Jan Lievens

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Jan Lievens, self-portrait (around 1630)
Untitled, between 1630 and 1635, Musée du Louvre
Tronie "Old Man in Turban - Sultan Soliman". The same man was also painted by Rembrandt , Gerard Dou and Jacques de Rousseau .

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)

Gallery (selection)

literature

Web links

Commons : Jan Lievens  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ dpa: Spectacular GDR theft: high-quality paintings may have appeared after theft. December 6, 2019, accessed December 6, 2019 .
  2. ^ 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]).
  3. ^ Rijksmuseum Collection
personal data
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