Emanuel de Witte

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Choir of the New Church in Amsterdam

Emanuel de Witte (* around 1617 in Alkmaar , † 1692 in Amsterdam through suicide ) was a Dutch painter . As the son of a teacher, he joined the painters' guild of Alkmaar in 1636 , soon afterwards went to Rotterdam and worked in Delft from around 1641 to 1649 . Then he then took up residence in Amsterdam.

Emanuel de Witte was an excellent architectural painter who mainly painted the interiors of Reformed and Catholic churches in Holland , less often views of streets and squares. Pictures of him, whose main attraction lies in the fine lighting effect, can be found in the museums of Amsterdam, Brussels , Berlin ( The Synagogue of Amsterdam ), Braunschweig , Hamburg , Rotterdam ( The Amsterdam Fish Market ) and Weimar .

After a life darkened by worries, arguments, lawsuits, provocations, humiliations and the early death of two wives, he committed suicide in Amsterdam in 1692.

Selection of works

Portrait of a family in the Alte Pinakothek
  • Amsterdam Oude Kerk during the sermon, around 1660, canvas, 79 × 64 cm. London , National Gallery.
  • Delft Nieuwe Kerk, 1656, canvas, 97 × 85 cm. Lille , Palais des Beaux-Arts.
  • Delfter Oude Kerk during the sermon, 1651, wood, 59 × 43 cm. London, Wallace Collection.
  • The Amsterdam Stock Exchange, 1653, wood, 49 × 48 cm. Rotterdam, Museum van der Vorm.
  • Fischmarkt, 1672, canvas, 68 × 76 cm. Rotterdam, Boymans-van Beuningen Museum.
  • Interior view of a synagogue, around 1680, wood, 55 × 45 cm. Formerly: Berlin, Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum.
  • Interior, around 1660, canvas, 77 × 104 cm. Rotterdam, Boymans-van Beuningen Museum.
  • Jupiter and Mercury in Philemon and Baucis, 1647, wood, 54 × 62 cm. Delft, Stedelijk Museum Het Prinsenhof.
  • Classicist Catholic Church, 1685, canvas, 67 × 56 cm. Zurich, Kunsthaus.
  • Palazzo in an Italian city: Fantastic view of Rome, 1664, canvas, 67 × 67 cm. Saint Petersburg , Hermitage.
  • Interior view of the Nieuwe Kerk in Delft, 1644, oil / canvas, 78.9 × 67 cm, Residenzgalerie Salzburg

literature

  • Hermann Arthur Lier:  Witte, Emanuel de . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 43, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1898, p. 592.
  • I. Manke, Emanuel de Witte , Amsterdam 1963.
  • EP Richardson, De Witte and the imaginative nature of Dutch art in Art Quarterly I, 1938, pp. 5 ff.
  • Walter Hertzsch: Emanuel de Witte (painter and work) . Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1980

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personal data
SURNAME Witte, Emanuel de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch painter
DATE OF BIRTH around 1617
PLACE OF BIRTH Alkmaar
DATE OF DEATH 1692
Place of death Amsterdam