Cecil van Haanen

Self-portrait, 1885

Cecil van Haanen (born November 3, 1844 in Vienna ; † September 24, 1914 there ) was an Austrian portrait and genre painter .

Life

Cecilus van Haanen was the son of Remigius Adrianus Haanen and Emilie Mayer von Alsó-Rußbach . He was trained at an early age by his father and Friedrich Schilcher , and from April 1854 he was educated at the preschool of the Vienna Academy under Peter Johann Nepomuk Geiger . From 1864 to 1865 he attended the Karlsruhe Art School , where Ludwig des Coudres and Johann Wilhelm Schirmer taught. Then he tried to be accepted into the painting school of Carl Theodor von Piloty in Munich . In Munich he was tutored by Hermann Anschütz . Here he made friends with the painter Wilhelm Leibl . In 1866 he moved to Antwerp for six years . With Henri van Lerius he had a teacher for the first time who, in addition to history and portrait painting, also dealt with genre painting, a topic that became decisive for his painting in Venice under different conditions. From 1873 he lived mainly in Venice . Percy E. Pinkerton reported that van Haanen spent several months in London and worked there as an illustrator for several prestigious magazines.

After his mother's death, his friend, the internist Julius von Mannaberg (1860–1941), was his most important link to Vienna and his executor . Cecil van Haanen died in Vienna on September 24, 1914 and was buried in Vienna's central cemetery.

Works

Works (selection)

The shoe pinches . (Venice 1880, oil on wood)

The dear oracle . (1840, oil on canvas) Dorotheum
Head of a young girl . Venice around 1870
Fitting . (Oil on wood)
Self portrait . (1885 oil on canvas) Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums
A gypsy girl . (Oil on canvas). University of Dundee Fine Art Collections
Girl . (Watercolor drawing and pencil)
Girls from Chioggia . (Oil on canvas)

Letters

Cecil van Haanen to unknown. Vienna, February 22nd, 1873.
Cecil van Haanen to Leopold Carl Müller . December 8, 1885.

literature

Catalog of valuable modern pictures and water-color drawings, including nine pictures and drawings of H. Herkomer […] seven works of C. van Haanen . W. Clowes and sons, London 1891
A catalog of a loan collection of pictures by C. van Haanen, and other oil paintings, by artists of the British and foreign schools . Thomas McLean's Gallery, London 1896.
Haanen, Cecil van : General artist lexicon. Life and work of the most famous visual artists . Prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller . Edited by Hans Wolfgang Singer . 2nd volume. 5th unaltered edition. Literary publishing house Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt am Main 1921, p. 112. Digitized
Cecil van Haanen. Albertina, Vienna. Drawings, oil sketches, paintings. Exhibition spring 1955 . Preface by Otto Benesch . Schroll, Vienna 1955
Haanen, Cecil (ius) van . In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 . Volume 2 (Lfg. 7, 1958), ISBN 3-7001-1328-5 ). P. 116. Digitized
Gabriele Röder: Studies on the artistic significance of Cecil van Haanens . Master's thesis University of Vienna . Faculty of historical and cultural studies at the University of Vienna 2002 digitized
M. van der Mullen: Challenging boundaries. The Haanen family as a case study regarding material and immaterial exchange in the field of visual arts between the Netherlands and the German speaking world (1815 - 1860) . Uetrecht 2010 (Diss.)

Web links

Commons : Cecil van Haanen - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Cecil van Haanen at Artnet
Action Cecil van Haanen Dorotheum
Cecil van Haanen Getty Research Institute
Signature of Cecil van Haanen
Works by Cecil van Haanen in the Leopold Museum , Vienna
Cecil van Haanen The pearl threaders of Christie’s June 17, 2004

Individual evidence

^ "Undated handwritten curriculum vitae, archive of the Wiener Künstlerhaus" (quoted from Gabriele Röder, p. 3).
↑ Gabriele Röder, p. 13.
↑ Carl van Haanen's register (sic!) 1865 .
↑ Cecil van Haanen. Albertina, Vienna. Drawings, oil sketches, paintings. Exhibition spring 1955 , p. 4.
↑ Gabriele Röder, p. 17.
↑ Gabriele Röder, p. 9 and p. 26 ff.
^ Percy E. Pinkerton: Cecil van Haanen . In: The Magazin of Art . Volume X. Casseel and Company, London, Paris, New York, Melbourne, 1887, p. 1. See also page 3, a steel engraving after a photograph by Cecil van Haanen by the London photographers Elliot and Fry .
↑ Gabriele Röder, p. 11.
^ Bavarian State Library, Munich. Signature: Autogr. Haanen, Cecil van .
↑ , Vienna Library in the City Hall. Call number : 66479 .

personal data
SURNAME	Haanen, Cecil van
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Haanen, Cecilius van (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian portrait and genre painter
DATE OF BIRTH	November 3, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna
DATE OF DEATH	September 24, 1914
Place of death	Vienna

[1] "Undated handwritten curriculum vitae, archive of the Wiener Künstlerhaus" (quoted from Gabriele Röder, p. 3).

[2] Gabriele Röder, p. 13.

[3] Carl van Haanen's register (sic!) 1865 .

[4] Cecil van Haanen. Albertina, Vienna. Drawings, oil sketches, paintings. Exhibition spring 1955 , p. 4.

[5] Gabriele Röder, p. 17.

[6] Gabriele Röder, p. 9 and p. 26 ff.

[7] Percy E. Pinkerton: Cecil van Haanen . In: The Magazin of Art . Volume X. Casseel and Company, London, Paris, New York, Melbourne, 1887, p. 1. See also page 3, a steel engraving after a photograph by Cecil van Haanen by the London photographers Elliot and Fry .

[8] Gabriele Röder, p. 11.

[9] Bavarian State Library, Munich. Signature: Autogr. Haanen, Cecil van .

[10] , Vienna Library in the City Hall. Call number : 66479 .