Aert van der Neer

Landscape with a Windmill, oil on panel, 1647–49, exhibited in the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg .

Winter landscape in the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum , Braunschweig

Aert van der Neer (also Aart or Arthur van der Neer ; * 1603 or 1604 in Gorinchem ; † 9. November 1677 in Amsterdam ) was a Dutch landscape painter of the Baroque . His specialties were landscapes in winter and at night.

Life

Verifiably since 1629 in Amsterdam, registered as Aert Igerom van der Meer, he worked as a painter. Little is known about his training; presumably it took place at Camphuysen in Gorkum , since he had married his sister Elisabeth in 1629. The couple had at least six children: Grietje (1629), Eglon (1635?), Cornelia (1642), Elisabeth (1645), Pieter (1648), and Alida (1650). It is not known where he was in the 1930s. Between 1659 and 1662 he was an innkeeper in the Kalverstraat and a wine merchant, but went bankrupt.

Misunderstood during his lifetime, he died completely impoverished. Today he is seen as one of the most important landscape painters of his time. His son Eglon van der Neer (approx. 1635–1703) was a court painter to the Electorate of the Palatinate in Düsseldorf .

Van der Neer's pictures are exhibited today in the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg , in the Wallace Collection , in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and in the National Gallery in London .

literature

• Joseph Eduard Wessely :  Aert van der Neer . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1886, p. 365.
• Fredo Bachmann: The landscapes of Aert van der Neer . Degener Verlag, Neustadt an der Aisch 1966.
• Brigitte Riese (Hrsg.): Seemanns Lexikon der Kunst . 3rd edition Seemann, Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-86502-018-5 .

Web links

Commons : Aert van der Neer  - Collection of Images