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Marleen Felius (1948)

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The subject…..COWS…. and cows only . All kinds of breeds are painted by Felius who has a career with painting cows of almost 50 years now.  The realistic subject was getting more attention in the mid Seventies after a period of only abstract art which was discussed and shown at the dutch galeries.

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The cow paintings by Felius have since been acquired by many public collections in the Netherlands and abroad. Every now and then a painting is offered at auction and bought at a fair price by admirers and art collectors. Among them:

Gemeente Museum het Catharina Gasthuis, Gouda
Gemeente Museum, Arnhem
Caldic Collection, Rotterdam
Hedendaagse Kunst, Utrecht
Bouwfonds Nederlandse Gemeenten
ING bank collectie
Friesland Bank, Leeuwarden
Lagoa ltd, São Paulo, Brazilië

Take a look at her internet site and see a very nice collections of her paintings ( some are for sale) and for the book published by MSSET….it is now available at www.ftn-books.com

 

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dutch cows and the HAAGSE SCHOOL

Blue skies with clouds chasing by,  Grey Skies, meadows,  windmills, ponds, hay stacks. Put this all in a blender and you will have the ingredients of a dutch impressionist or THE HAGUE school painting. The Netherlands was famous for his landscape painting from the 16th century on, but only in the last 150 years the painter approached his subjects and showed in detail what landscape painting was all about. Willem Maris was one of them and together with Weisssenbruch he made some of the best landscape paintings from his time. Beautiful skies and detail , perfect light and in many cases decorated with cows in the meadow. If you want to see the best from the THE HAGUE school painters, buy the books on the DE HAAGSE SCHOOL at www.ftn-books.com and for the best examples from this school visit the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag and the Mesdag museum, both in The Hague.