David Teniers the Younger

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Portrait of David Teniers by Philip Fruytiers

David Teniers (baptized December 15, 1610 in Antwerp , † April 25, 1690 in Brussels ) was a Flemish painter , draftsman and curator . He was an extremely versatile artist known for his extensive production. He was a innovator in a variety of genres such as history painting , genre painting , landscape, portrait, and still life. He is best remembered today as the leading Flemish genre painter of his time. Teniers is particularly known for the development of the peasant genre, the bar scene, pictures of art collections and scenes with alchemists and doctors. He founded the Antwerp Academy in 1664 .

Life

Teniers most important teacher was his father, David Teniers the elder . He was later influenced by Peter Paul Rubens and Adriaen Brouwer . In 1633 he was accepted into the Guild of St. Luke in Antwerp, and in 1645 he was dean of the guild.

Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in his gallery in Brussels , around 1650, Kunsthistorisches Museum , Vienna - Under the archduke's entourage, his court painter David Teniers himself is depicted, the explanatory gesticulating person on the far right.

In 1637 he married Anna Brueghel, a daughter of Jan Brueghel the Elder. Ä. ; Best man was Rubens. Teniers' son of the same name, David Teniers III. (* July 10, 1638; † February 11, 1685) did not gain the fame of his father. In his work as a tapestry painter, his importance lies in the field of decorative tapestry .

Teniers was appointed court painter to Brussels in 1651 . As such, he was in charge of the art collection of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm . For this he created the “ Theatrum pictorium ” in 1660 , the first ever illustrated catalog of a painting collection.

In 1664 he founded the Antwerp Academy , where young artists were trained in drawing and sculpture. It was hoped that the academy could help revive Flemish art, which had seen a sharp decline after the deaths of leading Flemish artists Rubens and Anthony van Dyck.

David Teniers the Elder J. was very productive in the almost 80 years of his life, hundreds of his works have been preserved, they hang in almost every well-known picture gallery. His genre scenes were extremely popular with collectors of the time.

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Teniers created, among other things, rural pub scenes with drinkers, smokers and card players in addition to motifs such as folk festivals, soldiers ' guard rooms , alchemists - and witches' kitchens - a total of around 800 pictures. The Temptations of St. Anthony form a large part of his oeuvre , of which an estimated 100 to 200 versions exist - attributed to Teniers and his students.

Teniers is the most prolific of the Flemish peasant painters, who, however, differed from his fellow artists in a more moderate, less coarse and relaxed view of peasant pleasures. His pictures are characterized by cozy humor, a rich, well-thought-out composition, a bright, fresh color that sometimes touches the colorful, by witty characteristics and fresh liveliness of the presentation. In addition to peasant dances, village fair fairs, brawls and tavern scenes, he painted genre-like scenes from the Bible, fantastic scenes such as the temptation of St. Anthony, alchemists in their laboratories, guard rooms with soldiers, animal pieces (monkeys, cats, etc.) that parody people's activities. ), Landscapes with figures and the like. Initially painting in a strong, brownish tone, in his heyday he adopted a warm gold tone, which has been replaced by a fine silver tone since around 1650.

  • Old woman in an armchair (around 1650)

  • Old Man in an Armchair (around 1650)

Works (excerpt)

Fair in the inn at the half moon (1641)
Smokers in the tavern (1659)
  • The inn to the angel . Hermitage, St. Petersburg.
  • The smoker . Hermitage, St. Petersburg.
  • The wedding feast . Hermitage St. Petersburg
  • The trick track players . Museo del Prado , Madrid
  • The amusement in the inn courtyard . Museo des Prado. Madrid
  • Twelve pictures from Tasso's “Liberated Jerusalem” . Museo des Prado. Madrid
  • Monkey and cat scenes . Museo des Prado, Madrid
  • The prodigal son among prostitutes . Louvre , Paris
  • The denial of Peter . Louvre, Paris
  • Archduke Leopold Wilhelm's heron hunt . Louvre, Paris
  • The smoker . Louvre, Paris
  • The dance in the tavern . Alte Pinakothek , Munich
  • The peasant wedding . Alte Pinakothek, Munich
  • The guardroom . Oil on canvas, 66.5 × 83.5 cm. Alte Pinakothek, Munich
  • Boy with flute . Oil on panel, 17 × 12.5 cm. Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna
  • Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in his gallery in Brussels . Oil on canvas, 123 × 163 cm, Kunsthistorisches Musen, Vienna
The alchemist
  • The Brussels bird shooting . Oil on canvas, 172 × 247 cm, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
  • Abraham's Thanksgiving Offering . Oil on canvas, 132 × 103 cm, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
  • Peasant Wedding (Bauernfreud) , 1648, oil on canvas, 76.5 × 114 cm, Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna
  • Attack on a village (peasant suffering) , 1648, oil on canvas, 77 × 114 cm, Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna
  • Antonio of Moncada defeats Bernardo Cabrera . Oil on copper, 57 × 70 cm. Art dealer Xaver Scheidwimmer, Munich
  • Dutch Proverbs , 1645–1647, oil on canvas, 120 × 207 cm, Bez.uM: DAVID TENIERS FEC Grantham, Belvoir Castle , Lent by the Trustees of His Grace the Duke of Rutland

literature

Web links

Commons : David Teniers (II)  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helge Siefert: To the glory of the hero. History and genre painting of the 17th and 18th centuries. Munich 1993, 194
  2. ↑ Klaus Bußmann , Heinz Schilling : 1648 - War and Peace in Europe. Catalog volume and two text volumes, Münster 1998 [Documentation of the Council of Europe exhibition on the 350th anniversary of the Peace of Westphalia in Münster and Osnabrück.] Münster / Osnabrück 1998, ISBN 3-88789-127-9 , p. 132
personal data
SURNAME Teniers, David the Younger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Teniers, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Flemish painter
DATE OF BIRTH baptized December 15, 1610
PLACE OF BIRTH Antwerp
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 1690
Place of death Brussels