Aelbert van Ouwater

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Aelbert van Ouwater: The raising of Lazarus, Berlin Gemäldegalerie

Aelbert van Ouwater , also Albert van Ouwater , (* around 1415 probably in Oudewater near Gouda , † around 1475 in Haarlem ) was a Dutch painter .

Life

Not much historical data has been secured about Aelbert van Ouwater. It is believed that he was a student of Jan van Eyck. Most of the information is contained in the signboard by Carel van Mander , who portrays him as an artist who was particularly valued for his landscapes. He also seems to have painted a number of religious pictures, one of which can be identified by van Mander's description. This is probably a resurrection of Lazarus painted between 1450 and 1460 , which is in the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin and to this day represents the only largely undisputed painting by the master.

Nothing is known about Ouwater's training. However, art history assumes that he came into contact with the art of Petrus Christ , Rogier van der Weyden , Dieric Bouts and Jan van Eyck , (whose pupil he may have been) during a stay in the southern Netherlands . Based on the Berlin image, Dieric Bouts in particular seems to have influenced him, whose figurative typification, whose movement patterns and costumes are very similar to those on the Berlin Lazarus. In addition, Ouwater proves to be an excellent colorist, who mastered the color palette down to the finest nuances and was also correct in perspective. He was the teacher of Geertgen tot Sint Jans .

In many cases, art history has tried to identify previously unknown painters with Ouwater. These include the Master of the Tiburtine Sibyl , the Master of Van Eyck's Miniatures (to whom one ascribes early landscape paintings in the Turin-Milan prayer book) and the Master of Saints . All of these attempts at identification found little approval in art history or have long since been refuted. Attempts to ascribe further works to Ouwater based on the Berlin picture are not much more successful. Only a head fragment in the Metropolitan Museum in New York , which resembles a head on the Berlin Lazarus table , seems to be close to him.

Works

  • Authentic work

Berlin, Gemäldegalerie

The raising of Lazarus. around 1450 - 1460
Oil on panel, 122 × 92 cm, Inv .: 532 A
  • Other attributed works

Berlin, Gemäldegalerie

Christ on the cross.
Oil on canvas (transferred from wood), 43 × 26 cm, inv .: 525 F - Is generally attributed to a successor to Jan van Eyck, but has also been suggested as a possible autograph work by Jan van Eyck, Hubert van Eyck or Aelbert Ouwater.

Budapest, Szépmüvészeti Múzeum

Christ carrying the cross.
Oil on wood, 97.5 × 129.5 cm, inv .: 2531 - copy based on a lost work by Jan van Eyck, whose creator, among others, Aelbert Ouwater was suggested

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Head of a benefactor.
Fragment - oil on panel, 9.8 × 8.9 cm, inv .: 17.190.22 - attributed to Aelbert Ouwater due to its great resemblance to a head on the Berlin Lazarus tablet

Whereabouts unknown

The resurrection of Christ.
There is an old photograph of the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg (from 1906 to 1908) on which the picture is depicted as a work by Aelbert van Ouwater without information on the inventory number and size
Saint Peter enthroned.
Attributed - oil (?) On wood, 30 × 19.6 cm - was in the collection Stein (Cologne) from 1862 and was shown on loan from Ms. Stein as Hubert van Eyck in a Cologne exhibition in 1876, in 1904 in the Freifrau von Heyl collection and exhibited in Düsseldorf as the successor to Jan van Eyck, has since disappeared
Christ on the cross.
Oil (?) On wood, approx. 39 × 26 cm - Was on loan from the Haxthausens Collection in the Wallrafianum in Cologne until 1833, has been lost since then, is kept in the Historical Archives of the City of Cologne as a work of the Ouwater School

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personal data
SURNAME Ouwater, Aelbert van
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ouwater, Albert van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch painter
DATE OF BIRTH around 1415
PLACE OF BIRTH Oudewater near Gouda
DATE OF DEATH around 1475
Place of death Haarlem