Emanuel van Beever

Emanuel van Beever, title unknown, 1912, oil on canvas

Emanuel Samson van Beever (born March 28, 1876 in Antwerp , † June 20, 1912 in Laren (North Holland) ) was a Dutch painter .

Life

Emanuel van Beever was born on March 28, 1876 in Antwerp, the son of the jeweler Samson Godried van Beever and Rosalie Barnett. Emanuel lived in Antwerp for the first four years of his life. Then his parents moved to Amsterdam where Emanuel went to school. After he left school, he got an apprenticeship in a diamond mill. It soon became apparent, however, that Emanuel was not very interested in this work, but was interested in drawing and painting. And so he began to continue his training in this direction.

Initially he took lessons at the Quellinus School in Amsterdam. He didn't really feel at home here. He skipped classes and instead took painting lessons from the painter Alexander Boom . He was a great admirer of Breitner , Maris, and Israëls, and the consequence of this was that his early works were more of that succession than of his own style. A modest grant from Israëls enabled van Beever to study at the Academy of Fine Arts from 1894 to 1897. During these years he lived in very modest circumstances and was repeatedly forced to earn something by playing the violin. His parents lived in London at that time and when they fell ill there, van Beever went to London to look after them. Two years later, when both parents had died, van Beever returned to the Netherlands, where he settled first in Blaricum and later in Laren in 1900 . During this time he worked hard to improve his own style. In 1903 he became a member of the artists' association "De Tien" (The Ten), whose members belong to the second generation of the Laren School .

On June 20, 1912 van Beever died in Laren at the age of only 36.

In his memory, a street in Laren was named after him, the Van Beeverlaan .

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Emanuel van Beever mainly painted interior views of farms, still lifes and village views. A number of his works were also created in Mol (Belgium) . It received good reviews, including in the Nieuwe Rotterdamse Courant . This newspaper wrote about his still lifes, for example. For example: "Van Bever is currently an admirable talent."

Web links

• Joods Historisch Museum (Dutch)
• De Valk Lexicon kunstenaars Laren-Blaricum (Dutch)
• Emanuel van Beever. Biographical data and works in the Netherlands Institute for Art History (Dutch)