Alexander Keirincx

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Forest landscape , approx. 1622, Schwerin State Museum
Forest interior with Saint Hubertus , approx. 1615–1635
Forest landscape with figures , staffage painted by Cornelis van Poelenburgh , ca.1630, Mauritshuis , The Hague, Netherlands
Large landscape with a raid , 1630–1639
Oak forest with hunting scenery , 1631, Staatsgalerie Neuburg
Hunters in a Forest , 16 ??, State Hermitage Museum (Small Hermitage), Saint Petersburg, Russia
Richmond Castle , Yorkshire , May – July 1639, Yale Center for British Art , New Haven, USA
Distant view of York , 1639, Tate Britain , London, United Kingdom
Falkland Palace and Howe of Fife , circa 1639, Scottish National Gallery , Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Seton Palace and the Forth - estuary ( Firth of Forth ), about 1639, Scottish National Gallery , Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Pontefract Castle , 1640 or 1641, Pontefract Museum , Pontefract, United Kingdom

Alexander Keirincx , including Keirinckx , Keirincks or Kerrincx , (born January 23, 1600 in Antwerp , † shortly before October 7, 1652 in Amsterdam ) was a Flemish Baroque painter who devoted himself to landscape painting in the Golden Age .

Life

Antwerp

Alexander Keirincx was born on January 23, 1600 to Matthijs Keirincx and Anna Mason in Antwerp. The Flemish Antwerp was then part of the occupied territory of the Spanish Netherlands . There he was apprenticed to the painter Abraham Govaerts (1589–1626), who had specialized in forest landscapes. In 1619 Keirincx joined the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke as a freelance painter . On June 18, 1622 he married Clara Mattheus (also Matheus , Mattheusen , Mattheussen or Matheussens ) in the Sint Jacobskerk ( St. Jacob's Church ) in Antwerp. The marriage of the two remained childless. They moved into a house on Vleminckfeld Street . In 1624 Aertus (also Artus ) Verhoeven became his apprentice. On November 9, 1924, Keirincx and his wives drew up a two-way will . Keirincx must have been in England in 1625 because there are said to exist two signed and dated drawings from the time showing views of London . Back in Antwerp, on February 14, 1626, he and his wife changed the will to the codicil , in which it was decreed that the siblings of the married couple outside the inheritance would be given 24 guilders .

Amsterdam

In estate directory of the estate of Abraham Govaerts the residence of Keirincx indicated 1629th At the time he was already living in the Amsterdam of the Republic of the Seven United Provinces , which had renounced Spanish rule. At the beginning of 1632 he stayed in Utrecht , but returned to Amsterdam in the same year. He kept in close contact with the Utrecht painter Cornelis van Poelenburgh . Some works were created in collaboration. He painted the landscape and Poelenburgh then the figures or the staffage . That wasn't unusual at the time. Many Flemish and Dutch painters worked together on pictures. Other painters with whom he worked over time included Paulus van Hillegaert (1596–1640), Hans Jordaens (1590–1643), Dirck van der Lisse (1607–1669), Frans Francken the Younger and Pieter Snayers .

London

In 1638 Alexander Keirincx returned to England, presumably with his wife, because he was commissioned by King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland to paint a series of views of English and Scottish landscapes. Keirincx lived and worked on Orchard Street in Westminster, London . His wife also lived there, at least in January and February 1641, because there are two documents from the time from which this can be seen. Next to his studio was the studio of Cornelis von Poelenburgh, who at the same time was commissioned to paint for Karl I. In 1640 Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel prevented Keirinxc from being imprisoned for debt to Christiaen van Vianen (goldsmith in England). The Keinrincxs and Poelenburgh left England in 1641 and returned to their respective hometowns. Ten paintings by Keirincx, which showed cities surrounded by castles and palaces and hung in Whitehall Palace , were sold to the Flemish, London-based art dealer and after the execution of Charles I in 1649, on May 3, 1650 and May 3, 1951 Painter Remigius van Leemput (1607–1675) sold.

End of life in Amsterdam

In 1641 Keirincx and his wife were back in Amsterdam. He acquired citizenship there on January 30, 1652 and died there too, shortly before October 7, 1652. The last common residence with his wife was a house on Lauriergracht . Alexander Keirincxs had a sister, Maycken, and a brother, Joost, who in turn had the children Clara and Jan.

Alexander Keirincx's widow married Jan Joosten van der Vaeck, with whom she lived on the Elandsgracht before she was widowed for the second time. She also had siblings.

style

Alexander Keirincx's Antwerp paintings are entirely in the style of the Flemish landscape tradition of Jan Brueghel the Elder , Paul Bril , Denijs van Alsloot (approx. 1570 – approx. 1626) and even more those of Gillis van Coninxloo under the clearly noticeable influence of his teacher Abraham Govaerts. While the contrasting colors of his Antwerp painter colleagues are still reflected in his early works, the later works of the Amsterdam period are characterized by a more uniform, rather delicate tone painting, influenced by the Dutch painters, which somewhat resembles the works of Jan van Goyen or Salomon van Ruysdael remembers.

