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The Damrak, Amsterdam
Also titled Het Damrak in Amsterdam
George Hendrik Breitner (Rotterdam, 1857–1923)
1903
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- depth 15 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- A. van Wezel Bequest, Amsterdam
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
Since 1889 Amsterdam’s Centraal Station has blocked the link between the Damrak (a straight stretch of the Amstel River) and the IJ (the city’s former bay). Once an open body of water, the Damrak was turned into an inner harbour. Here Breitner depicted the houses on the Warmoesstraat and the Oudekerk tower. He used a photograph, which included the Koopmansbeurs (Commodity Exchange) – then under construction. In his painting, this building was completely omitted.
