Bonaventure Peeters

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Bonaventure Peeters, engraving by Wenceslaus Hollar .
Port in the Orient
(Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique)

Bonaventura Peeters the Elder (* July 23 or 25, 1614 in Antwerp , † July 25, 1652 in Hoboken near Antwerp) was a Flemish marine painter , etcher , draftsman and poet of the Baroque .

Life

Little is known about his early life, but he grew up in a prominent family of artists. Peeters learned painting from his father, master of the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke from 1607 to 1608. His brothers Gillis Peeters (1612–1653), who worked with him, Jan Peeters (1624–1677) and his sister Catharina Peeters (1615–1676) were also Marine painter. His nephew of the same name, son of Gillis Peeters, was known as Bonaventure Peeters the Younger .

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Peeters devoted himself to marine painting after long sea voyages that could have taken him to Turkey . Better-known images such as his port of Arkhangelsk (1644) suggest that he spent his early years at sea. Other images ( Orient , America ), on the other hand, suggest influences of the beginning exoticism , i.e. a free design of the themes according to his imagination.

Peeters liked to portray the turbulent or stormy sea, animated by ships, but also coastal landscapes with figures. They are also called zeekens (little seascapes). This specialization was typical of the heyday of this painting, which it reached in the Dutch school of the 17th century, the Dutch Golden Age . Excellent older marine painters were also Jan Porcellis (before 1584–1632), Jan van Goyen (1596–1656), Willem van de Velde the Elder (1611–1693) and Ludolf Backhuysen (1630–1708), of whom he was considered the best .

1634 he was also in the Guild of St. Luke added. He remained active in his hometown until the beginning of the 1640s. After being persecuted by the Jesuits , on whom he wrote a satirical poem, he had to leave Antwerp and moved to nearby Hoboken. He died there at the age of 38.

In his short creative period he created quite a large number of paintings. Sun posted Gustav Parthey around 60 paintings in the galleries of Berlin , Dresden , Kassel , Antwerp, Braunschweig and Vienna ( Austrian Gallery Belvedere ). Today there are works in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich / London, in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Brussels and in the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum.

literature

Web links

Commons : Bonaventura Peeters  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Joseph Eduard Wessely :  Peeters, Bonaventura . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 25, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1887, p. 312 f. "Born in Antwerp and baptized on July 25, 1614"
  2. ↑ Catharina Peeters. In: Adriaan van der Willigen, Fred G. Meijer: A dictionary of Dutch and Flemish still-life painters working in oils: 1525-1725. Primavera, Leiden 2003, ISBN 90-74310-85-0 , p. 158.
  3. ↑ Peeters, Bonaventure . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 12, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 804.
  4. ↑ Inventory number BHC1951 , National Maritime Museum , Greenwich .
  5. ↑ Vlieghe: Flemish Art and Architecture. 1998, pp. 198-199.
  6. ^ Gustav Parthey: Peters, Buonaventura. In: Ders .: Deutscher Bildersaal. List of oil paintings in Germany by deceased painters from all schools, compiled in alphabetical order. Volume 2: L-Z. Nicolai, Berlin 1864, pp. 246–249 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
personal data
SURNAME Peeters, Bonaventure
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Peeters the Elder, Bonaventure; Peeters, Bonaventuur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch marine painter, etcher, draftsman and poet
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1614
PLACE OF BIRTH Antwerp
DATE OF DEATH July 25, 1652
Place of death Hoboken