Works of the special order Linz

For the Führer Museum in Linz planned by Adolf Hitler , works by Keirincx were also procured from the Linz special order. Three works are known:

  • Around 1625 Forest landscape with a wood collector , oil on wood , 79 × 52.5 cm - the work was handed over to Linz by Karl Haberstock in 1942. He got it from the art dealer J. or I. da Costa in Neuilly-sur-Seine . After the US Army invaded southern Germany during World War II , the painting was confiscated and handed over to the Munich Central Collecting Point on July 19, 1945. It was there until May 18, 1946, after which the painting was brought to Paris.
  • Around 1625 forest landscape with a pond , oil on wood, 30 × 24 cm - the work was handed over to Linz by Hildebrand Gurlitt in 1944. The painting comes from a French private collection. After the US Army marched in , the painting was confiscated and handed over to the Munich Central Collecting Point on June 29, 1945. It was there until July 11, 1946. After that, France received the painting and was brought to Paris for restitution . It has been part of the Musées Nationaux Récupération ( MNR ) since 1951 and hangs in the Louvre in Paris. Either you weren't that precise when measuring the image, or it kept getting smaller. In Linz it was 35.5 × 30.5 cm, in the Collecting Point 30.5 × 26 cm (where the height and width were mixed up when entering it) and in France the dimensions were 30 × 24 cm.
  • Around 1625 Diana discovers the misstep of Callisto or The Mistake of Callisto , oil on wood, 64.5 × 49.5 cm - The work was handed over by Maria Almas-Dietrich to Hans Posse for Linz in January 1941 . She acquired it from the Kunsthaus Lempertz in early February 1940 . After the US Army marched in, the painting was confiscated and given to the Munich Central Collecting Point on July 4, 1945. In June 1949 it reached the Wiesbaden Central Collecting Point and was handed over to the Bavarian Prime Minister Hans Ehard on August 21, 1951 . In 1967 the painting was restored and cleaned. It is the property of the Federal Republic of Germany and is on permanent loan from the Clemens Sels Museum in Neuss . The provenance research for the painting revealed in 2009 that the 1939 deceased wife Helene Tepel Mann (daughter of Heinrich Vieweg , of the painting by Julius HW Campe acquired), whose collection at Lempertz was sold, was not among the collective persecuted. A loss of property in the painting due to Nazi persecution could therefore be ruled out.

Listed works

Three missing Keirincx paintings are listed at the Lost Art Coordination Office for the Loss of Cultural Property :

  • Forest landscape , 84 × 40 cm, oil on oak , missing under the Soviet central command since 1945 or 1946. - Seeker: Berlin Gemäldegalerie
  • Water landscape with vehicle, farmsteads and church, 65 × 51.5 cm, oil painting from the collection of Joachim Ernst von Anhalt - Sucher: Eduard Prinz von Anhalt
  • Deer hunt , oil on panel, 54 × 38 cm, description: On the right side of a forest landscape, hunters on horseback chase a deer that is fleeing through a flowing body of water. In the middle distance, on a bridge, there are more mounted hunters. - Seeker: Museum of Western and Oriental Art Kiev

In lootedart.com a Keirincx painting is listed, located since 1986 in the Tate Britain is in London:

  • Fernblick auf York ( Distant View of York ), oil on panel (oak), 68.7 × 52.9 cm, 1634 (according to Tate Britain 1639)

Works (selection)

