PATRON: HER MAJESTY'S AMBASSADOR AT THE HAGUE
AMSTERDAM BRANCH
Bulletin
2007-2008 season nr. 3. December 2007
Dear members of the Amsterdam Branch
Your Committee wishes all GNE members and their loved ones health, happiness and good luck in the coming year
2008.
In this Newsletter you will find information about our January and February events. The latter was not yet known
when the October Bulletin was mailed. It is such an interesting event that we have also invited members of other
branches.
Your Committee
Our January event:
Sunday, January 20, 2008: 3 pm Golden Tulip Apollo Hotel
Mr. Martyn Everett: 'Art and the Anarchists'
About the talk:
“Art and the Anarchists” explores the relationship between
members of the artistic avant-garde and the anarchist
movement since the friendship between artist Gustav Courbet and the anarchist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. Using
aproximately 80-100 illustrations the lecture examines the
images of anarchism including many posters, book and
magazine illustrations produced by artists ranging from the
Post-Impressionists to the Surrealists. Anarchist ideas
about the social role of art and their attraction for avantgarde artists in many countries are explained. Among the
artists whose work will be discussed are: Gustav Courbet,
Theophile Steinlen, Maximilien Luce, Camille Pissarro,
Juan Gris, Kees Van Dongen, Frans Seiwert, Gerd Arntz,
Constant, George Grosz , Pablo Picasso and Enrico Baj.
Pisarro
About the Lecturer:
Historian and freelance-journalist Martyn Everett, M.A., worked as a librarian in a Victorian Studies Centre
for many years. His publications include: The Buildings of Saffron Walden (2004), Saffron Walden: A Pictorial History (1998), War and Revolution : the Hungarian Anarchist Movement in World War I and the
Budapest Commune, 1919. (2006), Saffron Walden and the English Civil War (1994). Recent articles are
listed online at: http://martyn.everett.googlepages.com
Friday, February 29th: A VERY SPECIAL EVENT FOR MEMBERS OF GNE
The Amsterdam branch of GNE organises a special visit for all members of GNE to the great exhibition of one of the
most successful artists of the 2nd half of the 19th century. All members are cordially invited to join.
JOHN EVERETT MILLAIS, who lived from 1829 till 1896, was the most important British pre-Raphaelite artist:
one of the absolute highlights is his painting of Ophelia. The Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam is receiving this first
complete survey of his work since 1898 straight from the Tate Britain!
For more information please turn to the special page included in this mailing.
Mr. Edwin Becker, the architect and mastermind behind this exhibition will explain Millais' work during a lecture
which will be given exclusively for our members in the auditorium of the museum. Following the lecture, with question and answer time, we will have a variety of drinks and titbits in a room that is reserved for our members. There
will be plenty of time to visit the exhibition: the museum is open till 10 p.m.!
Details:
Date:
Friday, February 29th, 2008
Location: Van Gogh museum, Paulus Potterstraat 7, Amsterdam
Time:
3 p.m.
Participating members go to the main entrance, where Mr. Kraayeveld will be awaiting them.
Cost:
Members of GNE get a special admission price and a 25% discount on the beautiful
and informative catalogue, provided it is ordered on the form you will find
accompanying this invitation.
€ 15,00 if you have a valid museumjaarkaart
€ 23,50 if you have not, but bring your GNE membershipcard
Plus € 15,00 for the catalogue, reduced price, if you want one (and who would not....)
Please send in the form as soon as possible to Mr. M. Kraayeveld, Herengracht 409, 1017 BP, Amsterdam, or send
the information by e-mail to [email protected]
Mr. Kraayeveld can be reached by telephone during office hours at 030-6076214
After payment, your name will be added to our list of participants.
How to pay: The appropriate amount should be remitted to Postbank no. 4677160 of Genootschap NederlandEngeland, Afd. Amsterdam, before February 1.
The Amsterdam branch hopes to welcome very many members of GNE at this unique event!
Looking Back...
Our Chistmas Party on 9th December was a great success. The venue was excellent: the Children’s books department of the
English Bookshop at the Lauriergracht. Ilonka played several pieces by Bach and DeBussy on her Flute, Kitty read a humorous
Christmassy story by P.S.Wodehouse, in which Jeeves managed to visit MonteCarlo in spite of Bertie Wooster’s other plans.
