Education
Royal Academy of Artist
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Royal Academy of Artist
From 1855 to 1864 Artz trained with J.H. Egenberger and Louis Royer at the Amsterdam Academie. There he met Jozef Israëls, whose fishing subjects were to be a lasting source of inspiration for Artz. He worked with Israëls in Zandvoort in 1859.
Unlike Israëls, however, Artz depicted only the more cheerful sides of the fisherman’s life.
Technically, he distinguished himself from Israëls in his use of sharp outlines and bright colour. Between 1866 and 1874 Artz stayed in Paris where he set up his own studio at the suggestion of Courbet.
During this period Artz produced mainly fashionable genre scenes and a number of Japanese subjects. His control over line and colour became more powerful.
Hollandsche Teekenmaatschappij. Hague School]
From 1855-1864 he was a member of the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam.