Gerard Seghers
Gerard Seghers (written variant: Geerard Seghers; born March 17, 1591 in Antwerp , † March 18, 1651 in Antwerp) was a Flemish painter .
Live and act
Seghers was a student of Abraham Janssens . After he was appointed master in 1608/09, Seghers went on a study trip to Italy and Spain from 1611 to 1621. He was interested in the Caravaggio School. He studied the works of Caravaggio, Bartolomeo Manfredi , who was 10 years his senior, and Gerard Honthorst in Rome . He then stayed in Spain for a long time before returning to his homeland and using his studies in his works. From 1625 he devoted himself to the work of Peter Paul Rubens , whose style he reveals in his 1630 paintings. He created numerous altarpieces for church institutions in Belgium , Cologne and the Jesuit branches . The interpretation of the Carravggio school can be found in his moral pictures. Many of his works no longer exist or are only handed down in engravings. His son was Jan Baptist Seghers.
There are numerous altarpieces by him in the Belgian churches, some of which betray Rubens' influence . His main work is the Adoration of the Magi (1630, in the Frauenkirche in Bruges ).
His Adoration of the Three Kings in Mexico is in the Mannerist style.
His brother Daniel Seghers was a Flemish still life painter who, in addition to his own works, made copies of the pictures by Rubens and his master student Anthonis van Dyck .
Works (selection)
- Philip IV appoints Prince Ferdinand governor of the Netherlands , 1635, oil on canvas 146 × 185 cm, Rubens House , Antwerp
Places of his works
- Amsterdam : museum
- Antwerp: At. Andreas, St. Antonius, St. Karl Borromeo, St. Jakob, Royal Museum, Platinum Museum
- Berlin : German Historical Museum - Zeughaus, Mars and Venus , Grunewald Castle
- Besançon : Museum
- Bohemia : Raudnitz Castle
- Bruges : Church of Our Lady , Nazareth Convent
- Dunkirk : St. Elegius
- Ghent : St. Bavo, St. Michael, St. Nicholas, St. Peter
- Cologne: St. Mary's Assumption, Museum
- Copenhagen : supply
- Lille : museum
- Leuven : St. Peter
- Madrid : museum
- Marseille : museum
- Paris : museum
- Rome: Galeria Corsini
- Solothurn : Capuchin Church
- Tournai : museum
- Vienna : Museum
literature
- Dorothea Bieneck: Gerard Seghers. 1591-1651; Life and work of the Antwerp history painter . Luca, Lingen 1992, ISBN 3-923641-39-7 .
- Joseph Eduard Wessely : Seghers . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 33, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, pp. 607-609.
- Lit. Thieme-Becker
Individual evidence
- ↑ * 1589 after Pierer 1857
- ^ Teacher: Balen , Pierer 1857.
- ↑ Klaus Bußmann , Heinz Schilling : 1648 - War and Peace in Europe. Catalog volume and two text volumes, Münster 1998 [Documentation of the Council of Europe exhibition on the 350th anniversary of the Peace of Westphalia in Münster and Osnabrück.] Münster / Osnabrück 1998, ISBN 3-88789-127-9 , p. 136
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Seghers, Gerard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Flemish painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 17, 1591 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Antwerp |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 18, 1651 |
| Place of death | Antwerp |