| Olympic medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
| Art competitions | ||
| Gold | 1928 Amsterdam | Paintings |
Isaac Lazarus Israëls (Amsterdam, February 3, 1865 – The Hague, October 7, 1934) was a Dutch painter.
The son of the painter Jozef Israëls, Isaac Israëls developed an interest in painting in childhood. Between 1878 and 1880 he studied at the academy in The Hague. In 1881, when he was 16, he sold a painting even before it was finished to Hendrik Willem Mesdag, an artist and collector.
From 1886 Israëls lived in Amsterdam, and he registered at the Amsterdam Academy of Art to complete his schooling. However, he only stayed for a year. Israëls often spent the summer with his father in Scheveningen. Interested by the changing light of sun and sea, he painted many colorful seaside scenes.
In Amsterdam Israëls was a friend of George Hendrik Breitner. The two artists captured fleeting moments of everyday life in the Dutch capital. To create that immediacy of feeling, they used abruptly truncated figures. Between 1903 and 1923 Israëls spent most of his time working in Paris and London. In 1923 he returned to his parent's home in The Hague, where his father's studio became his workplace. There, until his death in 1934, he produced his impressionist paintings with their bright and brilliant colors.[1]