Frans Langeveld

Dutch painter, draftsman and lithographer Frans Langeveld studied at the Evening Working School of Amsterdam and at the State School for Applied Arts in Amsterdam in 1896-97. Langeveld lived from 1892-1903 in Amsterdam, working partly under the pseudonym Dick Rossbart, and then in Laren, with a brief interruption in 1916 in Hattem. In between, he also worked in Rotterdam, Paris and München. He produced mainly landscapes with figures, cityscapes and interiors with figures, with a work distinguished by sturdy, rugged and robust structures. In 1938, Langeveld lost all his possessions as his lovingly restored farmhouse burned down to the ground. Just one year later he died of a heart attack or stroke. His wife Ida Langeveld-Dubourq (1885-1928) was also a painter.

As early as in 1926, Langeveld painted his Skaters on the Brink, Laren – the title used today – a scene from his adopted home of Laren (oil on canvas, 73 x 130 cm). The painting fetched more than €43,000 at an auction at Christie’s in 2013. The painting was exhibited “hors concours” in Berlin 1936.