Adam Frans van der Meulen

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Adam Frans van der Meulen (baptized January 11, 1632 in Brussels , † October 15, 1690 in Paris ) was a Flemish battle, genre and landscape painter .

Adam Frans van der Meulen

life and work

The exact date of birth of the artist is unknown, but his baptism is recorded on January 11, 1632. Van der Meulen got to know battle painting from the court painter Pieter Snayers, who was already highly valued by the aristocracy during his lifetime , and became his pupil. On May 18, 1648 van der Meulen was registered in the Guild of St. Luke .

From 1664 the artist can be traced back to Paris , where he was promoted to court painter to King Louis XIV on the advice of Charles Lebrun . In 1681 he married a relative of his patron Lebrun, Marie de By, in his third marriage. In the same year van der Meulen became conseiller , then in 1686 premier conseiller of the Paris Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture .

While Adam Frans van der Meulen was a battle painter influenced by Pieter Snayers before he moved to Paris, in the service of the French king he portrayed the sieges and campaigns in which he took part in his entourage. He took part in nine trips, where he either directly or afterwards visited the scenes of the event and recorded them with drawings .

Van der Meulen also made numerous paintings of French castles, festive parades and hunts. The figures of Louis XIV and the Queen often appear on these small-figured compositions, but other figures also show some portraits . Van der Meulen also provided designs for tapestries and assisted Lebrun with such. However, the extensive tasks could not be mastered without a large and perfectly organized workshop. For his own paintings he employed numerous students, such as B. Jan van Huchtenburgh . The French battle painter and vedute painter Jean-Baptiste Martin was also one of his students and imitators .

Works (excerpt)

Louis XIV for the conquest of Besançon
  • Equestrian meeting between imperial and Swedes , 1654. Oil on canvas, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum , Vienna.
  • The Tournai camp , 1667. Oil on canvas, State Gallery, Schleissheim.
  • The conquest of Lille , 1667. Oil on canvas, Staatsgalerie, Schleissheim.
  • The conquest of Dole , 1668. Oil on canvas, Staatsgalerie, Schleissheim.
  • June 12, 1672 Louis XIV crossing the Rhine. Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
  • Louis XIV for the conquest of Besançon , 1674. Oil on canvas, Hermitage
  • The march in front of Dinant , 1675. Oil on canvas, Staatsgalerie, Schleissheim.
  • The camp in front of Cambrai , 1677. Oil on canvas, Staatsgalerie, Schleissheim.
  • The conquest of Besançon , 1690. Oil on canvas, Museum of the Besançon Period

literature

  • Walter F. Kalina: The Thirty Years War in the Fine Arts. Diploma thesis, University of Vienna, 2001.
  • Matthias Pfaffenbichler: The battle picture in the late 16th and 17th centuries. Dissertation, University of Vienna, 1987.
  • Ulrich Thieme (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present. Leipzig 1930.
  • Helge Siefert: To the glory of the hero. History and genre painting of the 17th and 18th centuries . Munich 1993
  • Giancarlo Sestieri: I pittori di battaglie. Maestri italiani e stranieri del XVII e XVIII secolo = Battle Painters. Italian and Foreign Masters of the XVII and XVIII centuries . DeLuca, Rome 1999, ISBN 88-8016-321-3 .

Web links

Commons : Adam Frans van der Meulen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Vollmer (ed.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present , Volume 24, Leipzig 1930, p. 159.
  2. ↑ Jane Turner (Ed.): The Dictionary of Art . London 1996, 28,898
  3. ↑ Helge Siefert: To the glory of the hero. History and genre painting of the 17th and 18th centuries . Munich 1993, pp. 160 f., 193
  4. ↑ Ulrich Thieme (Ed.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Leipzig 1930, XXIV, p. 450f.
  5. ↑ Hans Vollmer (ed.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present , Volume 24, Leipzig 1930, p. 159.
  6. ↑ Johann Christoph Allmayer-Beck : The Army History Museum Vienna. Hall I - From the beginnings of the standing army to the end of the 17th century , Salzburg 1982 p. 27
  7. ↑ Lobith
personal data
SURNAME Meulen, Adam Frans van der
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Flemish painter
DATE OF BIRTH baptized January 11, 1632
PLACE OF BIRTH Brussels
DATE OF DEATH October 15, 1690
Place of death Paris