Godard Alexander Gerrit Philip Mollinger door Frederik Hendrik Weissenbruch

Godard Alexander Gerrit Philip Mollinger (8 March 1836,

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- 14 September 1867, Utrecht) was a Dutch landscape and

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painter. Although he signed his paintings "A. Mollinger", some sources refer to him as Gerrit Mollinger.

Biography

His father was an infantry officer. He began his studies at the municipal art school and was apprenticed to Willem Benedictus Stoof (1816-1900), a local genre artist. Later, he worked with his brother Louis (1825-1860), who had already established himself as a portrait painter. For two years, beginning in 1856, he took lessons from

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in Brussels. In 1860, he became a member of

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. He eventually decided to focus on landscapes with figures, in the style of the Barbizon school. His works were very successful in the British Isles; winning awards at the

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in London and the Edinburgh Exposition of 1866. Shortly after the latter event, the Scottish painter Sir

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visited Utrecht to take lessons from him and introduced Dutch painting styles to Scotland. This, however, was met with disapproval from the

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. By this time, Mollinger was beginning to display the advanced symptoms of

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, which had been diagnosed the year before. From 1866 to 1867, he lived in

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, on the

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, seeking a cure, but the disease continued to worsen and he returned to Utrecht, where he died at his home. Friends and relatives took up a collection to erect a monument on his grave.

Selected paintings

File:Mollinger-Milk.jpg, Carrying Milk File:Mollinger-Pipe.png, Filling a Pipe File:Mollinger-Moving.jpg, Moving at Night

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Mollinger, Alexander 1836 births 1867 deaths 19th-century Dutch painters Dutch male painters Dutch landscape painters Dutch genre painters Painters from Utrecht (city) 19th-century deaths from tuberculosis Tuberculosis deaths in the Netherlands 19th-century Dutch male artists

Biography

Selected paintings

Further reading

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