Abraham Jansz. Begey

Abraham Jansz. Begeyn , also Abraham Bega (born 1637 in Leiden ; died on June 11, 1697 in Berlin ) was a Dutch etcher, still life , landscape and vedute painter who worked in Leiden, Amsterdam and The Hague , including Italy, England and toured the Mark Brandenburg . He was the court painter of Elector Friedrich III. Appointed to Berlin. He is known with different signatures including "ABegeijn" or "ABegein" .

Act

Quarry near Naples 1660

Elector Friedrich III. on the hunt on the Havel

Begeyn was a member of the Lucasgilde in Leiden from April 24, 1655 to 1667. During his travels during this time, he visited, among other things, the area around Naples (around 1659) and made some paintings there, for example in 1660 of a quarry that is exhibited in the Mauritshuis . In 1672 he moved to Amsterdam and took a trip to London with his wife Margaretha (nee van Zyl) . From 1681 he worked in The Hague, where he was mainly concerned with decorating interiors. On December 18, 1683 he became a member of the Confrérie Pictura . In 1688 he designed a gate of honor in Berlin for the funeral of the Great Elector Friedrich Wilhelm , who died on May 9, 1688. Thereupon he was appointed court painter to the new Elector Friedrich III on October 22, 1688. appointed and endowed with an annual salary of 500 Thalers . Here he made a few sketches with scenes from the life of the Great Elector and Frederick, which served as templates for the production of large tapestries or tapestries by Pierre I Mercier . One of the originals or wallpapers from Begeyn was the siege of Stettin by the Great Elector, which was in the Hohenzollern Museum with five others .

At the behest of the elector, he undertook a trip through the Mark Brandenburg in 1696 to make drawings of the castles and views of the cities of Bielefeld , Cleve, Halberstadt , Minden and Wesel . These should serve to decorate the princely palaces. He created a view of a forest landscape near Kleve (Kupferstichkabinett Braunschweig ) and in 1697 a view of the Regenstein Fortress ( British Museum in London). Shortly after his return to Berlin, he died of a stroke. Michiel Carrée was his successor at court . One of his works can be seen in the Grunewald hunting lodge .

style

Begeyn's early pictures are reminiscent of Jan Asselijn or Nicolaes Pietersz. Berchem , his port views resemble the works of Jan Baptist Weenix or Johann Lingelbach , while his mountainous landscapes are reminiscent of Allart van Everdingen . In particular, his knowledge of perspective has been praised. The son of Pr. Romburch is named as his pupil on December 29, 1685 in The Hague.

Paintings (selection)

Landscape with travelers

• A sack of Amsterdam
• Foreground study with large-leaved plants Berlin
• Thistle Plants Bordeaux 1653.
• Landscape with thistle leaves butterflies and birds Braunschweig
• Neapolitan coast Brussels 1659.
• 3 goats under a tree Dresden
• Landscape with traveler Warsaw
• Quarry 1660.
• Herd of cattle passing a ford , hunting party on the seashore and the Italian port of Copenhagen
• View of Trieste Koll. M. Tulloch, London.
• Landscape with goats Paris (A. Bega)
• Italian Landscape and Grisaille Hermitage Museum (Saint Petersburg)
• Rock grotto with shepherds and animals Vienna.
• Hagar with the angel Confrérie Pictura, the only known picture with a biblical scene

In addition, there were works that were engraved from his pictures, such as the pleasure palace of the Prince of Orange, seen from a bird's eye view, and Begeyn's hand drawings and etchings are kept in several museums.

literature

• Paul Seidel: The Relationship of the Great Elector to Dutch Art . In: Yearbook of the Royal Prussian Art Collections (=  official reports from the Royal Art Collections . Volume 11 ). Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, Berlin 1880, p. 134 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Herman Riegel: Abraham Cornelisz Begeyn . In: Contributions to Dutch art history . Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, Berlin 1882, p. 389–394 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
• CR Nyblom: Begeyn, Abraham Jansz. In: Bernhard Meijer (Ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 2 : Armatoler – Bergsund . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1904, Sp. 1204 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
• Alfred von Wurzbach: Begeijn, Abraham Cornelisz Begeijn also Bega . In: Dutch Artist Lexicon - with more than 3000 monograms . Halm and Goldmann, Vienna 1906, p. 74 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Ernst Wilhelm Moes : Begeyn, Abraham Jansz. In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 3 : Bassano – Bickham . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1909, p. 188 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Annemarie Stefes: Abraham Jansz. Begey . In: Dutch drawings 1450–1800: panels . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar 2011, ISBN 978-3-412-20658-1 , p. 92–95 ( books.google.de - reading sample, description of some works).

Web links

Commons : Abraham Jansz. Begeyn  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Begeyn, Abraham Jansz. Hamburger Kunsthalle (overview of works, drawings)
• Works by Abraham Jansz. Beginning in the WorldCat bibliographic database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Abraham Jansz. Begey. biografischportaal.nl, accessed on October 12, 2018 (Dutch). 
2. ^ Hamburger Kunsthalle (ed.): Catalog of the Old Masters . Lütcke & Wulff, Hamburg 1918, p. 6 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
3. ^ Eduard Flechsig: Brief directory of the painting collection in the Herzogl. Braunschweig Museum . Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig 1910, p. 57 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).