Dimensions: width × height

  • 1615–1620: Forest landscape (attributed to him), oil on copper , 15.5 × 12 cm - Statens Museum for Kunst , Copenhagen, Denmark
  • 1615–1620: Forest landscape (attributed to him), oil on copper, 17.5 × 12.5 cm - Statens Museum for Kunst , Copenhagen, Denmark
  • 1615–1635: Interior of the forest with Saint Hubertus , oil on copper, 58 × 43 cm
  • 1620: Weiher am Walde , oil on oak, 35.5 × 28 cm - Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister , Dresden
  • 1620 (um): Tree landscape with rest on the flight to Egypt , oil on oak, 69.4 × 42.2 cm - Staatsgalerie Aschaffenburg
  • 1621: Landscape with a mountain stream , oil on panel, 89 × 51.3 cm - Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum , Braunschweig
  • 1622 (approx.): Forest landscape , oil on wood, 66 × 37 cm - State Museum Schwerin
  • 1625 (approx.): Forest landscape with a pond , oil on panel, 30 × 24 cm - Louvre , Paris, France ( Musées Nationaux Récupération )
  • 1625–1650: Wooded landscape with a large oak tree , figures possibly painted by Cornelis van Poelenburgh , oil on canvas , 111.5 × 141.5 cm - Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
  • 1625–1650: The nymphs ' rest , figures painted by Dirck van der Lisse, oil on canvas, 80.5 × 56.5 cm - Musée des beaux-arts de Carcassonne , France
  • 1630: View of the forest with a large oak tree , figures painted by Paulus van Hillegaert or Hendrick Pacx, oil on canvas, 126 × 157 cm - Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen , Rotterdam, Netherlands
  • 1630 (approx.): Landscape with Apollo and the Cumaean Sibyl (?), Figures painted by Cornelis van Poelenburgh, oil on oak, 106.5 × 74.6 cm - Museum Kunstpalast , Düsseldorf
  • 1630 (approx.): Forest landscape with figures , staffage painted by Cornelis van Poelenburgh, oil on panel, 92 × 64 cm - Mauritshuis , The Hague, Netherlands
  • 1630 (approx.): Landscape , oil on oak, 92 × 70 cm - Royal Museum of Fine Arts , Antwerp, Belgium
  • 1630 (approx.): Forest landscape , oil on wood, 122 × 89.5 cm - Statens Museum for Kunst , Copenhagen, Denmark
  • 1630–1639: Large landscape with a raid , oil on panel, 105 × 73 cm
  • 1631: Oak forest with hunting scenery , oil on panel, 106.2 × 75 cm - Staatsgalerie Neuburg
  • 1633–1639 (approx.): Landscape with Kallistro , oil on panel, 106 × 75 cm, figures painted by Cornelis van Poelenburgh - Musée Fabre , Montpellier, France
  • 1635: Forest landscape with the temptation of Christ , oil on panel, 83.8 × 53 cm - Alte Pinakothek , Munich
  • 1635 (approx.): Forest landscape with bathing nymphs , staffage painted by Cornelis van Poelenburgh (attributed), oil on panel, 61 × 40 cm - Statens Museum for Kunst , Copenhagen, Denmark
  • 1639 (May – July): Richmond Castle , Yorkshire , oil on panel, 68.6 x 45.7 cm - Yale Center for British Art , New Haven, USA
  • 1639: A Distant View of York , oil on oak, 68.7 × 52.9 cm - Tate Britain , London, United Kingdom
  • 1639: Hills with a view of Helmsley Castle , oil on panel, 69 × 53 cm
  • 1639 (approx.): Falkland Palace and Howe of Fife , oil on panel, 68.6 × 45.6 cm - Scottish National Gallery , Edinburgh, United Kingdom
  • 1639 (approx.): Seton Palace and the Forth - Estuary ( Firth of Forth ), oil on panel, 68.5 × 45.6 cm - Scottish National Gallery , Edinburgh, United Kingdom
  • 1640: Hilly landscape with a river , oil on panel, 85 × 61 cm - Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum , Braunschweig
  • 1640 or 1641: Pontefract Castle , oil on canvas, 182 × 106 cm, restored 2014 - Pontefract Museum , Pontefract, United Kingdom
  • After 1640: Light wood by a stream (attributed to Keirincx with reservation), black chalk, brush in gray, on paper, 25.2 × 15.4 cm - Hamburger Kunsthalle
  • 1643 (c.): Wooded River Landscape with Deer , oil on panel - Michele & Donald D'Amour Museum of Fine Arts , Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
  • 164 ?: Forest landscape with hunters , oil on panel - Szépművészeti Múzeum , Budapest, Hungary
  • 164 ?: Landscape with carts , staffage painted by Cornelis van Poelenburgh, oil on wood - National Museum in Gdansk , Poland
  • 1640–1652 (approx.): Forest landscape with hikers , oil on canvas, 38.5 × 31.5 cm - Musée des beaux-arts de Quimper , France
  • 16 ??: Landscape with Cephalus and Prokris , oil on panel, 80.6 × 47.6 cm - Virginia Museum of Fine Arts , Richmond, USA
  • 16 ??: Diana discovers Kallistro's misstep , oil on wood, 64.5 × 49.5 cm - Clemens-Sels-Museum , Neuss (permanent loan)
  • 16 ??: Landscape with Diana and Actaion , oil on panel, 64 × 46.5 cm - Hermitage (Small Hermitage), Saint Petersburg, Russia
  • 16 ??: Hunters in a Forest , oil on panel, 92 × 69 cm - Hermitage (Small Hermitage), Saint Petersburg, Russia
  • 16 ??: Forest path by the water , oil on oak, 99.5 × 57 cm - Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister , Dresden
  • 16 ??: Forest landscape flowed through by a river , oil on oak, 70.5 × 44.5 cm - Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister , Dresden
  • 16 ??: Ponds at the edge of the forest , pen drawing, blue wash , 26.1 × 17.4 cm - Kupferstichkabinett Dresden
  • 16 ??: Village landscape , oil on wood, 82.1 × 48 cm - Alte Pinakothek , Munich
  • 16 ??: Forest landscape , oil on wood, 59 × 43 cm - Alte Pinakothek , Munich
  • 16 ??: Oak forest , oil on wood - Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen

Further works can be found in the Fitzwilliam Museum , the Courtauld Institute of Art , the Bonnefantenmuseum , the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nîmes , the Musée des beaux-arts de Carcassonne , the National Museum Warsaw , the Grafenburg Barock Museum , and the Kunsthalle Bremen and in the Hamburger Kunsthalle .

