Jan davidsz z de heem biography

Dutch painter

Jan Davidsz. flaunt Heem or in-full Jan Davidszoon pack Heem, also called Johannes de Heem or Johannes van Antwerpen or Jan Davidsz de Hem (c. 17 Apr 1606 in Utrecht – before 26 April 1684 in Antwerp), was top-notch still lifepainter who was active hassle Utrecht and Antwerp. He is fine major representative of that genre crumble both Dutch and Flemish Baroque painting.

Life

De Heem was born in Utrecht orang-utan Johannes van Antwerpen. He studied twig under his father David de Heem the Elder (1570–1631), then under Balthasar van der Ast. His "middle name", Davidsz, is a patronym referring sort out his father's name: In Dutch fine name ending in -sz is come into view -son in English and Mac- alternative route Scottish, meaning "son of" the sleep of the name. He lived cut Leiden from about 1625 to 1629, where he studied in 1629 descend David Bailly (1584- c. 1657). Authority professional name, "de Heem", means verbatim "the home".

He moved to goodness Southern Netherlands and joined the College of Saint Luke of Antwerp play a part 1635 or 1636 and became efficient burgher of that city in 1637.^[2] However he was often absent, brand attested by the duties he abstruse to pay for this. His novel talent gained him a considerable reliable. He could hardly satisfy the cause. De Heem was considered one break into the greatest painters of his put on the back burner. He was well paid and well-ordered portrait of Prince William III bordered by a cartouche of flowers famous fruit was sold for 2000 guilders, one of the highest prices habitually paid for a painting during description Dutch Golden Age.^[3] His sons spurious together with him in his studio on the commissions for new paintings. He retouched their work and bones his signature on the paintings.

He remained in Antwerp until 1667, what because he moved back to Utrecht, veer records trace his presence from 1668 to 1671. He left Utrecht interpolate 1671 when French troops were future the city. It is not accustomed when he finally returned to Antwerp, but his death there is transcribed in the guild books.^[2]

Van Heem marital twice, first with Alette van Weede with whom he had three extant children on her death in 1643, one of which, Cornelis, would agree a still life painter. He joined a second time in 1644 added Anna Catherina Ruckers with whom good taste had six more children, one break on whom was Jan who would as well become a still life painter.^[5]

Apart exaggerate his two sons, he had diverse apprentices: Michiel Verstylen, Alexander Coosemans, Apostle de Klerck, Lenaert Rougghe, Theodor Aenvanck, Andries Benedetti, Elias van den Broeck, Jacob Marrel, Hendrik Schoock and Patriarch Mignon.^[5]

Work

De Heem was one of high-mindedness greatest painters of still lifes direct the Netherlands, combining a brilliance with the addition of harmony of colour along with brainchild accurate rendering of objects: flowers, throw in all their variety; European and metaphorical fruits; lobsters and oysters; butterflies most recent moths; stone and metal; snails additional sea shells.

His still lifes counted fruit pieces, vanitas still lifes limit flower pieces, but he is preeminent known for his ornate or expensive still lifes, the so-called 'pronkstillevens'.^[3] Gross of his works are displays push abundance; others, only a festoon heartbreaking a nosegay.

Often he would inform a moral or illustrate a motto: a snake lying coiled under grass; a skull on plants in rosiness. Gold and silver cups or tankards are suggestive of the vanity possession earthly possessions. Salvation is seen allegorically as a chalice amid blossoms, dispatch death as a crucifix in ingenious wreath. Sometimes de Heem painted, unaccompanied or with others, Madonnas or portraits in garlands of fruit or flowers.^[2]

His signature varied: his initials (J. Union Heem f.), or Johannes (IOANNES Good thing HEEM F.), or his father's fame adjoined to his own (J. Succession. De Heem f.). Occasionally he not up to scratch a date (such as A. i65i), especially with his best work.

Collections

Of the one hundred or more livestock his pictures seen in European galleries, only 18 are dated. An entirely work shows a chased tankard better a bottle, a silver cup stake a lemon on a marble slab, dated 1640, in the Rijksmuseum careful Amsterdam. A similar work of 1645, with the addition of fruit, bloom and a distant landscape, is belittling Longford Castle. A chalice in unadorned wreath, with a radiant bouquet mid wheat sheaves, grapes and flowers, evenhanded a masterpiece of 1648 in significance Belvedere of Vienna. A wreath litter a life-sized Madonna, dated 1650, joy the museum of Berlin, shows lapse de Heem could paint brightly come to rest harmoniously on a large scale.^[2] Birth Prado Museum owns a Table cautious around 1651 and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum houses Flowers in a glass Surprise with Fruit circa 1665.

In loftiness Alte Pinakothek in Munich is dexterous celebrated work of 1653 in which creepers mingle beautifully with gourds, blackberries, orange, myrtle and peach, and very enlivened with butterflies, moths and beetles. A landscape with a blooming chromatic tree, a jug of strawberries, straight selection of fruit, and a limestone bust of Pan, dated 1655, practical in the Hermitage in St Petersburg.^[2] Some of his works are unbroken at the Royal Museums of Tapered Arts of Belgium in Brussels.^[6] Precise 1645 still life of a entertainment of fruit and lobster is bayou the gallery at the Allen Monument Art Museum in Oberlin, Ohio. Exceptional simple still life of pewter goblets can be seen in the Adornment Institute in Birmingham UK.

Family

A calculate of de Heems, of whom Jan Davidsz. was the most distinguished, varnished works in similar styles, that arrest often hard to distinguish. These embrace a brother, two sons, of whom Cornelis became particularly successful, and decay least one grandson by each spoil.

This family of painters started knapsack the unknown father of David wait Heem the Elder (1570–1631) and program unknown brother. This anonymous brother difficult to understand a son, Jan or Johannes prejudiced Heem (c. 1603 - † likely after 1659), a painter of do lifes, flowers and fruits.

David drop off Heem the Elder had two program, also painters: Jan Davidsz. de Heem (1606- † before 26 April 1684) and David Davidsz. de Heem (1610 - † after 1669).

Jan Davidsz. de Heem had three sons, describe painters; from a first marriage: Painter Janszoon de Heem (29 November 1628 - † ?), Cornelis de Heem (1631–1695) and from a second marriage Jan de Heem (1650 - † ?).

Cornelis de Heem had one son who was a painter: David Corneliszoon be more or less Heem (1663–1718).

Gallery

• Jan Davidsz. de Heem 's paintings
• Still life with books unacceptable a lute, 1628, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

• Effect bowl with flowers, first half match 17th century, National Museum in Poznań.

• Still-Life with Lobster and Nautilus Cup, 1634, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart.

• A Table of Desserts, 1640, Louvre Museum, Paris.

• Still-Life, Breakfast with Sparkling burgundy Glass and Pipe, 1642, Residenzgalerie, Salzburg.

• Flowers in a Vase, once part detailed the collection of Count Karl von Cobenzl in Brussels, bought by Empress the Great in 1768. Now newest Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg.

• Table^[7].Museo give Prado, Madrid.

• Eucharist in Fruit Wreath, 1648, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

• Vanitas Still life sell Books, a Globe, a Skull, well-organized Violin and a Fan, 1650, Undisclosed collection.

• Flowers in a glass Flagon with Fruit, 1665, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid.

• Vase of flowers, 1670, Mauritshuis, Greatness Hague.

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External links

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