Adriaan Pit

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Adriaan Pit, 1880 portrayed by Marinus van der Maarel

Adriaan Pit , also Aart Pit (born April 25, 1860 in The Hague , † November 24, 1944 in Nijmegen ), was a Dutch art historian , museum director and author.

Life

Adriaan Pit, son of the lawyer August Nicolaas Marinus Pit (1822–1880) and his wife Elizabeth Jacoba Mazel (1829–1901), spent his youth in The Hague. He had an older brother (Jan (1858-1928)) and a younger sister (Nanny (1861-1945)). At the Haganum High School in The Hague , he became friends with Philippe Zilcken (1857–1930) and Marinus van der Maarel (1857–1921) until 1879. While studying law in Leiden he took a few exams, but was more involved in student associations and wrote for the student weekly Vox Studiosorum . In 1883 he toured Algeria with Zilcken . In 1886 Adriaan Pit broke off his law studies, went to the Paris École du Louvre and studied there with Louis Courajod (1841-1896). During the Parisian years he wrote articles for Dutch magazines - for example for the Amsterdam literary magazine De Gids and for Dagblad van Zuid-Holland en 's Gravenhage . From his dissertation L'influence des Pays-Bas sur les arts en Europe , defended in 1891, some chapters were published in the Revue de l'art chrétien in 1890, 1891 and 1892 . Adriaan Pit's first book Les origines de l'art hollandais was published in 1894. Returned to the Netherlands in the same year, in 1896 he became deputy director of the Nederlandsch Museum voor Geschiedenis en Kunst , which had been housed in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam since 1887 . In 1898 he became director of the Nederlandsch Museum and worked on catalogs with Willem Vogelsang . Some questions about the synaesthetic arrangement of the art objects in the museum, which was overemphasized for Pit's taste , led to sometimes violent arguments with the architect Pierre Cuypers and his adviser, the monument conservator and politician Victor de Stuers (1843–1916).

In 1909 Adriaan Pit was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Utrecht in the subject of Dutch literature for his literary work on applied arts .

In 1917 Adriaan Pit withdrew from the museum administration - Frederik Schmidt Degener (1881–1941) continued his work from 1922 on - and initially continued the day's work in the Rembrandt Association . After his release from the Nederlandsch Museum voor Geschiedenis en Kunst , he moved to the North Holland artist colony of Laren . Many of his friends lived and worked there. He wrote books and art-historical articles - influenced by Gerard Bolland , among others, philosophically and stylistically - for the decorative arts magazine, for example . He wrote entries on Dutch artists for Thieme-Becker .

Carolina Lea de Haan lived in his Laren neighborhood , with whom he had long-standing platonic love. He had met the writer in her youth at meetings of Amsterdam writers in the Museum Willet-Holthuysen in the Herengracht . In 1920 she nursed him after a serious operation. In the same year on July 20, Adriaan Pit married the divorced woman who had two children. The first few years of marriage were happy. In 1926 Adriaan Pit retired. In 1928 he published his book Aesthetic Ontwikkeling . In the same year his wife became seriously ill and had to spend her final years in hospitals. After her death in 1932 Adriaan Pit moved back to The Hague. In 1940 he published his book Over het bewustzijn . He was evacuated during the war in 1943 and spent the last year of his life in Nijmegen.

Fonts (selection)

  • 1894 - Les origines de l'art hollandais
  • 1912 - Het logische in de ontwikkeling der Beeldende arts
  • 1922 - thinking en beelden
  • 1928 - Aesthetic ontwikkeling
  • 1940 - Over het bewustzijn

literature

Web links

Commons : Adriaan Pit  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 's Gravenhage = The Hague
  2. ↑ The Influence of the Kingdom of the Netherlands on Art in Europe
  3. ↑ Revue de l'art chrétien ( Journal of Christian Art ) in the Internet Archive
  4. ↑ Origins of Dutch art
  5. ^ Dutch Museum of History and Art
  6. ↑ = Association of Dutch Art Lovers
  7. ↑ The Aesthetic Development
  8. ↑ About consciousness
personal data
SURNAME Pit, Adriaan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pit, Aart
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch art historian and museum director
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH The hague
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 1944
Place of death Nijmegen