Krantenknipsel betreffende Jac. P. Thijsse c. 1910 - 1949

This photograph of Jac. P. Thijsse, taken by an anonymous artist, feels like a moment captured in time with the subtlest of sepia tones. The magic here is in how the artist uses light and shadow to create a dreamy atmosphere, kind of like memory itself. The texture, oh, it’s almost velvety, isn’t it? Look at how the surface seems to absorb the light, making the details in the water and foliage just melt into each other. And then, there's Jac. P. Thijsse himself, emerging from this hazy backdrop, solid but somehow part of the dream too. It's the contrast between the defined and the undefined that really grabs you, blurring the line between real and imagined. It reminds me a bit of some early Gerhard Richter paintings, where he was playing with the same kind of blurry photo realism, and that tension between clarity and abstraction.