(Proceedings involved a hotwater bottle and a needle). Several poems were recited and delicious yummies and mulled wine
made the party complete.
Kitty, who had organised all this for us deserves a statue for her very successful efforts.
Addresses you might need:
Mrs Kitty Kruijswijk-v.d.Woude
Chairman & secretary a.i.
Hoge Horn 109
1506 MS Zaandam
Tel.:075-6169936
Email: [email protected]
Mr Monty.Kraayeveld
(vice-chairman.)
Herengracht 409
1017 BP Amsterdam
Tel.: 030 6076214
Treasurer: vacancy
Information about coming events of the
Amsterdam Branch this season
Sunday, March 16, 2008 3 pm Golden Tulip Hotel
Christian Wolmar:
'Subterranean Railway'
Sunday, April 20, 2008 3 pm Golden Tulip Hotel
Ms Heather Woodward:
'Churchill of Chartwell'
Millais, Sir John Everett, 1st Baronet
born June 8, 1829, Southampton, Hampshire, Eng.
died Aug. 13, 1896, London
English painter and illustrator, and a founding member of the artistic
movement known as the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
In 1838 Millais went to London and at the age of 11 entered the Royal
Academy schools. Extremely precocious, he won all the academy prizes. In
1848 Millais joined with two other artists, William Holman Hunt and Dante
Gabriel Rossetti, to form the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. The Brotherhood
was founded in opposition to contemporary academic painting, which the
group believed was the result of the example set by Raphael and which had
dominated the schools and academies since his time. At the next year's
academy, the novelist Charles Dickens led a violent attack on Millais's “Christ
in the House of His Parents” (1850; Tate Gallery, London), which many
considered blasphemous because of its lack of idealization and seeming
irreverence in the use of the mundane.
Millais's period of greatest artistic achievement came in the 1850s. “The
Return of the Dove to theArk” (1851; Ashmolean Museum, Oxford) was admired by both the English essayist and
critic John Ruskin and the French author Théophile Gautier; and “The Order of Release” (1853; Tate Gallery), which
included a portrait of his future wife Effie Gray (then unhappily married to Ruskin, whose portrait Millais also
painted), was praised by Eugène Delacroix in 1855 and earned for its artist his associateship to the Royal Academy in
1853. In 1856 Millais painted one of his greatest public successes, “The Blind Girl” (Birmingham Museums and Art
Gallery)—a tour de force of Victorian sentiment and technical facility.
In 1863 Millais became full academician, and by this time his style had
broadened and his content altered toward a more deliberately popular,
less didactic approach. He executed illustrations for George Dalziel's
Parables (1864) and E. Moxon's edition of Tennyson's poems and
contributed to Once a Week, Good Words and other periodicals.
Millais's later work is undoubtedly of poorer overall quality—a
deterioration of which he was fully aware. In 1870 appeared the first of
his pure landscapes, “Chill October.” Many of these landscapes are of
Perthshire, where Millais shot and fished in the autumn. Many portraits
belong to this late period, including those of William Gladstone, of
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and of Cardinal Newman. Millais was created
a baronet in 1885 and was elected president of the Royal Academy in
1896.
(Source: Encyclopedia Britannica)
Amsterdam Branch
AANMELDINGSFORMULIER MILLAIS D.D. 29 FEBRUARI 2008
Ondergetekende(n) meldt/melden zich aan voor de bijeenkomst in het van Gogh Museum op 29 februari 2008 en
heeft/hebben de bijdrage overgemaakt op postgiro 4677160.
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Programma met museumkaart (meenemen) € 15,00
Programma zonder museumkaart € 23,50
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Programma met museumkaart + catalogus € 30,00
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Programma zonder museumkaart + catalogus € 38,50
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(Voorbeeld) als u met z’n tweeën komt, één heeft een museumkaart en de ander niet, en u bestelt samen
één catalogus, dan kruist u 1 hokje bij 2 aan en 1 bij 3 (of: 1 bij 1 en 1 bij 4)
Opsturen naar: M. Kraayeveld, Herengracht 409, 1017 BP AMSTERDAM
U bent geregistreerd, tenzij u binnen 1 week bericht krijgt dat het vol is.