Herman van Swanevelt
Italian Landscape (1643), Rijksmuseum Amsterdam .
Herman van Swanevelt (* 1600 in Woerden near Utrecht , † 1655 in Paris ) was a Dutch painter .
Svanevelt went to Paris in 1623, from there to Rome , where he lived until 1637, and then, after a short stay at home, settled in Paris in 1652, where he became a member of the Academy in 1653 and died in 1655.
He painted Italian landscapes in the manner of Claude Lorrain , which can mostly be found in the galleries of Rome and Florence , but also in those of Paris, Frankfurt am Main , Munich and The Hague . His landscape etchings, of which he left 116, are more outstanding.
literature
- Joseph Eduard Wessely : Swanevelt, Hermann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 37, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, p. 256 f.
- Het zuiden tegemoet. De landschappen van Herman van Swanevelt 1603 - 1655. Albert Blankert. PS Items, Harderwijk 2007, ISBN 978-90-77204-38-2 (exhibition catalog)
- Anne Charlotte Steland: Herman van Swanevelt as an eraser. To the chronology of the drafts and the prints. In: Oud-Holland. Vol. 118, 2005, ISSN 0030-672X , pp. 38-78.
Web links
Commons : Herman van Swanevelt - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Works by Herman van Swanevelt at Zeno.org .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Swanevelt, Herman van |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Swanevelt, Hermann; Herman d'Italie; Svanevelt, Herman; Herman l'Eremita; Hermann the Hermit |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1600 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Woerden near Utrecht |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1655 |
| Place of death | Paris |