Bartholomeus Molenaer

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Bartholomeus Jansz. Molenaer (* around 1618 in Haarlem ; † September 8, 1650 there ) was a Dutch genre painter .

Life

Bartholomeus Molenaer came from a very impoverished family. He was one of eight children of the tailor Jan Mientsen Molenaer and his second wife Grietgen Adriaensdr. Two of his brothers also became painters, the portraitist and genre painter Jan Miense Molenaer and the landscape painter Nicolaes Molenaer . On September 4, 1640 he joined the St. Luke painters' guild in Haarlem. In 1641 he married Cuyniera Hendricx Vrije. He had four children with her, Frans, Jan, Maria and Claes. According to the ALK Thieme-BeckerThe painter lived in 1646 with his brother Jan Miense on Lombaertsteech (now Lombardsteeg) in Haarlem, but that seems to be a mistake, because according to a file from 1656, Jan Miense had only bought this house in 1656. His workshop was in his mother-in-law Maritge Claesdr's house on Kleine Houtstraat. He died about eight days before the inventory of September 17, 1650. After this inventory, he owed his mother-in-law in arrears of eighteen months of house rent.

Works

The typical motifs of his paintings were genre scenes with farmers in a restaurant or with students in school. He works under the strong influence of A. Brouwer , A. van Ostade and his brother Jan Miense. He signed his works with his own monogram "B.Mr" or with the initials of other artists, e. B. "AB" as if it were a portrait of Adriaen Brouwer (this was common practice at the time).

Museums

His works can be seen in many museums, for example the Middle Rhine Museum in Koblenz, the National Museum in Stockholm and the Art Museum in Worcester .

literature

Web links

Commons : Bartholomeus Molenaer  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bartholomeus Molenaer. In: RKD. Retrieved January 28, 2020 (Dutch).
  2. ↑ Bartholomeus Molenaer. In: RKD. Retrieved January 28, 2020 (Dutch).
  3. ↑ Juliane Harms: Judith Leyster. Your life and your work . In: Oud Holland . tape 44 , 1927, ISSN  0030-672X , p. 88-96 , JSTOR : 42722564 .
  4. ↑ P. Biesboer: Collections of Paintings in Haarlem, 1572-1745 . Getty Publications, 2001, ISBN 978-0-89236-573-9 ( google.com [accessed January 28, 2020]).
  5. ^ Middle Rhine Museum
  6. ^ National Museum in Stockholm
  7. ^ Art Museum of Worcester
personal data
SURNAME Molenaer, Bartholomeus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Molenaer, Bartholomeus Jansz.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch genre painter
DATE OF BIRTH around 1618
PLACE OF BIRTH Haarlem
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 1650
Place of death Haarlem