Gillis van Coninxloo

Gillis van Coninxloo (copperplate engraving by Andries Jacobsz Stock )

Forest landscape , Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

Gillis van Coninxloo (born January 24, 1544 in Antwerp , Spanish Netherlands ; † date of death unclear, buried on January 4, 1607 , Amsterdam , Netherlands) was a Flemish painter and is known for his depiction of forest landscapes.

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His father was the artist Jan van Coninxloo and his mother Elisabeth Hasaert. He was apprenticed to the painters Lenaert Kroes and Gillis Mostaert . Coninxloo later traveled to France and Italy, but then returned to Antwerp. In 1570 he became a member of the Guild of St Luke and married Maeyken Robroeck. She bore him three children.

Since Antwerp was besieged by the Spaniards in 1585, Coninxloo decided to leave the city due to religious persecution and go to Zeeland . Finally he settled in Frankenthal in 1587 . He was the most important representative of the Frankenthal painter group, which also included Anton Mirou , Pieter Schoubroeck , Henrick Gijsmans and Hendrick van der Borcht . In 1595 he went to Amsterdam. There he received citizenship in 1597 and became a member of the Twit Lavendel Chamber of Rhetors . In 1603 he married again, namely Geertgen van Eeden, with whom he had a son. He died in Amsterdam, highly respected in artistic circles, in 1607.

His brother Hans von Coninxloo founded the branch of the artist family Coninxloo in Emden .

Works

Gillis van Coninxloo has often been credited with inventing the forest landscape, but that has recently been put into perspective. However, it is of great importance in the characteristics of this Flemish pictorial theme. In his compositions, trees fill the picture frame like an opaque wall. Often, however, Coninxloo opens up this thicket of trees with asymmetrical lines of sight.

literature

Wilhelm Schmidt : Conincxloo, Aegidius van . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 438.
Klaus Ertz: Coninxloo, Gillis III van . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 20, Saur, Munich a. a. 1998, ISBN 3-598-22760-4 , p. 522.
Martin Papenbrock : Landscapes of Exile. Gillis van Coninxloo and the Frankenthal painters (= European cultural studies. Vol. 12). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2001, ISBN 3-412-16100-4 .
Nils Büttner : Landscapes of Exile? Notes on Gillis van Coninxloo and the history of the Flemish forest landscape on the occasion of a new publication . In: Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 66, 2003, pp. 546–580.
Anja Ritter: Hunting in the forest - religious context within Gillis van Coninxloo's late works. Diplomica Verlag, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8428-8606-3 .

Web links

Commons : Gillis van Coninxloo - collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

↑ In art history literature, Jan II has now become Jan I: accordingly, a lot gets mixed up with this artist family due to the same name of the family members.

personal data
SURNAME	Coninxloo, Gillis van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Flemish painter
DATE OF BIRTH	January 24, 1544
PLACE OF BIRTH	Antwerp
DATE OF DEATH	buried January 4, 1607
Place of death	Amsterdam

[1] In art history literature, Jan II has now become Jan I: accordingly, a lot gets mixed up with this artist family due to the same name of the family members.