Hendrick van Steenwyck the Elder
Hendrick van Steenwyck (the Elder) (* 1550 in Steenwijk , Overijssel , † before June 1. 1603 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a Dutch architecture - Painters .
Life
Steenwyck came to Antwerp early , where he became a student of Hans Vredeman de Vries and excelled in painting the small interiors of Gothic churches. Like de Vries, he worked in Aachen from 1570, where in 1573 he married Helena, the daughter of the painter Marten van Valckenborch (1535–1610). His first painting is also known from this year in Aachen, it shows the interior of the Aachen Cathedral and is now in the New Schleissheim Palace . In 1577 he returned to Antwerp and was there the Guild of St. Luke at. When he had to leave the Netherlands in 1586 because of religious persecution, he moved to Frankfurt am Main, where he died around 1603.
As an architectural painter, he preferred to depict the interior of Gothic churches and large halls with precise, strict drawings, but with “hard color”. Pictures of him can be found in the galleries of Vienna, Petersburg, Stockholm, Kassel and others.
His son Hendrick van Steenwyck the Younger was also an architectural painter.
literature
- Joseph Eduard Wessely : Steenwijck, Hendrik (the elder) . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 35, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, p. 547 f.
Web links
- (1) Hendrick van Steenwijk (i) ( Memento from February 9, 2005 in the Internet Archive ), In: The Grove Dictionary of Art , Macmillan, 2000, excerpt on artnet.com, in the Internet Archive on archive.org, as of 9 February 2005, accessed July 2, 2012
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| SURNAME | Steenwyck, Hendrick van der Elder |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Steinweig von Kempen, Heinrich; Steenwyck, Heinrich van d. Ä .; Steinwyck, Hendrick van; Steenwijk, Hendrik van; Steenwijck, Hendrik van |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1550 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Steenwijk , Overijssel |
| DATE OF DEATH | before June 1, 1603 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main , Germany |