Jacob Mason

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Self-portrait, ca.1770

Johann Jacob Maurer (also Johann Jakob Maurer) (born January 15, 1737 in Schaffhausen , † August 30 or August 31, 1780 in Utrecht , Netherlands ) was a Swiss-Dutch painter .

Life

Maurer was probably born on January 15, 1737 as the ninth child of the saddler Hans Caspar Maurer and Anna Margaretha born. Trippel was born in Schaffhausen, Switzerland. He moved to the Netherlands by ship in 1753; On the way the passenger steamer had been stopped by a French soldier outpost with the intention of looting it. However, Maurer, who could speak French, managed to settle the matter peacefully. He settled in Amsterdam , where he obtained citizenship on October 25, 1764. Here he first worked as a plasterer . With Schaffhausen, however, he seems to have maintained at least loose contacts: In any case, on January 30, 1757, the twenty-year-old was duly accepted into the traditional fishermen's guild - and without any special reference to his absence; In addition, until 1770 he owned a property in fishermen's houses, the so-called "gypsum house". He made great progress in Amsterdam at the art academy, where he had registered, and trained the Swiss Johann Heinrich Wüest , among others . In 1762 he had worked his way up to a "member of the first class" and became a teacher at the newly founded art academy in Utrecht, where he had taken up residence. From 1770 until his death in 1780 he also held the position of director or head of the department. In 1769 he was also employed as a teacher at the orphan school of the Foundation Fundatie van Renswoude .

family

Maurer had married Johanna Brevé from Rotterdam on October 30, 1767 . With her he had three sons and three daughters. Johann Heinrich Wüest adopted one of the sons who died as a bricklayer in 1780. He wanted to train him as an artist, but the child died after 18 months.

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Maurer created many landscape paintings in the style of Dutch landscape painting , including in the Amsterdam canal belt . According to encyclopedias, his paintings are “similar”, his style “flat, but praiseworthy coloring” and his character “lovable”.

Few of Maurer's works are known today. A portrait made by him is in the Centraal Museum Utrecht , another in the town hall of Franeker . A portrait of the Society of Patron Jacobs (on which he himself is trained) is exhibited in Petworth , England. An altar painting in the church in Laren was also made by Maurer .

literature

  • Entry: Maurer, Jacob, pp. 497–498; in: New general artist lexicon, Linz a. D., 2nd edition 1907, 9th volume, unchanged reprint of the 1st edition 1835–1852, edited by GK Nagler
  • Entry by Jacob Maurer, pp. 126-127; in: Dutch Artist Lexicon, Amsterdam 1963, Volume 2, L – Z, edited by Alfred von Wurzbach
  • Entry bricklayer, Johan Jacob bricklayer . In: Pieter A. Scheen : Lexicon Nederlandse beeldende Kunstenaars, 1750–1950, M – Z, en Supplement, Gravenhage 1970, 2e printed 1994, p. 23.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Explore Jacob Maurer. Retrieved August 12, 2017 .
  2. ↑ City Archives Schaffhausen: Johann Jakob Maurer (accessed on August 12, 2017)
  3. ↑ a b c New Years Pieces. Edited by the Artists 'Society in Zurich (NF ff .: New Year's Journal of the Artists' Society in Zurich; 1896 ff .: New Year's Journal of the Art Society in Zurich; later: New Year's Journal of the Zurich Art Society). Piece 1 ff. 1805 ff / 19th New Year's Piece 1823 - Life of the painter Heinrich Wüest . 1823 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  4. ^ Karl Schib: Biographies . tape III , no. 46 , 1969, p. 168-174 .
  5. ^ Johann Caspar: History of the best artist in Switzerland; Entry on Jacob Maurer, p. 241; 4th volume, Zurich 1774
  6. ↑ Jattie Enklaar, Hans Ester: Switzerland: between desire and reality, 1992, p. 48
  7. ^ A b Hans Ulrich Wipf: Johann Jakob Maurer. (PDF) Schaffhausen City Archives, 2007, accessed on August 12, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Photo van Herengracht 550a
  9. ↑ resources.huygens.knaw.nl
  10. ↑ Explore Jacob Maurer. Retrieved September 25, 2017 (Dutch).
personal data
SURNAME Mason, Jacob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maurer, Johann Jacob (full name); Mason, Hans Jacob; Mason, Johan Jacob; Murer, Jacob; Maures, J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss-Dutch painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1737
PLACE OF BIRTH Schaffhausen
DATE OF DEATH August 30, 1780 or August 31, 1780
Place of death Utrecht , Netherlands