Hendrick Aerts

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Hendrick Aerts (* between 1565 and 1575; † January 1603 ) was a Flemish painter and draftsman.

Name variants: Hendrick Arts , Henricus Arts , Henricus Arijssel (Aryssel) , Hendrick A. Rijssel (Ryssel)

life and work

Little is known about the origins, training and life of Hendrick Aerts. In ancient literature he was long listed as a Dutch master of Flemish or French origin. Based on a picture formerly in private ownership in Schwedt an der Oder , which was signed “Henricus a Ryssel”, it was assumed that he was perhaps born in Lille (Ryssel is the Flemish name of Lille). The date of birth was assumed to be 1565, which is on a picture signed “HA 1565” in Braunschweig ( Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum ). There the date is on a tombstone, which research has largely interpreted as the artist's date of birth.

An influence from Hans Vredeman de Vries and Dirk van Delen was recognized in his works and it was assumed that Aerts, after an early phase in the southern Netherlands , oriented himself to the north and later also worked there. A possible temporary further stay in Stockholm was considered likely, but could not be proven.

It was ruled out relatively early on that Hendrick Aerts could not be equated with the painter H. Aertsz, who was documented in Amsterdam from 1553 and was buried in the Oude Kerk in 1575 .

Recent research, particularly by Bernard M. Vermet, has largely called into question the previous assumptions about the artist's vita. Vermet suspects Hendrick Aerts from Mechelen . He also suspects that Aerts could have orientated himself to Paul Vredeman de Vries at an early age and was also trained by him. He probably met him in Gdansk between 1592 and 1595 . He then accompanied de Vries, probably from 1596 to 1599, to Prague , where he worked as his assistant. Aerts could have returned to Danzig again from 1599, where he probably died around 1603.

Works

Few pictures of Hendrick Aerts have survived. Research assigns him fewer than ten paintings. The earliest certain work is dated 1600 and the latest work 1602. Apparently he only painted architectural pieces with palace and church interiors, the figurative staffage of which often depict allegories.

  • Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum
    • Imaginary renaissance palace. 1602
  • Braunschweig, Duke Anton Ulrich Museum
    • Inside of a gothic church.
  • The Hague, Bredius Museum
    • Architectural piece with an allegory of death. 1602
  • Whereabouts unknown
    • Allegory of love and death. around 1600/01 (2002 in Paris, Galerie De Jonckh)
    • Marketplace. (in a private collection in Schwedt an der Oder until at least 1913)
    • Inside of a gothic church. (attributed - auctioned on June 7, 1994 by Dorotheum in Vienna)
    • Inside of a cathedral with procession. (auctioned on July 5, 2000 at Bonhams Knightsbridge)

literature

Web links

Commons : Hendrick Aerts  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ In Thieme-Becker (Volume 2) and AKL (Volume 5): Hendrick Arts - Preferred spelling at the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie and in other specialist literature, including museum catalogs: Hendrick Aerts
personal data
SURNAME Aerts, Hendrick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arts, Hendrick; Arts, Henricus; Arijssel, Henricus; Aryssel, Henricus; Rijssel, Hendrick A .; Ryssel, Hendrick A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Flemish painter and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH between 1565 and 1575
DATE OF DEATH January 1603