Cornelis van Haarlem

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Cornelis van Haarlem Corneliszoon (* 1562 in Haarlem ; † 11. November 1638 ) was a Dutch painter and draftsman , one of the leading artists of Mannerism in the Netherlands and an important predecessor of Frans Hals .

Life

He was a member of the Haarlem School, which was heavily influenced by the work of Bartholomäus Spranger . He mainly painted portraits as well as mythological and biblical subjects. Originally he painted in large format, highly stylized and worked with a grotesque, unnatural anatomy. Later his works got a more naturalistic character.

The allegory of the cave in an engraving by Saenredam (1604)

Around 1600 he painted one of the few representations of Plato's allegory of the cave . This oil painting is lost today, but reproduced in a copper engraving made by Jan Saenredam in 1604 .

Cornelis was married to Marietje Deyman, daughter of the mayor Arent Pieters Deyman and a member of a well-known bourgeois family in Haarlem.

Works

exhibition

  • 2012: De hollandse Michelangelo. Cornelis van Haarlem 1562–1638 , Frans-Hals-Museum , Haarlem.

literature

Web links

Commons : Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files