Abraham van den Hecken

Abraham van den Hecken: Happy company in an inn

Abraham van den Hecken (last name also van den Hecke , van den Heck , van den Heckius or van Kerken , born between 1610 and 1620 in Antwerp ; died between 1655 and 1669 in Amsterdam or The Hague ) was a Dutch Baroque painter .

life and work

The exact dates of life of Abraham von der Hecken are not known. His father, Samuel van den Hecken (around 1595 – after 1637), was also a painter and his teacher. The sister Magdalena van der Hecken (life dates unknown) created several flower still lifes as a painter. Abraham van den Hecken grew up in Antwerp and moved to Amsterdam as a young man, where he married Catharina Lundens, the sister of the painter Gerrit Lundens , in 1635 . Abraham van den Hecken lived in Amsterdam until 1645, stayed in The Hague in 1647, then returned to Amsterdam and visited London in 1652. Subsequently, his stay in The Hague from 1653–1655 is documented; later his track is lost.

Van der Hecken initially created genre pictures depicting rural life. He then turned to religious motifs, but also created portraits of scientists and commissioned portraits. A landscape picture with hunting dogs by the painter is also known.

Works in public collections

• Portrait of Cornelis Jansz Meyer , Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
• The slaughtered beef , Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
• Wedding party , Museum of Fine Arts , Budapest
• Two hunting dogs , Hermitage , Saint Petersburg

literature

• Uta Römer: Hedges, Abraham van den . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 70, de Gruyter, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-023175-5 , p. 509.

Web links

Commons : Abraham van den Hecken  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Abraham van den Hecken. Biographical data and works in the Netherlands Institute for Art History (Dutch)