Albert Klomp

Albert Klomp (often also Albert Jansz. Klomp ; * around March 8 (baptized on March 11) 1625 in Amsterdam ; † no earlier than December 20, 1688 ibid) was a Dutch landscape and animal painter and draftsman .

Signature of Albert Klomp

Landscape with cows (oil on wood, Lázaro Galdiano Museum, Madrid)

Life

Albert Klomp was a son of the Amsterdam shoemaker Jan Alberts (* 1593) and his wife Trijnte born from Harlingen . Intjes (alias Ydes; * 1597). His parents married on July 17, 1621 in Amsterdam. Little is known about the life of Albert Klomp. He allegedly began painting in 1633 and was believed to have been a student of Pieter Codde . On April 19, 1657 he married the eldest daughter of the Amsterdam painter Guilliam du Gardijn (1596–1647) and his first wife, Jannetgen geb. IJsbrands (1597–1632), Maria du Gardijn (baptized August 11, 1620; buried January 2, 1688). The bride and groom were quite old for their time and remained childless. On June 16, 1663, the wife, who was five years older than him, appointed him as her heir. Klomp painted until his death.

Towards the evening of December 20, 1688, the widower "around 70 years old" left his house in Amsterdam and never came back. Despite an advertisement that was published on February 12, 1689 in the “Amsterdamsche Saturdagsche Courant” and which, by the way, was almost the only source of information about his life for a long time, it was not possible to clear up his fate. It was later suspected that he had a fatal accident on the day of his disappearance.

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Signature of Albert Klomp with the Latin word "fecit" (made)

Landscape with cattle

Klomp's paintings continued the tradition of Paulus Potter and Adriaen van de Velde as well as Karel Dujardin , but they always remained below the level of these models. Klomp usually painted small-format, sunny landscapes that were animated with animals. The landscapes are clearly recognizable as Dutch. Among the animals that can be seen as accessories, cows are the most common, Klomp also painted sheep and goats, and sometimes a shepherd can also be seen. Klomp's signed pictures only existed from 1657, which suggests that he developed his own distinct style late, which he was well aware of. This is probably why he did not sign the earlier works. This could be used by business-minded dealers by often providing such pictures with false signatures by Potter and spending them for his works. Klomp only rarely dated the signed paintings, so that it is impossible to reconstruct their chronological order.

All of Klomp's pictures are structured in a similar way. The high sky hangs over the flat landscape, which extends to the low horizon. The animals lie or stand in the foreground. A homestead can often be seen behind it between trees. Klomp used warm, pleasant colors. For his landscapes he always chose a time of day that enabled him to show his skills in dealing with light and shadow. His pictures are technically at a high level, but thematically they are monotonous and a bit bland in expression. That is why Klomp is counted among the small masters today.

In the 18th century, Louis Garreau and Jean Baptiste Lebrun made copperplate engravings based on his paintings. A number of his paintings are now scattered in many museums, some are also in private hands.

More famous works

Oil painting

• Landscape with Milkmaid and Cattle (oil on canvas, 27.5 × 35 cm, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam , Inv.SK-C-162)
• Landscape with Cattle (oil on canvas, 27 × 34 cm, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, SK-C-161)
• Pasture with cattle (oil on canvas, Instituut Collectie Nederland , Amsterdam)
• Cows in front of a homestead in the evening (oil on canvas, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten , Brussels)
• Annunciation to the Shepherds (oil on canvas, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels)
• Cows, sheep and goats in front of a scenic backdrop (oil on wood, Fitzwilliam Museum , Cambridge)
• Camp sheep and goats with sleeping shepherd (oil on panel, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge)
• Landscape with Cows (oil on canvas, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge)
• Cattle pasture by the river (oil on wood, Old Masters Picture Gallery , Dresden)
• Herd of cows near a village (oil on canvas, Städel Museum , Frankfurt am Main)
• Landscape with cows (1640, 61 × 94.5 cm, oil on panel , Lázaro Galdiano Museum , Madrid)
• Bull with a herd of sheep and goats (1663, Statens Museum for Kunst , Copenhagen)
• Landscape with an Animal Staffage (1663, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen)
• Large evening landscape with cattle (1686, Lower Saxony State Museum for Art and Cultural History , Oldenburg)
• Herd on the pasture ( State Museum Schwerin )
• Animals in front of a hut ( Swedish National Museum , Stockholm)
• Landscape with cows, sheep and a shepherd sitting on a tree (oil on canvas, 47 × 62 cm, private property)
• Village landscape with cattle and a milkmaid (oil on canvas, private property)

Further works can be found in Liège , Darmstadt , Emden , Gotha , Heidelberg , St. Petersburg , Riga , Rome (Wolkonski collection), Vienna and Niemes .

drawings

• A hunter washes his feet in a stream (chalk, Albertina , Vienna)
• Herd of cattle and sheep (1685, washed chalk, Albertina, Vienna)
• Bull, sheep and a rider, next to whom a farmer is walking (chalk wash, Albertina, Vienna)

Further works are u. a. in Brussels and London.

