Frans Hals the Younger

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Frans Hals the Younger , actually Frans Franszoon Hals , also Frans Hals II , (baptized May 16, 1618 in Haarlem ; † April 1669 there ) was a Dutch painter of the so-called Golden Age . He developed artistically and probably also stylistically in the immediate vicinity of his father Frans Hals .

Life

Frans Hals the Younger was a son of the painter Frans Hals and his second wife Lysbeth Reyniers. Little is known about his life today. He was trained by his father and probably worked in his style. On November 29, 1643 he married Hester Jansdr. van Groeneveld.

Artistic creation

The artistic work of the younger Frans Hals is completely in the dark. All attributions to him are currently based on speculation and can neither be substantiated by documents nor critically of style. For a long time, researchers believed that they could assign all the images signed with his father's monogram that, according to the experts, did not achieve his father's high quality standard. A procedure that is now regarded as completely unfounded. Furthermore, an attempt was made to identify works by the younger Frans Hals in a series of paintings and drawings signed with FSRHALS or FRHLS , although the works are clearly not related to the works of the Haarlem School and especially the art of the older Frans Hals. It was not until 1917 that Abraham Bredius published the artist who was hiding behind this signature: François Ryckhals .

In addition, consideration was also given to assigning the younger Frans Hals the few paintings by his father that are signed with a FHF and dissolving this monogram as Frans Hals Franszoon . This thesis is rejected by other researchers, however, and the monogram is interpreted as an abbreviation for Frans Hals Fecit . However, if the first interpretation is correct, it would mean that the works of the younger Frans Hals are so close to those of his father that they can hardly be distinguished.

For a long time, the focus of research was on a picture depicting a young warrior in the St. Petersburg Hermitage (oil on canvas, 113 × 82.5 cm - Inv.-No. 986) , which with FH or according to other information F. Hals is signed, but the spelling differs from the father's manner. The picture is considered the work of a good and able artist. The Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie rejects this ascription to the younger Frans Hals, although this is also often considered possible in literature.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Cornelis Hofstede de Groot : Hals, Frans II . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 15 : Gresse – Hanselmann . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1922, p. 534 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  2. ^ Abraham Bredius: De schilder François Ryckhals. In: Oud Holland . Volume 35, ISSN  0030-672X , pp. 1-11.
  3. ^ Information from the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie
personal data
SURNAME Hals, Frans the Younger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch painter
DATE OF BIRTH baptized May 16, 1618
PLACE OF BIRTH Haarlem
DATE OF DEATH April 1669
Place of death Haarlem