Project Description

Huile sur toile

Dimensions : 73 cm x 52 cm

Signed lower right : G Wildschut

Reims Cathedral World War I bombing

George Peter Wilhelmus Wildschut

(Amsterdam 23/02/1883 – Laren Hollande du Nord 02/10/1966).

Painter, designer, Dutch engraver and bookbinder. He was a pupil of Antoon Derkinderen at the Rijksakademie for Visual Arts (Amsterdam)

He lived and worked in Purmerend (1906), Amsterdam (1906-1924) Bloemendaal, Haarlem, Laren (1929-1966).

Reims Cathedral during the 1st World War.

Other known works

A work he made in the Jewish quarter of Amsterdam. Property of the Art Gallery of Simon & Bunk Art Gallery- Netherlands

Another work of everyday life. Property of the Art Gallery Simonos & buunk Art Gallery – Netherlands

He made figurative painting, landscapes, representations of animals.

Cows in the stream Propriété de la Collection Streefoord art trade

He also designed for the Becht publication some illustrations for children's books as well as the Mulder Publishing House.

Around the world with a ready-made plane (1959), The lake of wonders and other stories (1921), The Fables d’Æsopus (1920), Such a wave (1925), Echoué (1924), Safe ! : wandering of two young light sailors through the Indian wonderland (1925), Peruvian diamonds: trips to Brazil and Peru (1925), The Knights of the U-turn , The Tyrant of Celebes (1925), Children in the forest (1909) , The bad shepherd (1909), A happy trio (1925), Once upon a time…(19-?), Storybook (1909), Aus so beautiful as the sun, The candle man (1920)…

A work presented on wild shot George Petrus. Gai Moulin albums from Mulder editions, undated, 1960

Another illustrator's work

Another historical work proposed by the Gallery.