Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Amsterdam Photographs by George Hendrik Breitner

George Hendrik Breitner
Winter along the Amstel, Amsterdam
ca. 1890-1910
gelatin silver print
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

George Hendrik Breitner
Winter along the Singel, Amsterdam
ca. 1890-1910
gelatin silver print
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

George Hendrik Breitner
Canal buildings, Amsterdam
ca. 1894-98
gelatin silver print
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

George Hendrik Breitner
Canal reflections, Amsterdam
ca. 1890-1910
gelatin silver print
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

"Whereas, before Karrer went mad, I used to go walking with Oehler only on Wednesday, now I go walking – now that Karrer has gone mad – with Oehler on Monday as well. Because Karrer used to go walking with me on Monday, you go walking with me on Monday as well, now that Karrer no longer goes walking with me on Monday, says Oehler, after Karrer had gone mad and immediately gone into Steinhof. And without hesitation I said to Oehler, good, let's go walking on Monday as well. Whereas on Wednesday we always walk in one direction (in the eastern one), on Monday we go walking in the western direction, strikingly enough we walk far more quickly on Monday than on Wednesday, probably, I think, Oehler always walked more quickly with Karrer than he did with me, because on Wednesday he walks much more slowly and on Monday much more quickly. You see, says Oehler, it's a habit of mine to walk more quickly on Monday and more slowly on Wednesday because I always walked more quickly with Karrer (that is on Monday) than I did with you (on Wednesday)."

 from the novella Walking, originally published by Thomas Bernhard in 1971, translated by Kenneth J. Northcott and published in English by University of Chicago Press in 2003

George Hendrik Breitner
Cavalry troops
ca. 1890-1910
gelatin silver print
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

George Hendrik Breitner
Children in an alley
ca. 1890
gelatin silver print
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

George Hendrik Breitner
Children playing on sand pile
ca. 1890-1910
gelatin silver print
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

George Hendrik Breitner
Cyclist on the Prinsengracht, Amsterdam
ca. 1890-1910
gelatin silver print
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

George Hendrik Breitner
Portrait of girl with flowers
ca. 1886-1910
gelatin silver print
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

George Hendrik Breitner
Portrait of William Witsen
ca. 1890-1910
gelatin silver print
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

George Hendrik Breitner
Portrait of Margaretha Breitner
ca. 1890-1910
gelatin silver print
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

George Hendrik Breitner
Portrait of a woman
ca. 1890-1910
gelatin silver print
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

George Hendrik Breitner
Reclining nude - Marie Jordan Breitner
ca. 1888
photographic print
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

George Hendrik  Breitner
Marie Jordan Breitner playing with kitten
ca. 1890
photographic print
Rijksmuseum,  Amsterdam