Jan van Amstel

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Jan van Amstel , portrait by Johannes Wierix

Jan van Amstel or Jan de Hollander (* around 1500 in Amsterdam , † around 1542 in Antwerp ) was a Dutch Renaissance painter.

Life

Jan van Amstel was probably the older brother of the Dutch painter Pieter Aertsen and the brother-in-law of the Flemish painter Pieter Coecke van Aelst . Some similarities in the paintings of Jan van Amstel and Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Ä. are thus explained that Coecke van Aelst was Bruegel's teacher. It is partly assumed that Jan van Amstel is identical to the Braunschweig monogrammist . The abbreviation “JV AMSL” used refers to this.

In 1528 Jan van Amstel moved to Antwerp, where he was admitted to the painters' guild and in 1536 received citizenship of the city. He married Adriane (Elisabeth) van Doornicke, who after his death married the painter Jan (Gillis) van Coninxloo and in her second marriage in 1544 became the mother of the later painter Gillis van Coninxloo .

In his Schilder-Boeck , written in 1604, Karel van Mander describes Jan van Amstel as an outstanding landscape painter who worked with both oil and water colors . Small-format pictures with religious and erotic content are also attributed to him, although the assignment is not clear.

  • Christ and the Pilgrims to Emmaus, Milwaukee Art Museum (c.1540)

  • Saint Christopher

literature

  • Paul Wescher: Jan van Hemessen and Jan van Amstel . In: Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen 12, 1970, pp. 34–59.
  • Amstel, Jan van . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 3, Seemann, Leipzig 1990, ISBN 3-363-00116-9 , p. 301 f.
  • Amstel, Jan van . In: Lexicon of painting from A to Z. Unipart Verlag GmbH. Remseck near Stuttgart, 1993, p. 20. ISBN 3-8122-3392-4

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personal data
SURNAME Amstel, Jan van
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hollander, Jan de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch painter
DATE OF BIRTH around 1500
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH around 1542
Place of death Antwerp