Jan Adam Kruseman
Jan Adam Kruseman (born February 12, 1804 in Haarlem ; † March 17, 1862 there ) was a Dutch portrait painter and art teacher.
He was born the son of Jan Alexander Kruseman (1774-1829) and Dorothea Steenkamp (1769-1844). He came from a family of artists. At the age of fifteen he went to Amsterdam in 1819 and enrolled at the Tekenacademie (drawing academy), where he received his first lessons from his cousin Cornelis Kruseman . From 1822 to 1824 he studied in Brussels under the future director of the Académie royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles François-Joseph Navez and with Jacques-Louis David .
At the age of 26 he was appointed director of the Royal Academy van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam in 1830 . Three years later he was commissioned to paint a portrait of Tsar Alexander I , which was intended as a present for Grand Duchess Anna Pawlowna von Holstein-Gottorp-Romanow, who was married to Crown Prince Wilhelm .
After Wilhelm ascended the throne, Kruseman was commissioned to paint official portraits of the royal family, including six portraits of the king.
Together with the engraver André-Benoit Taurel (1794-1859) and the architect Marinus Tétar van Elven (1803-1883) he became one of the founders of " Arti et Amicitiae " in 1839 . In 1844 he was made a Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion .
He was married from 1826 and had seven children, including Jan Theodoor Kruseman, who became a well-known landscape painter. His nephew, the later theologian and poet Petrus Augustus de Génestet (1829–1861), lost his parents at an early age and from 1836 lived with the Kruseman family.
Kruseman created over 500 portraits, mainly of nobles and wealthy citizens.
He had at least 44 students between 1826 and 1848. The best known were David Bles , Henricus Engelbert Reyntjens , Moritz Calisch and Jozef Israëls .
literature
- Kruseman, Jan Adam . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 22 : Krügner – Leitch . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1928, p. 22 .
- Jan Adam Kruseman . In: Biografisch portaal van Nederland (digitized version ) .
- Pieter A. Scheen : Lexicon Nederlandse Beeldende Kunstenaars 1750–1950 , biography. (Digitized version) .
Web links
- Jan Adam Kruseman. Biographical data and works in the Netherlands Institute for Art History (Dutch)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kruseman, Jan Adam |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch portrait painter and art teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 12, 1804 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Haarlem |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 17, 1862 |
| Place of death | Haarlem |