Albert August Plasschaert
Albert August Plasschaert (born October 10, 1866 in Delft ; died April 20, 1941 in Hilversum ) was a Dutch draftsman, etcher and glass painter.
Life
Plasschaert's father was a drawing teacher at the high school in Delft. He studied mechanical engineering at the Polytechnic in Delft from 1883 to 1890 and then worked as a model fitter, technical draftsman and engineer in Veere .
In 1894 he met the German art student Franz Melchers (1868–1944) and they set up a joint studio to work with glass painting. Melchers, however, moved on on his Grand Tour as early as 1886 , while Plasschaert, constantly suffering from financial difficulties, had to take care of wage labor.
From 1899 he worked in Dordrecht as a draftsman in the Koninklijke Nederlandsche Glasfabriek JJBJ Bouvy . In 1908 he resigned and moved to the art dealer Oldenzeel in Rotterdam , who had already traded in works by Vincent van Gogh and now also traded with the painters of Futurism and Wassily Kandinsky . When the company closed in 1913, Plasschaert went back to work as a glass painter. In 1913 in Berlin , Herwarth Walden showed two glass paintings by Plasschaert, Exhilarating Wind Live and Eli eli lama sabachtani , both of which had a religious meaning, in the First German Autumn Salon in Berlin .
From 1915 he lived in Dordrecht and turned more to the art of drawing. He developed a cubist-expressive style and found students. Plasschaert turned to occultism, found followers in it and moved to the Hague with them in 1917 . He finally came to Hilversum via Weesp in 1925 . With his followers he published various occult writings, and he subordinated his drawing art to mysticism. In the 1930s, participation in his occult ventures gradually declined.
After 1937, Plasschaert was shown again for the first time in 1973 in an exhibition on the "Beginning of Abstract Painting in the Netherlands 1918 to 1925". A retrospective was held in Utrecht in 1989 at the Centraal Museum Utrecht . Art criticism has a hard time with his painting style, known as “psychic expressionism”.
cousin
In Dutch biographical literature, the difference to his cousin, the art critic Albert Charles Auguste Plasschaert (1874 to 1941) was not made clear until 1988 through the work of Geurt Imanse, who worked as a librarian at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.
literature
- Plasschaert, Albert A. In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 27 : Piermaria – Ramsdell . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1933, p. 138 .
- Plasschaert, Albert A. , in: Emmanuel Benezit [Ed.]; Jacques Busse [arr.]: Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays. Volume 11. 4th edition. Paris: Gründ, 1999, p. 53.
- Geurt Imanse: Albert August Plasschaert (1866–1941). Rijksdienst Beeldende Kunst, The Hague 1988, ISBN 90-12-05915-1 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Albert August Plasschaert in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Albert August Plasschaert , biografischportaal.nl
- Albert August Plasschaert , at rkd (Dutch)
- Jan Jaap Heij: Albert August Plasschaert , in: Jan Jaap Heij: Vernieuwing & bezinning: Nederlandse beeldende kunst en kunstnijverheid approx. 1885–1935 uit de collectie van het Drents Museum. Waanders, Zwolle 2004, PDF, at: Vereniging Vrienden Nieuwe Kunst 1900 (VVNK)
Individual evidence
- ^ First German Autumn Salon. Berlin 1913. Berlin: The Storm, 1913, p. 27.
- ^ Albert August Plasschaert , at Centraal Museum Utrecht.
- ↑ Hans Renders: Albert August Plasschaert 1866-1941 , review, at bol.com.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Plasschaert, Albert August |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Plasschaert, Albert A. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch painter and printmaker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 10, 1866 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Delft |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 20, 1941 |
| Place of death | Hilversum |