Folbert van Alten-Allen

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Portrait of Folbert van Alten-Allen by Justus van den Nypoort

Folbert van Alten-Allen ( Dutch : Folpert van Ouden Allen or Folpert van Ouwen Allen , also Philibert van Ouden Allen ) (* 1635 in Utrecht (baptized September 10th), † December 28th, 1715 in Vienna ) was a Dutch painter mainly by City vedutas .

Works

Wall pottery, Korte Nieuwstraat, Utrecht

Nothing is known about his childhood and youth. His first signed painting De Korte Nieuwstraat te Utrecht was made around 1655. Since 1677 he can be traced in Vienna. He was the imperial chamber painter of Leopold I and from January 1, 1678, received an annual salary of initially 200 guilders, from 1682 of 800 guilders. Between 1680 and 1703 he made numerous bird-eye views of the city for the emperor

Bird's eye view of the city of Vienna before the second Turkish siege

Vienna before 1683

Most of his paintings have not survived, but fortunately three copies of the copper engraving made in 1686 of his bird's eye view of the city of Vienna on the eve of the Second Turkish Siege have survived the course of time. Two are in the possession of the Historical Museum of the City of Vienna , one in the Austrian National Library . The view shows Vienna from an elevated position from the west and gives a unique overview of the suburbs that were demolished immediately before the siege. The painting on which the copperplate is based must have been created between October 29, 1679 (erection of the wooden Trinity column on the moat ) and July 12, 1683 (the suburbs burned down one day before the siege began). Van Alten-Allen had redrawn the painting himself for the engraving. The view of the city on six copper plates in Amsterdam was engraved by Joseph Mulder, the printing took place in 1686. Van Alten-Allen named the vedute in a dedication to the Lower Austrian Land Marshal and General Landobristen Franz Maximilian Graf Mollarth : Abriß der Kayserl. Residence city of Vienna, as it stood before the siege and the subsequent demolition of part of its suburbs.

literature

  • Max Eisler: Historical Atlas of the Vienna Cityscape . Vienna, Staatsdruckerei, 1919, pp 23/24, panel XII

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Folpert van Ouden Allen
  2. ↑ Maandblad Oud-Utrecht Volume 60, Utrecht, 1987, pp. 253-55
  3. ↑ According to Eisler, the dates refer to the accounts of the court payment office for the picture frames, the paintings were probably made earlier.

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personal data
SURNAME Alten-Allen, Folbert van
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ouden Allen, Folpert van; Ouwen Allen, Folpert van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch Vedouten painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1635
PLACE OF BIRTH Utrecht
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 1715
Place of death Vienna