague - 22 November 1936 in The Hague) was a Dutch painter and one of the most prominent representatives of the Hague School. • Illustration — Winter, oil on canvas Apol's talent was discovered early in his life and his father ordered private lessons for him. His teachers were J.F. Hoppenbrouwers and P.F. He received a scholarship from the Dutch King Willem III in 1868. Apol specialized in winter landscapes; people are seldom depicted in his paintings.
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Louis Apol
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- Born
- 1850. · The Hague.
- Died
- 1936. · The Hague.
- Nationality
- Kingdom of the Netherlands.
- Teachers
- Johannes Franciscus Hoppenbrouwers and Pieter Stortenbeker.
- Known for
- A January Evening in the Woods of The Hague, An Afternoon view of Snowy Woods and Pigs in a Sty.
- Honours
- Royal Prize for Painting.
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Illustration — Photo of Louis Apol around 1904 Lodewijk Frederik Hendrik (Louis) Apol (6 September 1850 in The Hague - 22 November 1936 in The Hague) was a Dutch painter and one of the most prominent representatives of the Hague School. • Illustration — Winter, oil on canvas Apol's talent was discovered early in his life and his father ordered private lessons for him. His teachers were J.F. Hoppenbrouwers and P.F. He received a scholarship from the Dutch King Willem III in 1868. Apol specialized in winter landscapes; people are seldom depicted in his paintings.
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Born at The Hague in 1850, died in The Hague in 1936.
Training under Johannes Franciscus Hoppenbrouwers and Pieter Stortenbeker is recorded. Works named in the authority record are A January Evening in the Woods of The Hague, An Afternoon view of Snowy Woods and Pigs in a Sty. Work by Louis Apol is recorded in the collections of Centraal Museum, Fries Museum, Dordrechts Museum, Groninger Museum and Van Gogh Museum. Distinctions recorded are Royal Prize for Painting.
Identificatie Titel(s): Portret van Lodewijk Franciscus Hendrik Apol.
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- 1.W. F. J. Mörzer Bruyns. De tochten van de Willem Barents naar het noorden (1878-1884). hoffman.nl.
- 2.E. Meijer, « Panorama Nova Zembla », De Kroniek n° 2, 1896, p. 302.
- 3.W. F. J. Mörzer Bruyns, « Het panorama Nova Zembla van Louis Apol », Spiegel Historiael, n° 30, 1995, p. 302-306, 319.
- 4.Suzanne Veldink, Louis Apol op Nova Zembla, La Haye, 2019.
- 5.Louis Apol. rkd.nl.
- 6.A. C. Croiset van der Kop, « A painter of winter, Louis Apol », The Art Journal, 1893, p. 353-356.
- 7.cité dans la notice RKD.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 10
- A. Brunt, « Een praatje over Louis Apol », Op de Hoogte n° 6, 1909, p. 727-734.
- Leijerzapf. Ingeborg Theresia. Apol, Louis. Ingeborg Theresia Leijerzapf, Tineke de Ruiter et Joke Pronk. Geschiedenis van de Nederlandse fotografie in monografieën en thema-artikelen. Histoire de la photographie néerlandaise dans les monographies et articles thématiques. Alphen-sur-le-Rhin. Samsom. 1988. 90-6500-690-7. oui.
- « Louis Apol », Eigen Haard n° 62, 1936, p. 769, 775-778.
- Pieter A. Scheen, Lexicon Nederlandse beeldende kunstenaars, 1750-1950, 's-Gravenhage, Scheen, vol. 1, 1969 , p. 25-26.
- Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler : von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, vol. 2, 1908 , p. 28-29.
- J. Ubbens, « Louis Apol (1850-1936) en zijn foto's », Tableau n° 11, , p. 49-50.
- J. de Vries, « Louis Apol », Eigen Haard, 1897, p. 152-156.
- VV. AA., A checklist of painters c1200-1976 represented in the Witt Library, Courtauld Institute of Art, London, Londres, Mansell, 1978 .
- VV. AA., Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon : die bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker, Saur, vol. 4, 1992 , p. 515-.
- F. G. Waller et Willem R. Juynboll, Biographisch woordenboek van Noord Nederlandsche graveurs, Amsterdam, Israël, 1974 , p. 7.
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