Identifier: artartistsofourt04cook (find matches)
Title: Art and artists of our time
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900
Subjects: Painting Painters
Publisher: New York, S. Hess
Contributing Library: Brandeis University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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ist than the others; his j)ictures are interesting in themselves to a degree rarelyattained by any German landscape-painter, unless it be his own brother Oswald. It is easyto recognize this in comparing even the single example we are able to give of his work withthose of Hildebrandt, Calame, and Preller—although, as we have admitted, our plate hardlydoes Preller justice. There is a richness, a sense of life, in this subject that are in strong con-trast vsdth the emptiness or tameness that we find in the pictures of these other artists. Thisis the Jews Quarter in Amsterdam, or a corner of it, for the place itself impresses the visitoras a much more crowded and populous neighborhood than is shown in Achenbachs picture.This portion of the city has been occupied for several hundred years, almost exclusively byJews, who are said to form a tenth part or thereabout, of the population. They represent agreat deal of wealth, and own no less than ten synagogues. Since the extension of the city
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ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 28g toward the east, and the establishment of the famous Zoological Gardens—the richest of thesort in Europe—together with the imiDrovement of the docks and wharves in that part of thetown, the Jews Quarter no longer has the picturesque and tumbledown irregularity shownin our picture. This is owing to the fact that the stream of travel between the Dam, thecentral part of the old city and the main seat of traffic, and the new, fashionable district inthe east, passes directly through the Jews Quarter, and the natural tendency has been to

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