Gerrit Willemsz Horst

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Gerrit Willemsz Horst (* 1602 in Muiden Netherlands ; † October 15, 1652 in Amsterdam ) was a Dutch painter from the Rembrandt school . He became known for his fruit still lifes and Christian-Biblical depictions.

Horst, Gerrit Willemsz. Horst: Isaac blesses Jacob ( The blessing of Jacob )

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In E. Gemar-Koeltzsch's lexicon of Dutch still life painters, it says about Gerrit Willemsz Horst, who was one of Rembrandt's first pupils: “In the still lifes of Gerrit Willemsz. Horst, which can probably be assigned to the late period, the painter orients himself stylistically on Willem Kalf . Tables with white napkins, on which fruits, ham, lobster, dishes, cups and glasses are distributed, stand in front of dark grounds. Horst's pictures can be characterized as representative graphs, which sometimes convey a certain indecision in terms of the number of objects and the composition of the representation. GW Horst is looking for a creative middle ground in which the orthogonals and diagonals, the fullness and emptiness of the picture equally, are taken into account. "

Horst's conspicuous way of painting curtains as if they were poured and the tendency towards green-brown has also led to paintings around 1900 that were sometimes incorrectly attributed to Bol or Rembrandt to be attributed to the rather unknown Horst, for example a picture in the Irish National Gallery happened.

In the 1921 General Artist Lexicon by Hans Wolfgang Singer, however, it is said that Gerrit Willems Horst was a student of Anthony Hendrick and became known through two pictures: The Blessing of Jacob and The Grandmother Skipio . It is correct that he learned from Hendricks in 1625, but switched to Rembrandt from 1635.

The painting Still Life with Fruit with Gold Cup was exhibited in 1880 at the Royal Academy of Arts in Berlin. The painting later came to the Berlin museums from the Adolph Thiem collection and probably burned in 1945.

literature

  • Hofstede de Groot: Horst, Gerrit Willemsz . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 17 : Heubel – Hubard . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1924, p. 533-534 .
  • Werner Sumowski: paintings by the Rembrandt students. Pfälzische Verlagsanstalt, Landau 1983, ISBN 3-87629-017-1 ; English edition Volume 5, 1981, pp. 2831-2844.
  • Erika Gemar-Koeltzsch: Dutch still life painter in the 17th century. In: Luca Bild-Lexikon in 3 volumes. ISBN 3-923641-41-9 .
  • Walter Armstrong: A Claim for Gerrit Willemsz Horst. In: The Burlington Magazine . 20, 1912, pp. 250-263.
  • Abraham Bredius: Gerrit Willemsz. Horst. In: Oud-Holland. 50, 1933, pp. 1-8.
  • Wilhelm Rheinhold Valentiner: On Gerrit Willemsz's work. Horst's. In: Oud-Holland. 50, 1933, pp. 241-249.

Web links

Commons : Gerrit Willemsz. Horst  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Walter Armstrong: A Claim for Gerrit Willemsz Horst . In: The Burlington Magazine . tape 20 : October 1911 to March 1912 . London, S. 258–263 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  2. ^ Hermann A Müller, Hans Wolfgang Singer: Horst, Gerrit Willemsz . In: General artist dictionary: life and works of the most famous visual artists . tape 2 , part 1: Gaab – Janinet . Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt aM 1922, p. 207 ( de.scribd.com - reading sample).
personal data
SURNAME Horst, Gerrit Willemsz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Horst, Gerrit Willemszoon; Horst, Gerrit Willemsz. van der
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch painter of the Rembrandt school
DATE OF BIRTH 1602
PLACE OF BIRTH Muiden
DATE OF DEATH October 15, 1652
Place of death Amsterdam