Group exhibitions (selection)

literature

Web links

Commons : Alexander Keirincx  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Source 1 (Dutch)
  2. ↑ English-language text of the Tate Britain to Keirincxs stay in England from 1638 to 1641
  3. ^ Certificate of Keirinxc, in which it is stated that Keirincx's wife also lives in London. Page 25, under b.) . With regard to debts, see page 27 under h.) .
  4. ^ The painting in the database of the Central Collecting Point Munich
  5. ↑ Linz forest landscape with a pond
  6. ^ The painting in the database of the Central Collecting Point Munich
  7. ↑ Painting in the holdings of the MNR
  8. ^ Painting in the Louvre .
  9. ↑ Linz Diana discovers the misstep of Callisto (with a slightly different title on the website)
  10. ↑ Relevant page in the auction catalog (digitized version)
  11. ↑ Illustration in the auction catalog
  12. ^ The painting in the database of the Central Collecting Point Munich
  13. ^ Result ( memento from May 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) of provenance research 2009
  14. ↑ Forest landscape at Lost Art
  15. ↑ Water landscape at Lost Art
  16. ↑ Deer hunting at Lost Art
  17. ↑ Distant view of York at looted.art.com
  18. ^ Proof of forest landscape , copper, Statens Museum for Kunst
  19. ^ Proof of forest landscape 2, copper, Statens Museum for Kunst
  20. ↑ Proof ( Memento from May 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Weiher am Walde
  21. ↑ Tree landscape with rest on the flight to Egypt , State Gallery Aschaffenburg
  22. ↑ Proof ( memento from May 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Landscape with mountain stream , Braunschweig (Fig. 90, GG 182)
  23. ↑ Evidence The Rest Period of the Nymphs
  24. ↑ Proof of forest view with large oak , Rotterdam
  25. ↑ Proof of landscape with Apollo and the Cumean Sibyl (?)
  26. ↑ Proof of forest landscape with figures , Mauritshuis
  27. ^ Evidence landscape , Antwerp
  28. ↑ Proof of forest landscape , Statens Museum for Kunst
  29. ↑ Oak forest with hunting scenery , Staatsgalerie Neuburg
  30. ^ Evidence 1 Landscape with Kallistro
  31. ↑ Evidence 2 Landscape with Kallistro
  32. ↑ Forest landscape with the temptation of Christ , Alte Pinakothek, Munich
  33. ↑ evidence Wooded Landscape with Nymphs badenen , Statens Museum for Kunst
  34. ↑ Alexander Keirincx at the Yale Center for British Art
  35. ↑ Alexander Keirincx in Tate Britain
  36. ^ Proof of Helmsley Castle
  37. ↑ Alexander Keirincx in the National Galleries of Scotland
  38. ↑ Proof ( Memento from May 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Hilly landscape with river , Braunschweig (Fig. 91, GG 183)
  39. ↑ Alexander Keirincx , Pontefract Castle
  40. ↑ Light wood by a stream near the Hamburger Kunsthalle
  41. ↑ Proof of wooded river landscape with deer
  42. ^ Proof of forest landscape with hunters , Budapest
  43. ↑ Proof 1 forest landscape with hikers
  44. ↑ Evidence 2 forest landscape with hikers
  45. ^ Proof of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
  46. ↑ Proof landscape with Diana and Actaion
  47. ↑ Proof of hunters in a forest
  48. ↑ Proof ( Memento from May 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Waldweg am Wasser
  49. ↑ Proof ( Memento from May 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Forest landscape with river flow
  50. ↑ Proof ( Memento from May 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Ponds at the edge of the forest
  51. ^ Village landscape , Alte Pinakothek , Munich
  52. ^ Forest landscape , Alte Pinakothek , Munich
  53. ^ Eichenwald , Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen
  54. ^ Fitzwilliam Museum
  55. ^ Courtauld Institute of Art
  56. ^ Grafenburg Baroque Museum ( Memento from May 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  57. ↑ Alexander Keirincx on ArtFacts.net , exhibitions
personal data
SURNAME Keirincx, Alexander
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Keirinckx, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Flemish Baroque painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1600
PLACE OF BIRTH Antwerp
DATE OF DEATH October 1652
Place of death Amsterdam