Hermanus Willem Koekkoek

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Hermanus Willem Koekkoek (born January 7, 1867 in Amsterdam , Kingdom of the Netherlands ; † September 9, 1929 there ) was a Dutch military - landscape and marine painter , draftsman , watercolorist and illustrator .

Life

Hermanus Willem Koekkoek came from the Dutch Koekkoek family of painters . The artist was the eldest of the two sons of the painter Willem Koekkoek and Johanna Hermina , and the grandson of the painter Hermanus Koekkoek the elder and great-grandson of the painter Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek . His brother was the painter Marinus Adrianus Koekkoek the Younger .

His father taught him painting. He lived and worked first in Amsterdam, then from 1887 to 1891 in London , where his uncles Hermanus Koekkoek the Younger and Barend Hendrik Koekkoek ran an art trade. He then went back to Amsterdam, but returned to London in 1901. In the early 1920s he finally returned to his hometown, where he died in 1929 at the age of 62.

As a painter of military scenes, Hermanus Willem Koekkoek was one of the few Dutch painters who served the genre of military painting. Many of his works are on military operations during the Franco-Prussian War from 1870 to 1871, for which he did meticulous historical research. Preferably he painted attacks by cavalry, but also the everyday life of soldiers. As an illustrator he worked for the British publications The Illustrated London News , The Sketch and The Royal Magazine , for which he made drawings of military operations in the Second Boer War (1899-1902) in South Africa, but was also known as a draftsman at the royal court. During the First World War , his illustrations appeared regularly in military magazines. In London and after his return to the Netherlands, Koekkoek worked for Williams & Sutch: The United Arts Gallery , which sold his pictures to the United States and Canada , among others . In addition to his military views, he painted impressionistic landscapes, cityscapes and some still lifes. He showed his work at Dutch art dealers such as Oldenzeel in Rotterdam and Th. Flachs in Amsterdam. Some of his works can be seen today in the Koninklijk Nederlands Legermuseum in Delft .

Koekkoek had a daughter, Louise Johannah de Layen , Louise Hermina Carry May Koekkoek (1898–1989), who became a sculptor and painter and, among other things, made a portrait bust of him. The bust is in the BC Koekkoek house in Kleve.

Works (selection)

  • The attack , around 1890

  • Général Kouropatkine , Russian general, published June 12, 1904

  • Cleaning the swords , around 1890

  • Hussars , around 1890

literature

Web links

Commons : Hermanus Willem Koekkoek  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Old masters and 19th century art. Christie's, Amsterdam 2012. With family tree on p. 122.
  2. ↑ Biographical against: Hermanus Willem Koekkoek. In: RKD-Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis
  3. ↑ a b Hermanus Willem Koekkoek. In: Simonis & Buunk, Ede
  4. ^ Pieter A. Scheen: Lexicon Nederlandse beeldende kunstenaars, 1750–1950. Gravenhage 1981. p. 277
  5. ↑ a b Mariëtte Simonis et al .: De familie Koekkoek: four generations of schildertalent - een collectie schilderijen en aquarellen uit de period 1800 to 1950 van de voornaamste leden van het Hollandse schildersgeslacht. Simonis & Buunk, Ede 2003. p. 34.
  6. ↑ Obituary notice Louise Hermina Carry May Koekkoek. In: Historische Kranten, Erfgoed Leiden en Omstreken. Leidsch Dagblad, January 25, 1989, p. 4
  7. ↑ Biographical gegevens: Louise Hermina Carry May Koekkoek. In: RKD-Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis
personal data
SURNAME Koekkoek, Hermanus Willem
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch military, landscape and marine painter, draftsman, watercolorist and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam , Kingdom of the Netherlands
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 1929
Place of death Amsterdam , Kingdom of the Netherlands