Jan Weenix
Jan Weenix (* 1642 in Amsterdam ; † September 20, 1719 there ) was a Dutch painter. Jan Weenix didn't know exactly how old he was. When he married in Amsterdam in 1679, he claimed he was thirty.
Life
Jan Weenix was the son and pupil of the painter Jan Baptist Weenix , who lived in Utrecht and Vleuten , traveled to Italy and mainly painted pictures from Italian folk life, but also still lifes and chicken farms. Pope Innocent X , among others, bought his paintings . When he returned four years later to fetch his wife Josina, he stayed because of her, a daughter of Gillis Claesz. de Hondecoeter , in Amsterdam. The family moved to Utrecht when his brother-in-law Gijsbert de Hondecoeter, who was also a painter, died. Jan Weenix started his apprenticeship with his cousin Melchior de Hondecoeter .
At first he painted in the manner of his father, pictures from the Roman Campagna and seaports with staffage and portraits. Then he turned to still life hunting , depicting dead game (hares, deer, wild boars, partridges, etc.), sometimes with hunters and dogs and mostly with a rich landscape background. The brushwork of his works is extremely delicate and soft; the color is shiny and deep. Pictures of him can be found in almost all major galleries.
In 1697 he painted a portrait of Tsar Peter the Great . During this time, five enormous wall-covering oil paintings , allegories of the five senses for a house on the Nieuwe Herengracht in Amsterdam, were commissioned by Jacob Henriques de Granada, a Spanish merchant from Surinam. Bought by William Randolph Hearst in 1921 , the pictures were sent to California. Nowadays two can be seen in the foyer of The Carlyle hotel in Manhattan (New York), a landscape with hunters and dead game and the allegory of the sense of smell, represented by a hunting dog. It is in the National Galleries of Scotland in Edinburgh , the fourth painting is in the possession of the Allen Memorial Art Museum in Oberlin, Ohio . The fifth mural is lost.
From 1702 to 1712 Weenix worked as court painter for the Palatine Elector Johann Wilhelm . Among other things, he created twelve large-format paintings for his Bensberg Castle . He worked in Amsterdam and, like Adriaen van der Werff and Rachel Ruysch , occasionally traveled to Düsseldorf. From the holdings of the Düsseldorf gallery , two still lifes painted between 1712 and 1714 and the paintings from Bensberg Castle came into the possession of the Alte Pinakothek in Munich.
Selection of works
- Flowers and peacock near a fountain , canvas, 178 × 166 cm
- The Prodigal Son , 1668, canvas, 111 × 99 cm, Residenzgalerie Salzburg
- Hares and pheasants at a spring , canvas, 158 × 211 cm
- Hunting still life , 1671, canvas, 109 × 88 cm
- Hunting cycle: Still life in front of a Diana statue , 1712, canvas, 346 × 206 cm, Alte Pinakothek Munich
- Hunting cycle: Hunting still life in front of a landscape with Bensberg Castle , 1712, canvas, 345 × 562 cm, Alte Pinakothek Munich
- Hunting cycle: Schweinsjagd , 1712, canvas, 346 × 214 cm
- Sleeping girl , 1665, wood, 45 × 35 cm
- Animals, Hunting Equipment and Hunters , 1702, canvas
- Outdoor conversation , canvas, 113 × 99 cm
literature
- Anke A. Van Wagenberg-Ter Hoeven: Jan Baptist Weenix en Jan Weenix. The Paintings . Waanders Uitgevers, 2 volumes, Zwolle 2018, ISBN 9789462621596
- Renate Trnek: The Dutch paintings of the 17th century in the picture gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna . Böhlau Verlag, Vienna, Cologne, Weimar 1992, ISBN 3-205-05408-3 , p. 410 ff.
Individual evidence
- ^ Friedrich Schaarschmidt: On the history of Düsseldorf art, especially in the XIX. Century . Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia, Düsseldorf 1902, p. 15 ( digitized version )
- ↑ Figure online
- ↑ Figure [1] online
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weenix, Jan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1642 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Amsterdam |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 20, 1719 |
| Place of death | Amsterdam |