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Sluijters, Jan (1881-1941) - Self Portrait
Dutch painter and draughtsman. His first artistic training was in ’s Hertogenbosch (1893–4), where his father was a wood-engraver. In 1894 his family moved to Amsterdam, the city where Jan Sluijters spent the rest of his life. After taking his art teacher’s certificate he went to the Rijksacademie. In 1904 he won the Prix de Rome. Visiting Paris in 1906, he became fascinated by modern art. Sluijters’s confrontation with the work of Neo-Impressionists, Fauvists and such painters as Toulouse-Lautrec and Kees van Dongen resulted in sensational and dynamically modern work and made him a pioneer of modernism in the Netherlands. He assimilated the French influences into a divisionist style, characterized by an expressive use of bright dots, lines and blocks of color. The application of this technique, particularly in landscape paintings such as October Sun, shows how strongly he admired the later work of Vincent van Gogh. It was this form of divisionism, of which the chief representatives were Sluijters, Piet Mondrian and Leo Gestel, that brought about the breakthrough for Amsterdam’s avant-garde painters in 1909 and that paved the way generally for the development of modern art in the Netherlands. The new French color was used in even more concentrated form in a number of figure paintings from 1911, made up of larger planes with clearly defined outlines, for example Woman Reading.
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