Copper engravings based on Klomp's drawings

• Landscape with Cattle and Sheep (Louis Garreau, Cabinet Le Brun.)

Remarks

1. ↑ Jansz. , full form Janszoon , is the patronymic ( Janssohn ).
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Ecartico
3. ↑ Almost all other sources mention the now outdated statement that he was born around 1618. The information about Klomp's lifetime in volume 16 of the ADB from 1882 is completely misleading.
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Ulrike B. Wegener: Klomp, Albert . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 80, de Gruyter, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-023185-4 , p. 507.
5. ↑ The information in the advertisement was imprecise; Klomp was only 63.
6. ^ AD De Vries Azn .: Biographical aanteekeningen ...
7. ^ ^{A b c} Alfred von Wurzbach: Dutch artist lexicon. Vol. 1, p. 294.
8. ↑ HS: Klomp (Clomp), Albert Jansz. In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 20 : Kaufmann – Knilling . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1927, p. 538 .
9. ↑ Sold on eBay.de in May 2016.
10. ↑ Sold at Christie's on December 8, 2008.
11. ↑ HS: Klomp (Clomp), Albert Jansz. In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 20 : Kaufmann – Knilling . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1927, p. 539 .

literature

• Ulrike B. Wegener: Klomp, Albert . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 80, de Gruyter, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-023185-4 , p. 507.
• Pieter Groenendijk (ed.): Beknopt biographical lexikon van Zuid- en Noord-Nederlandse schilders, graveurs, glasschilders, tapijtwevers et cetera van approx. 1350 dead approx. 1720. Primavera, Leiden / Utrecht 2008, p.
• Michael Bringmann (ed.): Masterpieces of the art of drawing from Rembrandt to Menzel. Collection Brandes Wessenberg-Galerie Konstanz, Braus im Wachter-Verlag, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-926318-72-4 , p.
• Christiane Stukenbrock: Dutch paintings of the 16th and 17th centuries. ed. from the Landesmuseum Mainz, Schmidt, Mainz 1997, p.?.
• Jurij I. Kuznecov (Ed.): Ermitage. Western European painting ( Ermitaž: Zapadnoevropejskaja živopis ). Vol. 2, Aurora, Leningrad 1981., pp.?.
• Walther Bernt (Ed.): The Dutch painters and draftsmen of the 17th century. Vol. 2, 4th revised edition, Brückmann, Munich 1980, p.
• Laurens J. Bol: Dutch painters of the 17th century close to the great masters. Landscapes and Still Life. Klinkhardt and Biermann, Braunschweig 1969, p. 230 (2nd edition, Munich: Klinkhardt and Biermann 1982).
• Friedrich WH Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcats 1450-1700. Vol. 9, Menno Hertzberger, Amsterdam 1953, p. 251.
• HS : Klomp (Clomp), Albert Jansz. In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 20 : Kaufmann – Knilling . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1927, p. 538-539 .
• Cornelis Hofstede de Groot : Descriptive and critical directory of the works of the most outstanding Dutch painters of the 17th century. Vol. 4 with the participation of Kurt Freise, Kurt Erasmus and Wilhelm Reinhold Valentiner, Paul Neff, F. Kleinberger, Esslingen, Paris 1911, p. 697.
• Alfred von Wurzbach: Dutch artist lexicon. Vol. 1, Halm and Goldmann, Vienna / Leipzig 1906, p. 294 ( digitized version ).
• AD de Vries Azn .: Biographical aanteekeningen concerning voornamelijk Amsterdamsche schilders, plaatsnijders, enz. en hunne related. In: Oud Holland. Nieuwe Beijdragen voor de Geschiedenis der Nederlandsche Kunst. Vol. 1, Amsterdam 1885, pp. 55-80 and 77.
• Christian Kramm: Geschiedenis van de Beelende Kunsten in de Nederlanden. Vol. 3, Amsterdam 1857-1864, p. 878.
• Abraham Jakob van der Aa: Clomp Aelbert of Aalbert Klomp. In: Biographical woordenboek der Nederlanden. Vol. 3, JJ van Brederode, Haarlem 1858, p. 481.

Web links

Commons : Albert Klomp  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Dutch Institute for Art History ( Dutch Institute for Art History Documentation (RKD) )
• Ecartico, University of Amsterdam