A collection of autograph letters signed by amongst others David Bles, George Hendrik Breitner, W. Drucker, Josef Israels, Karl Krauss, Hendrik Willem Mesdag, Wouterus Verschuur Jun. and Philip Zilcken addressed to Mr and Mrs Kijzer-Lanz dated between 1879 and 1912; and autograph letters signed by H.P. Berlage, Ferdinand Hodler, Jan Toorop and Professor W. Vogelsang addressed to Professor Otto Lanz dated between 1906 and 1927; a watercolour and a pen drawing by Karl Krauss; a signed sketch by Josef Israels; two portrait- photographs of David Bles and Rudolf Kijzer and various menucards and invitations addressed to Mr Kijzer (49)

Rudolf Kijzer was a hard-working businessman in Amsterdam who tried to visit as many art exhibitions as he could in his few moments of spare time. He is described as one of the first collectors who appreciated the art of his contemporaries of The Hague School. He became a close friend of Josef Israels and owned many oils and watercolours by other masters of The Hague School like Jacob Maris, Anton Mauve, Johannes Bosboom and of Laren School painters like Jacob Simon Hendrik Kever and Albert Neuhuys a.o. (For more information on Kijzer, see Ph. Zilcken in Vereeniging tot bevordering van Beeldende Kunsten, Premie uitgave, 1898)

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