Elige un estado de ánimo y la propia sala te responderá: la luz se enfría o se calienta, el aire cambia su ritmo y solo las obras que evocan ese sentimiento emergen de la oscuridad. Todo lo demás retrocede hacia la sombra.
Early Life and Training Paulus van der Velden (1837 – 1913), a Dutch artist of Dutch descent, was born in Rotterdam; his parents were Jacoba van Essel and Joannes van der Velden, a warehouse manager. Petrus began drawing lessons at around the age of 13 and subsequently apprenticed as a lithographer. In 1858, he founded a lithographic printing firm in Rotterdam with business partner J. G. Zijderman. He studied at the academies in Rotter
dam and Berlin. He registered at the Academy of Art, Rotterdam in 1868. After a stay on the island of Marken (1871–73) he lived in or near The Hague until 1888 and was part of the Hague School in artistic and stylistic origins. During this period he painted mainly genre scenes such as “The Dutch Funeral” (1872; Christchurch, NZ, McDougall A.G.) and “The Old Cellist” (1887; The Hague, Gemeentemus.); he also produced some landscapes, for…