Frans Snyders

Anthonis van Dyck : Portrait of Frans Snyder and his wife (detail)

Dog hunting for a bear

Frans Snyders (baptized November 11, 1579 in Antwerp , † August 19, 1657 in Antwerp) was a Flemish painter.

Life

Frans Snyders was a pupil of Pieter Bruegel the Younger . Also Hendrick van Balen is one of their teachers. He stayed mainly in his hometown Antwerp. There he ran a large studio and did commissioned work with numerous students, including Jan Fyt .

plant

He created great still lifes and also made a name for himself in animal painting . His favorite depictions also include hunting, game and poultry. He often worked with Rubens on this. The correct assignment of the countless works by Frans Snyders is difficult to this day. Snyders and Rubens believed that their works could be recognized by their unmistakable style, and therefore rarely signed. Wrong attributions occurred because successors (e.g. Jan Fyt) copied motifs from their teachers and included them in their catalogs of preliminary drawings. The authorship of her works, which is still controversial to this day, ranges between the irrefutable statements by Bordley and the monograph by Hella Robels, which only makes purely stylistic assignments. Robels thinks something like “F. Snyders ”signed picture Dead fish guarded by a dog for the work of another painter.

Fruit stand

Typical of Frans Snyder's large-format early creative phase are his works “Dog Hunt for a Bear” and “Dog Hunt for a Bear”. (formerly the Jacob Christian Jacobsen collection )

A bust of him made by Rauch is in the Walhalla in Donaustauf .

literature

• Joseph Eduard Wessely :  Snyders, Franz . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 34, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1892, p. 527 f.
• Hella Robels: "Frans Snyders", Deutscher Kunstverlag 1989, ISBN 978-3422060524
• Charles Rogers Bordley: "Rubens ou Snyders?", La Nef de Paris, Edition, Paris

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Der Spiegel 47/1956: Rubens: The Atelier Head"
2. ↑ Peter van den Brink (Ed.), Schattengalerie. The lost works of the painting collection. Edited by Anna Koopstra, Adam C. Oellers, Thomas Fusening and Michael Rief with the assistance of Christine Vogt, Dirk Tölke and Heinrich Becker , Hirmer-Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-7774-4305-8 , pp. 194–196
3. ^ "Winkel, V. & Magnussen: Art i Private Eje, Bind III, Aage Pioras Forlag, Kobenhaven 1945"
4. ↑ { https://www.hampel-auctions.com/a/Frans-Snyders-1579-Antwerpen.html?a=114&s=592&id=549314 Frans Snyders, dog hunting for a bear

Web links

Commons : Frans Snyders  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Frans Snyders in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by Frans Snyders at Zeno.org .
• Frans Snyders at artfacts.net
• Selection of works by the BBC
• Works in the Graphic Collection of the Louvre, Paris (French)