Carlos de Haes

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Carlos de Haes (born January 27, 1826 in Brussels , † June 17, 1898 in Madrid ) was a Spanish landscape painter and impressionist of Belgian descent.

Life

Carlos de Haes:
Praderas (Villerville)

Carlos de Haes was born in Brussels, but moved to Málaga with his family in 1835 , where he was trained by the Spanish portrait painter Luis de la Cruz y Ríos . In 1850 he went back to Belgium and worked for the landscape painter José Quinaux . During this time he traveled to France , Germany and the Netherlands and learned about the various forms of romantic and realistic painting.

In 1855 de Haes returned to Spain and exhibited his landscape paintings with great success in various exhibitions, in particular at the Exposición Nacional in Madrid . In 1857, as a Spanish citizen, with his view of the royal palace from the Casa de Campo, in 1857 he was able to secure the chair of landscape painting at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid. In 1860 he became Académico de mérito at the Academia de San Fernando. In the 1870s, de Haes concentrated increasingly on the landscapes of the Pyrenees and the Sierra de Guadarrama in Castile . He also traveled to areas previously ignored by Spanish artists, using thick brushstrokes to paint small-format landscapes in Aragón , Elche and Mallorca .

Due to his own style of realistic landscape depiction as a contrast to the prevailing romanticism , and his well-known students, he was soon one of the most famous and influential landscape painters in the country and received numerous prizes at exhibitions in Madrid. He established plein air painting and was convinced that only final corrections should be carried out in the studio. His students included Aureliano de Beruete , Darío de Regoyos Valdes , Agustín Riancho , Espina and Morera , among others .

After his death in 1898, it was mainly his relatives who inherited his now existing fortune, and he bequeathed his paintings to his students, who in turn donated them to the Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno in Madrid. In 1900 they were hung and presented in a room specially created for these pictures, but removed again during a renovation during the Second Republic and the collection was dissolved. His former student Morera set up another exhibition room for his pictures in Lleida , and many of his pictures can now be seen in the Museo del Prado in Madrid.

Works (selection)

  • Rompientes

  • Canal abandonado. Vriesland

  • Los picos de Europa

  • Tejares de la Montaña de Príncipe Pío

literature

  • Götz Czymmek (Hrsg.): Landscape in the light. Impressionist painting in Europe and North America 1860–1910. Exhibition catalog of the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum in Cologne and the Kunsthaus Zürich 1990
  • Haes, Carlos de in Grove Dictionary of Art (online), Oxford University Press 2007–2009

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Haes, Carlos de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish impressionist landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1826
PLACE OF BIRTH Brussels , Belgium
DATE OF DEATH June 17, 1898
Place of death Madrid , Spain