Isaac Isreals Europe by ACC Art Books

Isaac Israels and Europe

1877 − 1879

The first European trips with his family begin in 1877. In addition to Paris and London, they travel through Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Italy, including an audience with Pope Pius IX in Rome. From this point on, he attends the Paris Salon every year.

1885

Together with Rudolf Steinmetz to the Belgian mining region of the Borinage and Charleroi.

1889

Five weeks in Paris with Frans Erens, many visits to famous writers and artists.

1891

A trip to Hamburg to see Arij Prins in October.

1894

With Jozef Israëls and Erens via Antwerp, Brussels, Paris and Avignon to Spain. From San Sebastián, Burgos, Madrid, Toledo, Córdoba, Seville, a short crossing to Tangier (North Africa) and via Gibraltar to Granada, Valencia and Barcelona.

1895 − 1899

Visits to Paris, Berlin, Kassel, and other cities. A dream trip to Russia is cancelled.

1900

Paris with a visit to the World’s Fair.

1903 − 1913

Increasingly longer stays in Paris. From 1906 onwards with his own studio at 9 Boulevard de Clichy (10 Rue Alfred Stevens), which he keeps until around 1925. Short trips from Paris to places such as Spa, Chartres, Biarritz, the Spanish Basque Country, Venice, Rothenburg and Nuremberg.

1913 − 1914

Stays in London with his own studio at 6 Fitzroy Street. The First World War begins on 28 July 1914. Returns to the Netherlands in late 1914.

1915

Travels to Switzerland twice, staying in Bern and trips to Fribourg, Morat (Murten) and the Jungfrau. In July he visits Paris, followed by a brief trip to his studio in London.

1919 − 1920

Several visits to his studios in Paris and London. In the summer of 1920, a trip to Copenhagen and Stockholm together with Sophie de Vries-Dalberg.

1921 − 1922

In the summer of 1921 he visits Baden-Baden and Berlin. In October 1921 he travels via the ports of Southampton, Genoa and Port Said (Egypt) through the Suez Canal and Colombo (Sri Lanka) to the Dutch East Indies, where he stays for a year.

1923

Summer in St. Moritz and Pontresina.

1924 − 1934

Visits the British Empire Exhibition in London. Until around 1931 he makes several trips to Italian cities such as Florence, Venice and Rome, and the beaches of Viareggio, Lido-Venice, Rimini, Portorož and the French Juan-les-Pins/ Antibes.

Newcastle upon Tyne

Burgos

London

Dover Folkestone Newhaven

San Sebastian Hondarribia Biarritz

Bruges

Calais Antwerp

Brussels

Charleroi Borinage

Spa

Paris

Copenhagen

Gothenburg

Malmö

Gedser

Warnemünde

Lübeck

Hamburg

Kassel

Berlin

Dresden

Neurenberg

Rothenburg

Baden-Baden

Munich Innsbruck

Chartres Rimini

Murten

Pontarlier

Bern Freiburg

Sankt Moritz

Milan Aix-les-Bains

Turin

Avignon Antibes Juan-les-Pins

Perpignan

Barcelona

Madrid Aranjuez

Toledo

Córdoba

Sevilla Ronda

Gibraltar Cádiz

Algeciras

Granada

Valencia

Pontresina

Venice

Verona

Genoa

Pisa

Viareggio

Florence

Rome

Portorož

Stockholm

Vienna

Napels

Kröller-Müller

Cat. 5 Construction Site with Workmen, Borinage 1885

Kröller-Müller

Cat. 6 Landscape with Farmer and Child, Borinage, 1885

Kröller-Müller

Cat. 4 Landscape with Workmen, Borinage, 1885

Museum, Otterlo

Cat. 34 Reading in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris 1903–1913 Kunstgalerij Albricht, Oosterbeek

Cat. 35 In the Bois de Boulogne Near Paris, 1900–1913 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Cat. 55 Horse Riders, Rotten Row Hyde Park, London, 1913–1914 Private collection

Cat. 56 Self-portrait on stationary from the Buckingham Temperance Hotel in London with text addressed to Mrs DruckerFraser, c. 20 mei 1897 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Fig. 23 Postcard from Isaac Israels to Frans Erens, Copenhagen 24 August 1920 Museum of Literature, The Hague

Cat. 70 View of the Church of Our Saviour in Copenhagen, 1920 Private collection

Cat. 85 On the Beach at Viareggio, 1923–1929 Private collection

> Cat. 87 Bathers on the Beach at Viareggio Private collection

Cat. 92 With a Parasol on the Beach, Viareggio, 1923–1929 Private collection

Cat. 93 Italian Lady Standing on the Beach at Viareggio, 1928

Private collection

Credits

This publication has been published on the occasion of the exhibition:

Isaac Israels’ Europe

Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo 24 April – 30 August 2026

Authors

Renske Cohen Tervaert, Curator

Kröller-Müller Museum

Julie van Loon, Curator-in-training

Kröller-Müller Museum

Frouke van Dijke, Curator Kunstmuseum

Den Haag

Michael Wintle, Emeritus Professor of Modern European History, University of Amsterdam

Lenders

Centraal Museum Utrecht

Collection of Beeckmans-Coucke family

Haags Gemeentearchief, The Hague

Jewish Museum, Amsterdam KB, National Library of the Netherlands, The Hague

Kunstgalerij Albricht, Oosterbeek

Kunstmuseum Den Haag Museum Gouda

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede

Singer Laren

Stichting Collectie Nagelhout, Holten

Various private collections

Publishers

Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo Waanders Publishers, Zwolle

Editors

Renske Cohen Tervaert

Jannet de Goede

Text editing and translation

Mike Ritchie

Image editing and Coördination

Kröller-Müller Museum

Esther van Maanen

Photography

Figure numbers:

1, 17, 29, 30: Rik Klein Gotink Fotografie

2, 5: Photograph-x The Hague

3, 9: Marjon Gemmeke

4: Heritage Image Partnership Ltd / Alamy

14: Hum Images / Alamy

18: Studio Tromp, c/o Pictoright Amsterdam 2026

26: NHM Wien / Alice Schumacher & Wilhelm Bauer-Thell

Catalogue numbers:

3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 19, 20, 23, 25, 30, 33, 37, 38, 39, 41, 43, 45, 47, 48, 49, 50, 52, 53, 57, 59, 61, 63, 64, 66, 68, 69, 70, 76, 77, 80, 81, 82, 84, 85, 88, 89, 91, 94: Rik Klein

Gotink Fotografie

15: Christie’s Images / Bridgeman Images 34, 42, 58: Bob Strik Fotografie

51: Tom Haartsen

54: Mark Smit Kunsthandel

79: Hans Wilschut

92: Benno Slijkhuis

Design

Saiid & Smale, Amsterdam

Lithography

Benno Slijkhuis, Wilco Art Books

Printing

Wilco Art Books, Amersfoort

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ISBN 9789462626843

NUR 644

This publication has also been published in a Dutch edition.

ISBN 9789462626836

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www.krollermuller.nl Cover

Front: With a Parasol on the Beach, Viareggio, 1923–1929 (detail, see cat. 92)

Back: Figures on a Sunny Beach, Italy, 1923–1929 (detail, see cat. 88)

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