Daniel Seghers

Daniel Seghers (1590-1661).

Holy Family in a wreath of flowers , attributed to Simon de Vos (figures) ( Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna )

Daniel Seghers (also Daniel Zegers) (* before December 6, 1590 in Antwerp ; † November 2, 1661 ibid) was a Flemish painter.

Seghers trained as a flower painter under Jan Brueghel , joined the Antwerp painters' guild in 1611 and the Jesuit order in 1614 . This allowed him a longer stay in Rome for his training . He liked to paint garlands of flowers around images of the Madonna and saints of the Rubens pupils ( Abraham van Diepenbeeck , Cornelius Schut , Erasmus Quellinus II , van Thulden), which are mostly gray in gray so that they appear as reliefs; but he also depicted flowers in bouquets and in vases.

Its color is fresh and light, without lapsing into colorfulness; his drawing is very careful. He died in Antwerp on November 2, 1661. One finds numerous pictures of him in Belgium , Vienna, Dresden, London, The Hague, Madrid and other cities.

Selection of works

Lamentation of Christ, canvas, 85 × 64 cm. Dessau , Mosigkau Castle, State Museum.
Flowers in a glass vase, 1635, wood, 81 × 54 cm. Toledo (Ohio) , Museum of Art .
Portrait of a gentleman in floral decorations, copper, 83 × 59 cm. Brussels , Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts . (Portrait of a gentleman by Gonzales Coques ?)
Holy Family in floral decorations, wood, 83 × 55 cm. Vienna , Kunsthistorisches Museum (Holy Family von Johann Bockhorst ?)
Holy Family in floral arrangements, 1644, copper, 87 × 62 cm. Karlsruhe , Kunsthalle . (Holy Family of Cornelius Schut ?)
Marble relief with a playing Bacchus boy, wood, 46 × 68 cm. Munich , Alte Pinakothek .

literature

Joseph Eduard Wessely : Seghers . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 33, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, pp. 607-609.

Web links

Commons : Daniël Seghers - collection of images, videos and audio files

Works by Daniel Seghers at Zeno.org .

personal data
SURNAME	Seghers, Daniel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Zegers, Daniel; Segers, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Flemish painter
DATE OF BIRTH	before December 6, 1590
PLACE OF BIRTH	Antwerp
DATE OF DEATH	November 2, 1661
Place of death	Antwerp