Jan Gerritsz van Bronckhorst

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Jean van Bronchorst by Pieter Bailliu after a self-portrait, published in Cornelis de Bie 's Golden Cabinet in 1662.

Jan Gerritsz van Bronckhorst , Bronchorst , or Bronkhorst (* 1603 in Utrecht , † before December 22, 1661 in Amsterdam ) was a painter and etcher of the Dutch Golden Age . Today he is counted among the Utrecht Caravaggists .

biography

After Arnold Houbraken , van Bronckhorst started his apprenticeship with the glass engraver Jan Verburgh in Utrecht at the age of eleven. He worked there for 18 months before refining his knowledge of the craft in two other Utrecht glassworks and going on a major trip in 1620. Because of the glass painting he was employed by the glass artist Pieter Mathys in Arras , where he also stayed for a year and a half. Then he went on to Paris , where he worked in the glassworks of the glass painter Chamus, who was well known in his time. In 1622 he returned to Utrecht, where Cornelis van Poelenburgh taught him to paint. He married Catalijntje van Noort in 1626. He visited the studio of Gerard van Honthorst , a founder of the Utrecht Caravaggists . In 1647 he moved to Amsterdam, where he designed the windows and organ gates of the Nieuwe Kerk , almost the only interior in a Calvinist Reformed church where figurative painting was sometimes allowed, completed in 1655. He is the last of the great glass painters in Holland has been described. In contrast to his work for churches , his secular paintings show the influence of Caravaggio and thus also a striking appeal to sensuality. His sons Jan Jansz van Bronckhorst and Gerrit Jansz van Bronckhorst as well as Caesar van Everdingen are among his students .

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  • Musical company on a balustrade

  • The matchmaker

  • A concert

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Arnold Houbraken: Jan van Bronkhorst . In: De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderesse. Pp. 231–233, 2nd edition, 1753 (1st edition 1718–1721; reprint from 1979)
  2. ^ Wilhelm Schmidt: Bronchorst, Jan Gerritsz . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie 3, pp. 353–354, 1876.

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personal data
SURNAME Bronckhorst, Jan Gerritsz van
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bronchorst, Jan Gerritsz; Bronkhorst, Jan Gerritsz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1603
PLACE OF BIRTH Utrecht
DATE OF DEATH before December 22, 1661
Place of death Amsterdam