Jan Lievens
Jan Lievens also Lievens de Oude , Livius Johanis le Vieux , or Johannis Livens , other spellings of Lievens Lieversz (oon), Lyrins, or Leyrens (* October 24, 1607 in Leiden ; † June 4, 1674 in Amsterdam ) was a Dutch painter and draftsman.
life and work
Lievens was born the son of a trimmers . He learned from 1616–1618 with Joris van Schooten and 1618–1620 with Rembrandt's teacher, the history painter Pieter Lastman in Amsterdam. When he was 14 he came back to Leiden. From 1625 he had a workshop with Rembrandt. Constantijn Huygens became aware of the two painters and invited them to paint a work. Lievens continued to develop under the influence of Rembrandt, but Rembrandt also imitated him several times. From 1632 to 1635 he worked in England, where he painted King Charles I , the Queen and many distinguished people. Rembrandt had meanwhile moved to Amsterdam.
After three years he settled in Antwerp , where he joined the Guild of St. Luke in 1635 , married and had a son baptized. In 1644 he settled in Amsterdam. When his wife died, he married a sister of Jan de Bray in 1648 . Lievens worked in The Hague in Huis ten Bosch , and in Berlin in Oranienburg . He returned in 1655 and lived in Amsterdam until his death. In 1672, the Rampjaar , schools and shops were closed, and the art market also collapsed. When he died, Lievens owed so much that his children refused to inherit it.
Lievens was certainly under the influence of Rembrandt, but later he was also affected by the art of Van Dyck and Rubens . He changed his style several times.
Of the history paintings, only Scipio's abstinence in the town hall in Leiden and the Visitation of Mary in the Louvre can be ascribed to him with some certainty. Portraits of his hand are owned by the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Alte Pinakothek in Munich , the Vienna Belvedere and the Berlin Museum . His etchings (around 60) are inferior to Rembrandt's painterly power, but achieve it in the formation of chiaroscuro.
The work Alter Mann by Jan Lievens has been lost since it was stolen from the exhibition in Schloss Friedenstein in 1979 during the art theft in Gotha . On December 6, 2019, it was announced that the painting may have surfaced again and has been in the care of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin since September 2019 , where it will be authenticated by the Rathgen research laboratory .
Collections (selection)
- Alte Pinakothek , Munich
- Berlin Museum
- New Residence (Bamberg)
- Amsterdam Museum
- Scottish National Gallery
- Rijksmuseum Amsterdam , Amsterdam
- Vienna Belvedere , Vienna
- Duke Anton Ulrich Museum , Braunschweig
Gallery (selection)
The Feast of Esters , from 1625, North Carolina Museum of Art , Raleigh
Constantijn Huygens around 1626–27, humanistic aristocrat and secretary to governor Prince Frederik Hendrik , Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Portrait of Rembrandt van Rijn around 1630, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
The young Prince Karl Ludwig with his tutor Volrad von Plesse , 1631
Polymath Anna Maria von Schürmann from 1649. National Gallery , London
The sacrifice of Abraham. (Around 1638) Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum
literature
- Joseph Edward Wessely : Livens, Jan . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, p. 21 f.
- Hans Schneider : Jan Lievens. His life and his works. De eerven F. Bohn, Haarlem 1932. Improved reprint with supplement by REO Ekkart. BM Israël, Amsterdam 1973.
- Jan Lievens, a painter in the shadow of Rembrandt . Exhibition in the Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum Braunschweig (1979).
Web links
- Literature by and about Jan Lievens in the catalog of the German National Library
- Jan Lievens on Artcyclopedia with many redirects
Individual evidence
- ↑ dpa: Spectacular GDR theft: high-quality paintings may have appeared after theft. December 6, 2019, accessed December 6, 2019 .
- ^ Konstantin von Hammerstein: Pictures by Holbein and Brueghel the Elder: Paintings from the largest GDR art theft reappeared . In: Spiegel Online . December 6, 2019 ( spiegel.de [accessed December 6, 2019]).
- ^ Rijksmuseum Collection
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Lievens, Jan |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch painter |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 24, 1607 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Suffer |
DATE OF DEATH | June 4, 1674 |
Place of death | Amsterdam |