Gerard Johannes Koekkoek

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Gerard Johannes Koekkoek, around 1920

Gerard Johannes Koekkoek , also Gerardus Johannes Koekkoek (born May 27, 1871 in Hilversum , Kingdom of the Netherlands ; † July 12, 1956 ibid) was a Dutch marine painter .

Life

Gerard Koekkoek came from the Dutch artist family Koekkoek . The artist was the son of the painter Johannes Hermanus Barend Koekkoek (1840-1912), grandson of the painter Hermanus Koekkoek the Elder and great-grandson of the painter Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek . He was a student of his father and of Pieter Dupont and Hendrik Willebrord Jansen.

Koekkoek was active as an artist from 1886 until his death in 1956 and worked in Amsterdam, The Hague (1901–1902), Germany and France. With his work he influenced the work of Frits Hes, Johannes Oud, Johannes Bernardus Sleper and Jacob Wolf. He was a member of the Sociëtait Arti et Amicitiae in Amsterdam, the Vereeniging van Beeldende Kunstenaars Laren-Blaricum and the Vereniging van Beeldende Kunstenaars in Hilversum.

plant

Gerard Koekkoek made drawings, etchings, watercolors and lithographs and also worked as a restorer of paintings. As is customary in his family's paintings, he painted port and coastal views of the Dutch North Sea coast, primarily the Zeeland region .

Selection:

  • Ships near the coast of Brittany
  • Cargo boats in the rural canal with people and house decorations, 1942
  • Dutch polder landscape
  • Katwijker Bomschuiten on the open sea
  • Dordrecht, view from the water
  • Bosgezicht
  • View of Dordrecht with the “De Eendrag” windmill, 1899

Exhibitions

Publications

  • Letter from Gerard Koekkoek to Wilhelmus Johannes Maria Antonius Asselberg (1903-1968). VDA inv.nr. 256. 1934.

literature

  • Ulrich Thieme, Felix Becker: General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present. EA Seemann Verlag, Leipzig 1907–1950.
  • Angelika Nollert, Guido de Werd : Barend Cornelis Koekkoek (1803–1862), his family, his school and the BC Koekkoek house in Kleve . Freundeskreis Museum Kurhaus and Koekkoek-Haus Kleve eV (ed.), Kleve 2000, ISBN 3-98056-419-3 .
  • Frank Buunk, Nicole van der Schaaf: Romance rond de familie Koekkoek. Simonis & Buunk, Ede 1994. ISBN 978-9-08007-263-3 .
  • Pieter A. Scheen: Lexicon Nederlandse beeldende kunstenaars, 1750-1950. Gravenhage 1969.
  • Old masters and 19th century art. Christie's, Amsterdam 2012. With family tree on p. 122.
  • A checklist of painters from 1200-1976 represented in the Witt Library. Courtauld Institute of Art, Mansell, London 1978. ISBN 0-72010-718-0 , p. 266.
  • Gerarda Hermina Marius, Geraldine Norman: Dutch painters of the 19th century. Antique Collectors' Club, 1973. p. 51.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Objects from March 24, 2016. ( Memento from December 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: Bares für Rares from March 24, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Koekkoek, Gerard Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Koekkoek, Gerardus Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch marine painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Hilversum , Kingdom of the Netherlands
DATE OF DEATH July 12, 1956
Place of death Hilversum , Kingdom of the Netherlands