Jan Brueghel the Younger

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Village street with pond (summer)

Jan Brueghel the Younger [ ˈbɾøːɣəl ] (born September 13, 1601 in Antwerp ; † September 1, 1678 ibid) was a Flemish landscape , flower and animal painter .

Life

Jan was born in 1601 as the first child of Jan Brueghel the Elder and Isabella de Jode. His mother died two years after he was born. In September 1605 his father married Katharina van Marienburg, with whom he had eight children. Jan did not have a good relationship with the stepmother Katharina van Marienburg. His father is said to have complained to Cardinal Borromeo once that his son , who was traveling through Italy, did not even send greetings to his stepmother in his letters.

The determination of the firstborn must have been from the beginning to continue the family tradition of painting . Along with Rubens, his father was one of the most respected painters of the early 17th century. At the age of ten, little Jan should have started his training in his father's studio .

Journey through Italy

On May 7, 1622 Jan the Younger left his hometown Antwerp, accompanied by several young people, including Philip de Momper , a son of his father's friend Joos de Momper . In Italy, Milan was their first destination. At the end of June, Jan arrived in Milan at the house of Cardinal Borromeo, who was a patron and friend of his father. In October 1622 the journey continued to Genoa . In Genoa he met Anthony van Dyck . In the spring of 1623 he embarked for Sicily against the will of his father and the cardinal . Due to illness he had to leave the island and traveled to Malta , where his health apparently improved. At the beginning of 1625 Jan learned of the death of his father and three of his siblings. In the hospital of Genoa in January spent 17 days because of possible suspicion of Pestinfizierung quarantine ; from Genoa he rode to Milan, arrived there sick and stopped by Cardinal Borromeo. After his recovery he traveled on to Turin , from there via Lyon and Paris to Antwerp.

At the beginning of August 1625 he arrived home and at the age of only 24 became head of his large family. In August 1625, shortly after returning from Italy, Jan had himself registered as a member of the St. Luke's Guild , the association of all painters in the city of Antwerp, as well as in the rhetoric chamber "De Violierene".

marriage

In 1626 he married Anna Maria Janssens, daughter of the painter Abraham Janssens in the Antwerp Cathedral . Groomsmen were the uncle Pieter Brueghel the Younger , also a painter, and the father-in-law Abraham Janssens. There were eleven children from this marriage. Of Jan's eleven children, seven were sons, five of whom also took up the profession of painter.

  • Jan Pieter, the oldest, worked for Demery in Liège
  • Abraham went to Italy at a young age
  • Ambrosius and Philip worked in Paris
  • Jan Baptist, the youngest, later went to his brother Abraham in Naples

In 1630 and 1631 Jan Brueghel the Younger was Dean of the St. Luke Guild; this time is considered the most successful and happiest of his life. After that it became more and more difficult for him to sell the pictures painted in the style of his father. He received renewed upswing and public recognition in 1651 through commissions from the Austrian court, which his brother-in-law David Teniers the Younger , who had been appointed court painter and curator to Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in 1647 , had arranged. Jan Brueghel the Younger died on September 1, 1678 at the age of 77 in his home in Antwerp.

Works (selection)

Allegory of the Tulipomania (from a private collection)
  • Virgin in Paradise. National Gallery of Athens
  • Rest on the flight to Egypt. With figure staffage by Cornelis de Vos. Private collection, Vienna
  • The five senses. Figure staffage by Apshoven. Private collection, Germany
  • Mountain landscape with rider. Figures by Brueghel, landscape by Joost de Momper
  • Air and fire . Oil on oak wood, 52 × 85.5 cm. Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Inv. No. 1997
  • The feeling (Venus and Armor under military equipment) . Oil on panel, 71 × 115 cm. Alte Pinakothek, Inv. No. 4945
  • Allegory of Tulipomania , oil on wood, 30 x 47.5 cm,auctioned in2011 at Im Kinsky Art Auctions in Vienna. Another version is in the Frans Hals Museum as Satire op de Tulpomania (Persiflage of Tulpomania), oil on wood, 31 × 49 cm. Both around 1640.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Im Kinsky (artist index ) , No. 0007

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Brueghel, Jan the Younger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Flemish painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1601
PLACE OF BIRTH Antwerp
DATE OF DEATH September 1, 1678
Place of death Antwerp