Co Breman
{{Short description|Dutch painter}}
Ahazueros Jacobus Breman, known as Co (7 December 1865, Zwolle - 18 November 1938, Laren) was a Dutch painter.{{cite web |title=Co Breman |url=https://rkd.nl/nl/explore/artists/12332 |website=RKD |access-date=7 March 2021 |language=nl}} He specialized in landscapes, farms and interior scenes, with figures, and was one of the first Pointillist painters in the Netherlands.{{cite book |chapter=Breman, Co, for Jacobus Ahazverus |chapter-url=https://www.oxfordartonline.com/benezit/view/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.001.0001/acref-9780199773787-e-00026090 |website=Benezit Dictionary of Artists |doi=10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00026090 |isbn=978-0-19-977378-7 |access-date=7 March 2021 |language=en|title=Benezit Dictionary of Artists |year=2011 }}
Biography
His father, Willem Fredrik Breman (1829-1875), owned a carpentry and blacksmithing shop. He had five siblings, including Evert Breman, a well-known architect. After his father's death, he was placed with guardians who encouraged his artistic inclinations.[http://www.devalk.com/kunstenaars/breman/breman.html Brief biography] @ the De Valk Lexicon kunstenaars Laren-Blaricum, His first formal lessons were at a local art school operated by Jan Derk Huibers, who worked in traditional styles. In 1889, he went to Brussels, where he found work doing decorative painting while he studied at the Academie Royal des Beaux Arts. In 1893, he spent some time in Paris.
He then went to Amsterdam, where he joined the Guild of Saint Luke and Arti et Amicitiae. In 1897, based on the recommendations of his associates, he settled in Gooi. Then, he and several friends opened studios in an old brewery in Blaricum; becoming well known locally for their Bohemian lifestyles. Two years later, he had become successful enough to purchase a house, where their behavior became even more riotous. They were also regular visitors to a former pub owned by {{ill|Jan Hamdorff|nl}}, a hotelier, Alderman and, most importantly, art dealer, who opened a gallery there in 1913.
He was the secretary of a local painter's club called "De Tien" (The Ten), that presented regular exhibitions. He also showed his works in Madrid, Berlin, London, San Francisco and Glasgow.{{cite web |title=Co Breman (1865-1938) |url=https://www.simonis-buunk.com/artist/co-breman/artworks-for-sale/1884/ |website=Simonis & Buunk |access-date=7 March 2021}}
From 1913, he and his wife, the artist Lizzy Schouten{{cite web |title=Lizzy Schouten |url=https://rkd.nl/nl/explore/artists/71099 |website=RKD |access-date=7 March 2021 |language=nl}} lived in Laren, where they had a daughter. From 1921 until his death, he was President of the "Kunstenaarsvereniging Laren-Blaricum" (Artists' Society). A street in Laren is named after him. Most of his major works may be seen at the Frans Hals Museum, the Dordrechts Museum and the Singer Museum.
Selected paintings
File:Breman Brink.jpg|The Reformed Church
in Laren
File:Breman Gezicht op Deventer 1922.jpg|View of Deventer
File:Breman, Meisje voor een boerderij in Het Gooi.jpg|Woman at a Farm in Gooi
File:Breman In den tuin 1917.jpg|In the Garden
References
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Further reading
- Carole Denninger-Schreuder: Schilders van Laren, Toth, Bussum, 2003. {{ISBN|978-90-686-8327-1}}
- W.P. de Vries jr: "Co Breman", from Elsevier's Geïllustreerd Maandschrift, Vol.19, #37, 1909. [http://www.elseviermaandschrift.nl/EGM/1909/01/19090101/EGM-19090101-0310/story.pdf]
External links
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- [http://www.artnet.com/artists/co-jacobus-ahazuerus-breman/past-auction-results ArtNet: More works by Breman]
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Category:20th-century Dutch painters