Simon Moulijn (20 July 1866 – 2 Nov. 1948); Dutch painter, draftsman and graphic artist. He was one of the eminent visual artists of his time and became especially well known for his lithographic works. ...During the period of his artistic search Simon Moulijn followed the examples set by the modern French painters as well as Jan Toorop and Vincent van Gogh. The Symbolism of the Belgian philosopher Maurice Maeterlinck also strongly influenced his work. Moulijn himself writes about this period in the year 1913: “his mysticism led me to distort nature in a barbaric way.” Although in later work Symbolism often shows through, Moulijn developed around 1893-1894 an artistic style and figurative language. His first big success was the one man exposition in the Hôtel de l’Art Nouveau of S. Bing in Paris during summer 1896. Always in search of new inspiration, Moulijn traveled a lot. He worked, among other places, in the Dutch provinces Drenthe, North Brabant, Gelderland (Guelders), Zeeland and in the southern part of Limburg. His travels also led him abroad and he worked in Germany (among other places in Monschau and Holzhausen 1905, Todtnau 1922), in Switzerland (Kandersteg 1926), In Italy (among other places Tivoli (Villa d’Este) and Frascati 1911, Florence 1938), in Luxemburg (Beaufort 1913), in France (among other places Fontainebleau 1930, Versailles 1930 and 1934, Neuilly 1931, various places along the river Oise (among other at Royaumont Abbey) 1939 and in the Alpes Maritimes 1938). The result of these journeys was a large number of paintings, drawings and lithographs. Moulijn’s fascination with nature and the various forms and atmospheres of landscape is one of the main themes of his work. Apart from his first paintings in academic style his independent development began with the simplifying nearly abstract sceneries influenced by symbolism and a certain mysticism. But over the years he tends more and more... “ [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Moulijn] undefined

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