Cleveland Museum of Art
Construction Site in Amsterdam
George Hendrik Breitner
- Date
- c. 1902
- Medium
- oil on fabric
- Culture
- Netherlands
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
A leader of the Dutch Impressionists, Breitner based this painting on a series of photographs he took of a construction site in Amsterdam. Although seemingly executed rapidly on site, the painting was in fact carefully composed in the studio. Aided by his own photographs and sketches, Breitner portrayed a city in transition. Like his friend Vincent van Gogh, Breitner admired naturalist literature and was determined to become a “painter of the people.”
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