Jacques Carabain
Jacques François Joseph Carabain (aka Jacob Frans Jozef Carabain ; born February 23, 1834 in Amsterdam ; † January 2, 1933 in Schaerbeek ) was a Dutch - Belgian painter . He mainly created city and building views in the style of " Romantic Realism ".
Life
Jacques Carabain was a student of Valentin Bing and the Amsterdam Art Academy . He specialized in the representation of cityscapes, but also painted, especially at the beginning of his career, seascapes and landscapes.
Carabain lived, studied and worked in Amsterdam until around 1856. After studying art, he traveled through Europe and finally settled in Schaerbeek, Belgium. In 1880 Jacques Carabain received Belgian citizenship. From 1885 he made further trips through Australia and New Zealand.
Alongside François Stroobant , Jacques Carabain was one of the most popular and successful painters of cityscapes in Belgium in the 19th century. His motifs included not only cities in Belgium and the Netherlands, but also in Germany, Austria, Italy, France and other countries.
Carabain had a preference for depicting medieval and baroque city scenes, with an emphasis on picturesque milieus: old churches, historic buildings and lively marketplaces, populated with brightly dressed people who go about their daily business there.
An exact dating of his works is often difficult. Carabain used to put the date and signature on a label on the back of the paintings. Since the labels have disappeared in many cases, the period of their creation can usually only be given imprecisely.
When the cityscape of Brussels was significantly changed during the period of industrialization through extensive building projects, the Brussels mayor commissioned him to preserve the pre-industrial city for posterity. From 1894 to 1897 Carabain painted the cityscapes of “old” Brussels in a series of watercolors .
From March 1 to December 31, 2011, the “ Museum van de Stad Brussel ” dedicated an exhibition to the watercolorist Jacques Carabain, in which 59 watercolors showed the historical Brussels of the Belle Époque .
literature
- Paul Piron: De Belgische beeldende kunstenaars uit de 19de en 20ste eeuw . Art in Belgium, Brussels 1999, ISBN 90-76676-01-1 .
- Jacques Carabain . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 16, Saur, Munich a. a. 1997, ISBN 3-598-22756-6 , p. 292.
- Patrick Berko, Viviane Berko: Dictionnaire des peintres belges nés entre 1750 et 1875 . Laconti, Brussels 1981.
- Willem G. Flippo: Lexicon of the Belgian romantic painters . International Art Press, Antwerp, 1981.
Web links
- Jacques Carabain on the website of the “Museum van de Stad Brussel” , accessed on January 8, 2012
- Images by Jacques Carabain on ArtRenewal.org , accessed January 8, 2012
Individual evidence
- ↑ Barry York: Our multicultural heritage, 1788-1945: an annotated guide to the collections of the National Library of Australia . National Library Australia, 1995, p. 35, ISBN 0-642-10640-1
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Carabain, Jacques |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Carabain, Jacques François Joseph; Carabain, Jacob Frans Jozef |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch-Belgian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 23, 1834 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Amsterdam |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 2, 1933 |
| Place of death | Schaarbeek |