Frans Crabbe

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Frans Crabbe (* around 1480 in Mechelen ; † 1553 in Mechelen) was a Flemish engraver of the region's early Renaissance . He started engraving as an art form around 1521, probably after Albrecht Dürer's trip through the Netherlands at that time. In 1521 Dürer had presented himself at the court of the governor of the Habsburg Netherlands and regent Margaret of Austria in Mechelen. Margarete was known as a patron of art.

It has been convincingly proven that Frans Crabbe was the master with the cancer , an engraver who signed his works with a little cancer. The engravings attributed to Crabbe depict traditional religious themes such as Christ as the Man of Sorrows, in which the artist begins a fusion of late medieval formal language with the language of the Renaissance and which introduces a new representation of the figures and their bodies, influenced by the classical period. He also takes up many secular themes and depicts everyday scenes such as mercenaries or simple farmers.

Crabbe can be considered one of the "ancestors" of the Dutch genre representation. His engravings influenced subsequent painters of the Golden Age of Dutch painting such as Rembrandt . They are examples of the importance of printmaking in the Burgundian-Habsburg Netherlands of their time.

Although it can be seen that Frans Crabbe produced his popular themes for a wide market, only a few multiple copies of his work have survived.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Max J. Friedländer: Nicolas Hogenberg and Frans Crabbe the painters of Mechelen . In: Yearbook of the Prussian Art Collections 42nd volume, (1921), pp. 161–168
  2. ↑ cf. B. Segger: The Landsknecht in the mirror of Renaissance graphics around 1500 - 1540 (dissertation). Bonn 2003

literature

  • A. Bartsch: Le Peintre Graveur . Vienna 1803-1821, Volume VII pp. 527-534 & Volume VIII p. 5.
  • AE Popham: Engravings and Etchings of Frans Crabbe van Espleghem . In: The Print Collector's Quarterly 22.2 (1935) pp. 93-115 & 22.3 (1935) pp. 195-211
  • AM Hind: A Short History Of Enqravinq & Etching . London; 1908 p. 90
  • M. Matile (ed.): The prints of Lucas van Leydens and his contemporaries. Holdings catalog of the graphic collection of the ETH Zurich . Basel 2000

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personal data
SURNAME Crabbe, Frans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frans Crabbe van Espleghem; Master with cancer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Flemish engraver of the region's early Renaissance
DATE OF BIRTH around 1480
PLACE OF BIRTH Mechelen
DATE OF DEATH 1553
Place of death Mechelen