Gijsbertus Johannus van den Berg

Gijsbertus Johannus van den Berg , self-portrait, 1794

Gijsbertus Johannus van den Berg , also Gijsbertus Johannes van den Berg (born November 1, 1769 in Rotterdam , † September 4, 1817 there ), was a Dutch portrait and miniature painter , copyist and art teacher .

Life

Mada van Zuylen van Nyfelt , portrait miniature around 1800

Van den Berg received artistic training from the painter Johannes Zacharias Simon Prey (1749–1822) in Rotterdam. He then lived for three years in Antwerp and three and a half years in Düsseldorf and Mannheim , where he copied pictures, especially those by Adriaen van der Werff and Anthonis van Dyck . In 1790 he returned to his hometown. In the same year he became a drawing teacher for the Rotterdam Drawing Association (“corrector van het Tekengenootschap te Rotterdam”). He served as a board member four times in this artists' association. Among his students were his son Jacobus Everhardus Josephus van den Berg (1802–1861, from 1844 director of the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten ), Cornelis Ouboter van der Griendt (1797–1868) and Gillis de Meyer (1790–1867). In Rotterdam he only painted portraits, especially miniatures. He often carried out portraits in black and red chalk. His son, Jacobus Everhardus Josephus van den Berg , also became a painter.

literature

• Pieter Haverkorn van Rijsewijk: Berg, Gijsbertus Johannes van den . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 3 : Bassano – Bickham . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1909, p. 387 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Berg, Gijsbertus Johannus van den . In: Pieter A. Scheen: Lexicon Nederlandse beeldende kunstenaars, 1750-1880 . The Hague 1981, p. 35.

Web links

• Gijsbertus Johannus van den Berg , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )