This richly illustrated book follows the journeys of Dutch artist Isaac Israels (18651934), whose restless wanderlust took him across Europe and profoundly shaped his artistic vision. The son of painter Jozef Israels, Isaac immersed himself in the cultural life of cities such as Paris, London, and Berlin, and travelled extensively through Italy, Austria, Spain, Denmark, and Sweden. Even during the First World War, he continued to explore the continent, sketching the people and places he encountered. His dynamic paintings reveal a Europe in transitionvibrant, cosmopolitan, and increasingly modern. Through Israels eyes, the book reflects on themes of migration, identity, and the visual expression of Europeanness at the dawn of the 20th century. Presented by the Kröller-Müller Museum, home to one of the worlds foremost collections of modern art, it offers an evocative journey through both art and history.
Foreword by Benno Tempel, Director of Kröller-Müller Museum
Isaac Israels and the Visual Imagination of Europeanness by Prof. Dr. Michael
Wintle
Looking, Travelling, Painting: The Wanderings of Isaac Israels by Frouke van
Dijke, Curator, Kunstmuseum The Hague
Isaac Israels and the Changing Image of Europe by Renske Cohen Tervaert,
Curator, Kröller-Müller Museum
Appendix
List of Works
Bibliography
Index
Benno Tempel (Harderwijk, 1972) is a Dutch art historian and museum director. Tempel attended secondary school at Christelijk College Nassau-Veluwe in his hometown and then studied art history at VU Amsterdam. He chose to specialise in modern visual arts, focusing on late 19th-century and early 20th-century painting. Michael Wintle (BA, MA, PhD) studied at Cambridge, Ghent and Hull Universities, and held the chair of European History at the University of Amsterdam from 2002 to 2019, where he taught on the degree programs in European Studies. Prior to 2002, he was Professor of European History at the University of Hull, UK, where he had taught since 1980.
