#jan verkade

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Jan Verkade - Self Portrait (ca. 1891-1894)

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Paul Sérusier (French, 1864–1927)

"Portrait of Jan Verkade at Beuron", 1903

Jan Verkade (b. Johannes Sixtus Gerhardus “Jan” Verkade, later Fr. Willibrord Verkade, OSB; Dutch, 1868–1946) was a post-impressionist painter, student of Gauguin, and member of the "Nabis". In 1892 he converted to Catholicism, later settling in the Benedictine Abbey of Beuron. He entered the abbey as a novice in 1894 and was ordained a priest in 1904.

Musée départemental Maurice Denis

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Last weekend we went to an exhibiton in Casa Milà (La Pedrera) in Barcelona that featured paintings by the Nabis, a french group of painters inpired by Gaugain's expressionism that wanted to paint about the everyday life and its mysticism and symbolism.

The painters featured in this post are, in order: Jan Verkade , Paysage décoratif; Édouard Vuillard, Paysages et interieurs and the ceramic painted dishes; Maurice Denis, Saintes femmes au tombeau. Matin de Pâques; Pierre Bonnard, Portrait de femme.

Also, I found their ideology very sweet and fitting for the current state of the world, so I also added this passage of a letter by Nabi painter Paul Sérusier to his fellow Maurice Denis.

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Jan Verkade - Paysage de Bretagne

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Jan Verkade St. Sebastian

Tempera on board, 6.5 x 23 cm, 1891-94

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Remembering  -    Jan Verkade , 1893.

Dutch, 1868-1946

oil on canvas laid on panel,35  x 26cm., 13 5/8  x  10 1/8 in.

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Jan Verkade

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Jan Verkade (NL 1868-1946) Breton landscape (1891)