Jan Meerhout

View from Wittevrouwenpoort, Utrecht

Jan Meerhout (also: Jan Meerhoud, Johan Meerhoud ; * before 1630 probably in Gorinchem ; † March 27, 1677 in Amsterdam ) was a Dutch landscape painter of the Golden Age .

life and work

Mountain landscape 1661

Meerhout's art was influenced by the painters Jan van Goyen and Aert van der Neer , whose style can be seen in his landscapes and cityscapes. He married in 1650 and was buried in Amsterdam in 1677. He worked in Heusden , Dordrecht , Utrecht and most recently in Amsterdam. The works ascribed to him include the following paintings:

Street view of Utrecht , Museum Utrecht
Gezicht op de Tolsteegpoort te Utrecht met omgeving. (around 1650) Central Museum Utrecht
Moonlight landscape 1689, Peltzer Collection, Cologne
Mountain landscape 1661 (Johan Meerhout) Amsterdam
River landscape with fortified city 1663 (J. Meerhout) Amalienstift Dessau

Adolf van der Laan made a copperplate engraving of Heusden Castle based on his template.

His name has attracted increased interest in the recent past, when in 2007, after the death of the art dealer Bruno Lohse, a painting by Meerhout was found in his safe at the Zürcher Kantonalbank (ZKB) together with works and works. a. by Claude Monet , Auguste Renoir and Camille Pissarro was secured by the Zurich public prosecutor's office, who were suspected of being looted art from the Nazi era. The painting A View of a City by Meerhout was in the possession of the Jewish collector Alphons Jaffé, who had lived in Berlin, London and the Netherlands. Jaffé had given his collection to a museum in Leiden for safekeeping . There it was robbed in 1942 by the office of Kajetan Mühlmann , a robbery organization of the National Socialists in the Netherlands, which had sold the paintings to leading National Socialists. Until the discovery of Lohse's estate, there was no trace of the paintings from the Jaffé collection.

literature

Meerhoud, Jan . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 24 : Mandere – Möhl . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1930, p. 333 .
Meerhout, Jan . In: Catalogus der schilderijen . Centraal Museum, Utrecht 1933, p. 151 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Alfred von Wurzbach: Meerhoud. Jan Meerhoud or Meerhout, also wrongly E. Meerhoud . In: Dutch artist lexicon; edited on the basis of archival research . Halm and Goldmann, Vienna / Leipzig 1906, p. 129–130 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).

Web links

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

Jan Meerhout , The Golden Age Gorinchem Foundation
Jan Meerhout at Artnet
Jan Meerhout , Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie
Jan Meerhout on biografischportaal.nl
Meerhout, Jan. In: Bénézit : Dictionary of Artists. ( oxfordindex.oup.com ).

Individual evidence

^ Pupil and imitator of Aert van der Neer . In: Cornelis Hofstede de Groot (ed.): Descriptive and critical directory of the works of the most outstanding Dutch painters of the 17th century . tape 7 : Willem van de Velde, Johannes von de Cappelle, Ludolf Bakhuyzen, Aert van der Neer . Paul Neff, Esslingen 1918, p. 520-523, here p. 522 ( uni-heidelberg.de ).
^ River landscape with a fortified city. Lempertz Auction House, accessed December 10, 2019 (British English).
↑ Stefan Koldehoff: The pictures are among us: The business with Nazi looted art. Eichborn, Frankfurt 2009, ISBN 978-3-8218-5844-9 , p. 106 (Jan Meerhoud - View from the river onto a city, books.google.de ).

personal data
SURNAME	Meerhout, Jan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Meerhoud, Jan; Meerhoud, Johan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch landscape painter of the Golden Age
DATE OF BIRTH	before 1630
PLACE OF BIRTH	unsure: Gorinchem
DATE OF DEATH	March 27, 1677
Place of death	Amsterdam

[1] Pupil and imitator of Aert van der Neer . In: Cornelis Hofstede de Groot (ed.): Descriptive and critical directory of the works of the most outstanding Dutch painters of the 17th century . tape 7 : Willem van de Velde, Johannes von de Cappelle, Ludolf Bakhuyzen, Aert van der Neer . Paul Neff, Esslingen 1918, p. 520-523, here p. 522 ( uni-heidelberg.de ).

[2] River landscape with a fortified city. Lempertz Auction House, accessed December 10, 2019 (British English).

[3] Stefan Koldehoff: The pictures are among us: The business with Nazi looted art. Eichborn, Frankfurt 2009, ISBN 978-3-8218-5844-9 , p. 106 (Jan Meerhoud - View from the river onto a city, books.google.de ).