Barend Cornelis Koekkoek

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BC Koekkoek , lithograph after Charles Baugniet , 1839

Barend Cornelis Koekkoek (born October 11, 1803 in Middelburg , Kingdom of the Netherlands , † April 5, 1862 in Kleve ) was a Dutch landscape painter who came to Kleve in 1834. Here he found the ideal source of inspiration for his landscape compositions and, in 1848, moved with his family into a painter's palace designed for him by the Klever architect Anton Weinhagen . The building in Kleve, which is now a listed building, has been used as a museum since 1960. After the Kurhaus Kleve Museum became the municipal museum in 1997, it serves as a museum for Dutch romantic painting around BC Koekkoek and his circle and is now the BC Koekkoek House .

Life

Childhood and studies

Barend Cornelis Koekkoek came from the Dutch artist family Koekkoek . He was born as the eldest of four sons of the marine painter Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek and his wife Anna van Koolwijk in Middelburg. His brothers were Marinus Adrianus Koekkoek the Elder , Johannes Koekkoek and Hermanus Koekkoek the Elder , his sister was Anna Koekkoek (* 1812). He started drawing in his father's studio at an early age and joined the local drawing academy in 1817. Here he attended Abraham Krayestein's evening class, which was mainly based on model drawings. From 1822, thanks to a grant from the Royal Government, he studied for three years at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Amsterdam, which opened on January 11, 1822, under Jan Willem Pienemann and Jean Augustin Daiwaille , where Koekkoek trained according to a living model and received plaster of paris. On October 15, 1823 he received his diploma and was honored with several awards in this discipline over the next two years.

BC Koekkoek left Amsterdam in 1826 and went out into nature as a budding landscape painter. On his wandering he met his first student, Willem Bodeman, who joined him. Koekkoek first spent the next two years in Hilversum , where a circle of painters had formed around Pieter Geradus van Os. In 1828 he settled in Beek near Nijmegen for a year , but kept returning to the capital and in the summer of the same year undertook study trips to the Harz , the Rhine and Italy .

Move to Kleve

BC Koekkoek: Mountainous Landscape with Resting Peasants , 1843, oil on panel
Residential and studio building in Kleve built on the remains of a former city tower

Between 1826 and 1829 Koekkoek worked with his former teacher Daiwaille. This was founded in Amsterdam in a lithographic institution and prior to his time at the Academy lithographs published. In 1830 he traveled to the Harz, Rhineland and Brabant . In December 1831 Koekkoek received honorary membership of the artists' association "Arti Sacrum" in Rotterdam and in January of the following year became a member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Amsterdam. In 1833, again in Hilversum, he married the painter Elise Thérèse Daiwaille (* 1814 in Amsterdam, † 1881 in Koblenz), the daughter of his teacher and friend Jean Augustin Daiwaille. In 1834 the young couple moved to Kleve and had five daughters, two of whom - Adèle Koekkoek (1838–1919) and Maria Louise Koekkoek (1840–1910) - continued the tradition of their parents and became a painter.

In Kleve, Koekkoek founded a "drawing college" in 1841, in which he had his students draw from models , although the college became a pure school for landscape painting. In 1843 Koekkoek moved into his Belvedere, which was built on the foundations of an old city tower, and since 1848 has lived in the patrician house on the same property , which was built in a classicist style based on plans by the Klever architect Anton Weinhagen . The representative painter's palace with studio is located at Koekkoekplatz 1, formerly Kavarinerstraße 33, in the heart of the lower town of Kleves. The house, with the Belvedere today a gem of the city, will continue in the tradition of its builder as a museum for the painting of the Klever Romanticism; it is considered one of the most beautiful artist houses in the Rhineland and the neighboring Netherlands. In Kleve he was a member of the Masonic Lodge "Zur Hope".

Last years

In November 1858 Barend Cornelis Koekkoek suffered a stroke at the age of 56, which ended his artistic activity. He had to give up his studio in the Belvedere and moved to the top floor of his palace. In 1861 he was made an honorary member of the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg before he died on April 5, 1862 in his adopted home Kleve. In the same year Koekkoek posthumously represented the Netherlands at the World Exhibition in London.

Awards and honors

literature

  • Freundeskreis Museum Kurhaus and Koekkoek-Haus Kleve (ed.): Barend Cornelis Koekkoek (1803–1862), his family, his school and the BC Koekkoek-Haus in Kleve. Texts by Angelika Nollert, Guido de Werd . 3rd revised edition. Kleve 2000, ISBN 3-9805641-9-3 .
  • Angelika Nollert : Barend Cornelis Koekkoek 1803–1862. A landscape painter of the Dutch Romanticism. Dissertation. University of Münster 1997. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-631-36417-2 .
  • Angelika Nollert (Ed.): Barend Cornelis Koekkoek (1803–1862). Prince of the Landscape Painter. Dordrechts Museum May 18 to August 31, 1997; Museum BC Koekkoek-Haus, Kleve, autumn 1997. Dordrechts Museum, Dordrecht 1997, ISBN 90-400-9960-X .

Web links

Commons : Barend Cornelis Koekkoek  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Angelika Nollert: The landscape painter Barend Cornelis Koekkoek . In: Freundeskreis Museum Kurhaus and Koekkoek-Haus Kleve eV (ed.): Barend Cornelis Koekkoek (1803–1862), his family, his school and the BC Koekkoek house in Kleve , Kleve 2000, p. 9 ff.
  2. ↑ Angelika Nollert: The landscape painter Barend Cornelis Koekkoek . In: Freundeskreis Museum Kurhaus and Koekkoek-Haus Kleve eV (ed.), P. 11
  3. ↑ Angelika Nollert, in: Freundeskreis Museum Kurhaus and Koekkoek-Haus Kleve eV (ed.), P. 18
  4. ↑ Angelika Nollert, in: Freundeskreis Museum Kurhaus and Koekkoek-Haus Kleve eV (ed.), P. 24
  5. ↑ Angelika Nollert, in: Freundeskreis Museum Kurhaus and Koekkoek-Haus Kleve eV (ed.), P. 31
  6. ↑ Ancient Masonic Lodge activated. In: Rheinische Post from May 23, 2017.
  7. ↑ Angelika Nollert, in: Freundeskreis Museum Kurhaus and Koekkoek-Haus Kleve eV (ed.), P. 37 f.
personal data
SURNAME Koekkoek, Barend Cornelis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1803
PLACE OF BIRTH Middelburg , Kingdom of the Netherlands
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 1862
Place of death Kleve , Kingdom of the Netherlands