Carel Vosmaer
Carel Vosmaer (20 March 1826 – 12 June 1888) was a Dutch poet and art critic, born at The Hague. He wrote under the pseudonym Flanor. Life He studied law at the University of Leiden, obtaining a degree in 1851, and was for many years Deputy Recorder to the High Court of Justice in his native town, "an office he resigned in 1873, in order to devote himself wholly to art and letters." His first volume of poems, 1860, did not contain much that was remarkable. His temperament was starved in the very thin air of the intellectual the Netherlands of those days, and it was not until after the sensational appearance of Multatuli (pen name of Edward Douwes-Dekker) that Vosmaer, at the age of forty, woke up to a consciousness of his own talent. In 1869 he produced an exhaustive monograph on Rembrandt, which was issued in French. Vosmaer became a contributor to, and then the leading spirit and editor of, a journal which played an immense part in the awakening of Dutch literature; this wa ...
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Vosmaer Fountain The Hague
Vosmaer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Arnout Vosmaer (1720–1799), Dutch naturalist * Bobby Vosmaer (b. 1951), Dutch former footballer * Carel Vosmaer (1826–1888), Dutch poet and art-critic * Daniel Vosmaer (c. 1630–after 1666), Dutch Golden Age painter * Gualtherus Carel Jacob Vosmaer (1854–1916), Dutch zoologist * Jacob Vosmaer (1574–1641), Dutch Golden Age painter * Liesbeth Vosmaer-de Bruin (born 1946), Dutch retired rower {{surname ...
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