Isaac Israels' Europe
Uitgeverij de Kunst (Publisher)
Published on 27. May 2026
Book
Hardback
160 pages
978-94-6262-684-3 (ISBN)
Description
This richly illustrated book follows the journeys of Dutch artist Isaac Israels (1865-1934), whose restless wanderlust took him across Europe and profoundly shaped his artistic vision. The son of painter Jozef Israels, Isaac immersed himself in the cultural life of cities such as Paris, London, and Berlin, and travelled extensively through Italy, Austria, Spain, Denmark, and Sweden. Even during the First World War, he continued to explore the continent, sketching the people and places he encountered. His dynamic paintings reveal a Europe in transition-vibrant, cosmopolitan, and increasingly modern. Through Israels' eyes, the book reflects on themes of migration, identity, and the visual expression of "Europeanness" at the dawn of the 20th century. Presented by the Kroeller-Mueller Museum, home to one of the world's foremost collections of modern art, it offers an evocative journey through both art and history.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Netherlands
Illustrations
20 Illustrations, black and white; 120 Illustrations, color
Dimensions
Height: 290 mm
Width: 240 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
1260 gr
ISBN-13
978-94-6262-684-3 (9789462626843)
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Persons
Benno Tempel (Harderwijk, 1972) is a Dutch art historian and museum director. Tempel attended secondary school at Christelijk College Nassau-Veluwe in his hometown and then studied art history at VU Amsterdam. He chose to specialise in modern visual arts, focusing on late 19th-century and early 20th-century painting. Michael Wintle (BA, MA, PhD) studied at Cambridge, Ghent and Hull Universities, and held the chair of European History at the University of Amsterdam from 2002 to 2019, where he taught on the degree programs in European Studies. Prior to 2002, he was Professor of European History at the University of Hull, UK, where he had taught since 1980.
Content
Foreword by Benno Tempel, Director of Kroeller-Mueller Museum
Isaac Israels and the Visual Imagination of Europeanness by Prof. Dr. Michael Wintle
Looking, Travelling, Painting: The Wanderings of Isaac Israels by Frouke van Dijke, Curator, Kunstmuseum The Hague
Isaac Israels and the Changing Image of Europe by Renske Cohen Tervaert, Curator, Kroeller-Mueller Museum
Appendix
List of Works
Bibliography
Index
Isaac Israels and the Visual Imagination of Europeanness by Prof. Dr. Michael Wintle
Looking, Travelling, Painting: The Wanderings of Isaac Israels by Frouke van Dijke, Curator, Kunstmuseum The Hague
Isaac Israels and the Changing Image of Europe by Renske Cohen Tervaert, Curator, Kroeller-Mueller Museum
Appendix
List of Works
Bibliography
Index