August Allebé

August Allebé (1838, Amsterdam 1927, Amsterdam), was a 19th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands. August Allebé went through in his career, the styles of the romanticism on the realism through to impressionism.[1] He was also a major initiator and promoter of Amsterdam Impressionism, the artist's association St. Lucas and the movement of the Amsterdamse Joffers.[2][3][4] He was one of the key factors of the Amsterdam Impressionism - this is referred to by art historians as the School of Allebé. In the movement of the Dutch Impressionism she was the counterflow to the very strong Hague School. A cosmopolitan attitude toward art as a movement and the promotion and motivation of his students is very important for the Rijksakademie. Thus she has been a place of work and part of the art movements of the early 20th century substantial proportion. There were a significant stimulous to the movement of avant-garde in art.[5]


Portrait by Allebé of Johannes Luden, 1868, collection Teylers Museum

According to the RKD he followed evening classes at Felix Meritis and studied at the Antwerp Academy, the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.[6] He was a pupil of Petrus Franciscus Greive, Adolphe Mouilleron, Charles Rochussen and Louis Royer. He became a member of Arti et Amicitiae in Amsterdam from 1863 and a member of Société Royale Belge des Aquarellistes from 1868.[6] In 1870 he became a professor at the Royal Academy of Amsterdam (Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten) and was a director there from 1880.[6] The RKD lists 179 pupils and it is known that he stayed in correspondence with ex-pupils and several artists came back to the academy to be able to follow classes with him.[6]

He was a strong influence on the Amsterdamse Joffers, and had close ties with Amsterdam Impressionism.

He is buried at Zorgvlied cemetery.

A square is named after him in the neighborhood of streets named after 19th- and 20th-century Dutch painters in Overtoomse Veld-Noord, Amsterdam.

Art Association St. Lucas

In 1880, the Artist's association St. Lucas to Amsterdam was founded with his support.[7][8] They became part of the Amsterdam art scene: She was community center of artists and art lovers of the panel painting. Here contacts were made, passed on knowledge and thus the antithesis of successful structured Hague School, which was part of the international movement of impressionism. In addition, links to Amsterdam Soziëteit Arti et Amicitiae were present, which were essential for both institutions.

Some of his well known students

Successful students of Allebé

Gallery of the important students


In possession of the Museum a.s.f.




  1. The Impressionism as an international movement lasted from about 1860 to 1920.
  2. From about 1610 the old guilds emerged in the Low Countries and the last was disbanded around 1795. Almost every town had such one and they were founded for economic reasons. They must be seen in connection with the 1. Dutch golden age of painting.
  3. It was named after the patron of the painters.
  4. The flow of Amsterdamse Joffers is a movement within the Amsterdam Impressionism. Its members, however, have always chosen their own way.
  5. Here the modern art as movement is understood as superordinate term for an era. Her end is seen in the art movement of post-modernism.
  6. 1 2 3 4 August Allebé in the RKD
  7. The patron saint of painters is the Holy St. Luke. This new artist's association has been named after him.
  8. The first arts guilds of St. Lucas had been founded already in the 16th century in the Low Countries. The starting point was the reform movement of 1579 and the shaking of the catholic state power of the Habsburg Kingdom of Spain. In 1610/11 they were founded in Haarlem, Gouda, Delft, Rotterdam and The Hague. The last of their kind existed in Antwerp until 1795.
  9. 1 2 3 4 She belongs to the "Amsterdamse Joffers", part of the Amsterdamse Impressionism.
  10. 1 2 3 He had got privat lessons.
  11. He has been a short time at the akademy and left it for Paris.
  12. Art historians believe that Piet Mondriaan was student of Prof. Allebé, too.
  13. She had got private lessons.
  14. In 1880 he got the membership of St. Lucas as student.
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