Abraham van Beijeren
Abraham Hendrickz van Beijeren or van Beyeren (* about 1620 /21 in The Hague ; † 1690 in Overschie ) was a Dutch painter of still life and sea-pieces of the Baroque .
Life
The artist, little known during his lifetime, was the son of a glazier. He stayed in Leiden from 1638–39 . In 1640 he was accepted into the Guild of St. Luke in The Hague. Since he, like the local painter Pieter de Putter (1605–1659), who was born there, specialized in still lifes with fish, it is assumed that he was trained by this, but this has not yet been proven. Van Beijeren's presence in The Hague is attested in 1636 and from 1639 to 1657, later he worked in Delft (1657–63), then again in The Hague (1663–69), then in Amsterdam (1669–74), in Alkmaar (1674 ) as well as in Gouda (1675), and finally in Overschie near Rotterdam (from 1677).
Abraham van Beijeren had married Emmerintia Stercke († 1646) in Leiden in 1638, who gave him three children. Widowed at an early age, he was second married to Anna in 1647, the daughter of the busy portrait painter Christian Van den Queborn (around 1515–1578).
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Van Beijeren is considered an important still life painter, especially still lifes with fish, but was also a skilled painter of seascapes. He signed his paintings with the monogram AVB, but only rarely dated them, so that the dating of his works sometimes still raises questions. Although there is a certain variety of themes - including flowers, fruits, dead birds and vanitas still lifes - van Beijeren's preferred motifs remained the dead fish and its accumulation, as well as magnificently constructed compositions of banquet tables with precious table vessels. His work is characterized by a warm color scheme in which the brown tones predominate. Another feature is the virtuoso play with shapes and light, which is expressed in shimmering gold, silver, glass and porcelain surfaces, with the light source usually remaining hidden.
Factory selection
- 1650–70 magnificent still life , Karlsruhe, State Art Gallery
- 1652/53: Large still life with lobster , Munich, Alte Pinakothek
- 1655: Still Life , Worcester Art Museum
- 1655: Fishmonger's bank, Lower Saxony State Museum, Hanover
- 1655-: Banquet still life , The Hague, Mauritshuis
- 1665: Still life , Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum
- 1666: Still life with fish , Ghent
- 1667: Still Life with a Mouse , Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- 1667: Banquet Still Life , Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- ???: The breakfast , Moscow, Pushkin Museum
- ???: Magnificent still life with a nautilus goblet and lobster , Zurich
- ???: Still Life , Antwerp, Royal Museum of Fine Arts
- ???: Still life with fish , Dresden, Old Masters Picture Gallery
- ???: A fish bank also still life with fish , Dresden, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister
- ???: Still life with fruits and lobsters , Leipzig, Museum of Fine Arts
literature
- Dictionnaire de la peinture flamande et hollandaise du Moyen Âge à nos jours . Larousse, Paris 1989, ISBN 2-03-740015-2 (French)
- Ingvar Bergström: Dutch Still Life Painting in the Seventeenth Century . T. Yoseloff, New York 1956
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dates of stay according to RKD artists (Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie), record number 7990 ( Memento of the original from April 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Beijeren, Abraham van |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Beijeren, Abraham Hendrickz van; Beyeren, Abraham van |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch baroque painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1620 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | The hague |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1690 |
| Place of death | Overschie |