The Hague School

The Hague School, a documentary exploring The Second Golden Age of Dutch Painting in the Nineteenth Century. For the first time ever, I was fortunate enough to have my own professional equipment to work with instead of checking out from Elon or relying solely on my phone.

“125 years ago, these paintings were so popular. Why doesn’t anyone know about the Hague School anymore?”

In three days, using a Sony HXR-NX80, iPhone 13, and DJI Mini 2, 8 hours, 26 minutes, and 11 seconds of raw footage was captured around the oldest continuously inhabited European-established city in the United States: St. Augustine, Florida. A year later, that footage was condensed into a 42-minute story that I sincerely hope you gain something from.

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Music:

Human Story (Debbie Wiseman & Universal Production Music), Dutch Windmills (Derek Fiechter & Brandon Fiechter), Go Baroque (Freedom Trail Studio), No Ordinary Life (Laurent Levesque), Contradfans (Joseph Aldenzee & Roderick Ruysdael), Kattedans (Joseph Aldenzee & Roderick Ruysdael), Past Mistakes (Julien Bourriaux), Postcard (Macaron) , Holland (Claus Backhaus, Joschi Dinier & Klaus D Stingel), Brian Boru March (John Edward Hawkins), Greensleeves (John Edward Hawkins) , Visa Från Utanmyra (Eric Gemsa), Happy Home (Olli Juhani Varis & Jarmo Mikael Julkunen), Blaue Donau (Eric Gemsa), Over The Fields (Sam Joseph Delves), and North To The Sea (Hans-Günther Wagener), the last 13 also distributed by UPM.

Archival Footage:

A Study of a Rose / Simonis Buunk, Alcazar Hotel / Lightner Museum, Antiques Roadshow / TV Show Starts, Anton Mauve / Anton Rudolf Mauve Artwork Authentication & Cincinnati Art Museum & The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art Auctions and Biddings / The Peak Magazine & StockCake & Forbes & CNN, Barbizon Paintings / National Galleries of Scotland & Rousseau & Fine Art America, Brussels / Getty Images & Artistic Expression, Castillo de San Marcos / Florida Memory, Classical Painting / Britannica, Dutch Romantic Painting / Invaluable Auction, Horsemen Near a Puddle / Simonis Buunk, Hut in Hattem / Wikimedia Commons, Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch / Shop Art UK, Jozef Israels / Fine Art America, Peasant Girl Feeding Chickens / Art UK Shop, Lightner Director / St. Augustine Record & YouTube, Map of Europe / StepMap, Mauve the Loggers / The Loggers, Mesdags / Klook United States & Wikimedia Commons & Christie's & My Daily Art Display, Mexico City / Thrillist, Netherlands / Utrecht, Netherlands Early 1900s | Reddit, Paris Salon / My Modern Met, Photos of Paris / Monovisions, Groningen / Discover Groningen, Saint Augustine / HISTORY, Scheveningen WW2 / PICRYL, Strandgezicht Rijksmuseum / Wikimedia Commons, Summer Day / Wikidata, The Great Oaks of Old Bas-Bréau / Wikimedia Commons, The Hague / Audley Travel UK & Bonhams, The Return of the Flock / Wikimedia Commons, The Trekvliet Shipping Canal / Meisterdrucke, Today in Met History / The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tussen Kunst Kitsch / TVTunes Quiz, Van Gogh / TripAdvisor & Britannica & Gail Sibley & Art UK, Willem De Winter Clips / Avrotros & RTL Z & Pletterij, Willem Roelofs / 1822-1897 Paintings for Sale, Women's Rights in the Netherlands / Institute for Gender Equality, World Wars / The Netherlands in WW1 | History Guild & War Is H*ll & ShortVerse & Veterans Affairs Canada, Years of History on Display / The Bowery Boys, Zandvoort Beach / View of the Beach at Zandvoort with Fishing Boats

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My family and I drove down to St. Augustine on July 9th, 2024. For the next three days, I interviewed Don in his house, recorded his explanations of various paintings in the museum, and shot b-roll around the beautiful area. At the time, I had no idea that it would take a year to fully complete the project, but I also had no idea how large of an impact the experience would have on me. In the words of Mr. Robbins, “I’m really moved by art. I didn’t know that that really was the case.”

While there were a lot of challenges along the way- my equipment almost not arriving to Florida on time, getting used to new lights, mics, and other gear, school getting too busy to work on it for nine months, and our car even getting hit by a biker who made too sharp of a turn on our last night busting the headlight- I believe it was all worth it. I even got to see my friend Peter. It has been a busy and long year, but finally, The Hague School in the 19th Century has come back to life in the 21st.

“The Hague School has been forgotten. People loved (Anton Mauve, Hendrik Mesdag, Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch, and so many others back then). Why wouldn’t they love it today? They can still understand the pictures.”

Check out Don’s Book:
https://www.goosepenpress.com/project...
Check out the Lightner Museum:
https://lightnermuseum.org/exhibition...

Hartelijk dank voor het kijken. Ik hoop dat deze kunst over vele jaren net zoveel impact op mensen heeft als vele jaren geleden.