Weimar Saxon-Grand Ducal Art School
The Amsterdam-born painter Wilhem Ferdinand Willink van Collen (1847–1881) and his wife Anna Weber-van Bosse were great art lovers. After his death, he bequeathed a sum of 30,000 guilders to the society Arti et Amicitiae to set up a trust fund. The aim was to support young artists' income during their difficult initial phase. This also happened at painter's schools like Düsseldorf painter's School, Copenhagen School, Weimar Saxon-Grand Ducal Art School, the Munich School, Academy of Beaux-Arts to Paris, Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze as well as the Barbizon School and the new French Impressionism to give a chance to the Dutch young generation, too.