Hermanus Koekkoek the Elder

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Hermanus Koekkoek the Elder, around 1850, portrayed by Dominicus Anthonius Peduzzi

Hermanus Koekkoek the Elder (born May 13, 1815 in Middelburg , Kingdom of the Netherlands , † November 5, 1882 in Haarlem ) was a Dutch landscape and marine painter . He occasionally signed his works with the artist name Jan van Couver . In literature he is also referred to as Hermanus Koekkoek I because of the similarity of his name to his son .

Life

Hermanus Koekkoek came from the Dutch artist family Koekkoek . He was the fourth son of Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek and Anna van Koolwijk. His brothers were Barend Cornelis , Marinus Adrianus and Johannes Koekkoek . He was the father of Hermanus the Younger , Willem , Johannes Hermanus Barend and Barend Hendrik Koekkoek , as well as Anna Elisabeth (* 1842), Elisabeth Johanna Maria; (* 1845) and Johanna Maria (* 1848).

In 1830 Koekkoek began painting in Durgerdam . He attended the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Amsterdam , where he was trained as a painter, draftsman and lithographer. From 1832 to 1834 he worked in Amsterdam, then again in Durgerdam until 1836 and then again in Amsterdam until 1857. As a result, he moved the place of his work to Nieuwer-Amstel (today Amstelveen ). In 1873 he returned to Amsterdam, where he worked as an artist until 1882. He died in Haarlem that same year.

Like his father and brothers, he is known for landscapes and marine views. He followed the family tradition and taught his sons to paint. Another student was Willem Gruyter junior (1817-1880). In 1841 he joined the Schilderkundig Genootschap artists' association in Rotterdam .

Works (selection)

Koekkoeks preferred city and harbor views as well as river and sea landscapes as motifs for his pictures.

  • Shipping on troubled seas , 1842

  • By the river on a sunny afternoon , 1864

  • Loading a two-masted truck near Groningen on a quiet day , 1865

  • A successful fox hunt , before 1882

Honors

In 1875 he won the gold medal at the Sociëtait Arti et Amicitiae exhibition .

literature

  • Pieter A. Scheen: Lexicon Nederlandse beeldende kunstenaars, 1750–1950. Gravenhage 1981, p. 277.
  • A checklist of painters from 1200-1976 represented in the Witt Library. Courtauld Institute of Art, Mansell, London 1978. ISBN 0-7201-0718-0 .
  • Jan Bervoets, Rody Chamuleau: Het dagboek van Alexander Ver Huell 1860-1865. Zutphen 1985, pp. 56, 144.
  • Toni Wappenschmidt: Marines and landscapes of the Dutch romanticism. In: Die Weltkunst, Edition 62, 1992, pp. 541–543.
  • R. de Leeuw, B. Tempel: Het Romantiek boek. Zwolle 2006, p. 350.
  • Old masters and 19th century art. Christie's, Amsterdam 2012. With family tree on p. 122.

Web links

Commons : Hermanus Koekkoek the Elder  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerrit van Hezel: Het schildersgeslacht Koekkoek en de Zuiderzee (1800-1956). In: Schokland Museum, March 11, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Koekkoek, Hermanus the Elder
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Couver, Jan van (stage name); Koekkoek, Hermanus II.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch landscape and marine painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1815
PLACE OF BIRTH Middelburg , Kingdom of the Netherlands
DATE OF DEATH November 5, 1882
Place of death Haarlem , Kingdom of the Netherlands