Jan Toorop

Jan Toorop
Willem Witsen, Public domain

(1858–1928) Dutch painter (1858-1928)

Jan Toorop (Netherlands, 1858–1928) is listed in the catalogue as a painter, a printmaker, a draughtsman, a ceramicist, and a designer. By year of birth, Jan Toorop belongs to the chapter ‘Post-Impressionism and Symbolism’ in this site’s history of art.

Jan Toorop was born in Purworejo and died in The Hague. Jan Toorop trained at Delft University of Technology and Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten. Jan Toorop studied under August Allebé. Wikidata associates Jan Toorop with Expressionism, Symbolism, and pointillism. Jan Toorop became a member of Arti et Amicitiae and Les XX. Jan Toorop was awarded Royal Prize for Painting. The students included Otto van Rees.

The best-known works include ‘Portrait of Annie Hall’, ‘De schelpenvisser’, ‘Broek in Waterland’, and ‘The Sphinx’. The catalogue has 50 works by Jan Toorop with free images. The dated works span the years 1850–1917. Works by Jan Toorop are held by several collections, among them Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rijksmuseum, and Prints in the National Gallery of Art. Wikidata links 4 works to movements covered in the chapter ‘Impressionism’.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Wally Moes, Hendrik Petrus Berlage, George Hendrik Breitner, Richard Bergh, and Carl Heinrich Stratz.