Vintage photographs of Amsterdam streets taken by George Hendrik Breitner, 1890-1900

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Starting from the 1890s, the famous Dutch impressionist painter George Hendrik Breitner (1857 – 1923) used his camera to record the everyday life in the streets of Amsterdam. He found photographs to be a useful tool for capturing fleeting conditions of street life and atmospheric effects – rainy weather in particular – as reference materials […]

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