In North Holland, between 1915 and 1925, the Bergen School flourished. Famous for its extraordinary light, the town was the site of an artist’s colony founded by the French painter Henri Le Fauconnier and the Dutch painter Piet van Wijngaerdt, who outlined their aesthetic in the radical magazine Het Signaal. Like the Fauvists in France and the Expressionists in Germany, the Bergen group was rebelling against Impressionism and sought to replace realism with its particular brand of abstraction. Strong lines, bold colors, and simplified forms, an approach akin to Cubism, were the movement’s hallmarks. The influence of Vincent van Gogh and Paul Cezanne on Bergen artists is the subject of this exhibition. —Elena Clavarino