Frans Verbeeck (painter)

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Frans Verbeeck (* around 1510 in Mechelen , Herrlichkeit Mechelen , Burgundian Netherlands ; † July 24, 1570 in Mechelen, Spanish Netherlands ) was a Flemish painter and engraver .

Frans Verbeeck: Hekeling van bazige vrouwen en pantoffelhelden [ Commanding women and their slipper heroes ], around 1550
The fool trade

Life

Frans is one of the oldest among the numerous painters with the name Verbeeck. He is considered a student of Frans Crabbe . He became a master and in 1563 succeeded Pieter Brueghel the elder dean of the Guild of St. Luke in Mechelen. His brother Philipp Verbeeck also became a member of the Guild of St. Luke in 1525.

Verbeeck painted grotesque, satirical and moralizing pictures as the successor to Hieronymus Bosch . According to Thieme-Becker , Karel van Mander assigned pictures from Verbeeck to Jan Mandyn in the 16th century . In Mechlin Catherine's Church , therefore, hung the picture parable of the vineyard with ghosts . There was also a saint Christopher with ghost figures in Mechelen . Verbeeck also painted some humorous peasant weddings and a winter picture.

The picture attributed to Frans Verbeeck, The Fool's Trade , was auctioned in 2014 for 3 million euros at the Dorotheum in Vienna . A smaller workshop copy entitled The Mockery of Human Follies was sold there in 2007 for 160,000 euros.

literature

Web links

Commons : Frans Verbeeck  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Verbeeck, Frans . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 34 : Urliens – Vzal . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1940, p. 224 .
  2. ↑ Olga Kronsteiner: Entertaining trade with stupidity , in: Der Standard , October 17, 2014
  3. ↑ a b Nicole Scheyerer: Little fools ensure full coffers. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . October 25, 2014, p. 15.
  4. ↑ Auction record: fools picture for over 3 million , heute.at , October 22, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Verbeeck, Frans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Verbeek, Frans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Flemish painter
DATE OF BIRTH around 1510
PLACE OF BIRTH Mechelen , Glory Mechelen , Burgundy Netherlands
DATE OF DEATH July 24, 1570
Place of death Mechelen , Spanish Netherlands