Jan van Hemessen

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Casual company (around 1545)

Jan van Hemessen (actually Jan Sanders ; * 1500 in Hemiksem near Antwerp , † before 1566) was a Flemish painter .

Life

Hemessen became a pupil of Hendrik van Cleve in 1519 and was a master in 1524. Before 1535 he married Barbara de Fevere, the daughter of a wealthy Antwerp merchant. On January 8, 1539, he bought a house. In 1544 he and three other Antwerp artists had to leave the city because they were suspected of belonging to the Loïsten religious group . In 1548 he was dean of the Guild of Luke in Antwerp. Although the early biographer Karel van Mander wrote that van Hemessen died in Haarlem, there is no evidence to support this statement.

Jan van Hemessen was the father of Catarina van Hemessen .

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The Goldweigher (around 1530)

Even if Hemessen is one of the less well-known Dutch painters of the 16th century, he played an important role in Antwerp painting after the death of Quentin Massys . At times, works by the so-called Braunschweig monogramist Hemessen were ascribed.

Hemessen's works include:

  • The Goldweigher (approx. 1528–29, Berlin, Gemäldegalerie, No. 656A)
  • The Prodigal Son (1536, Brussels, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, no.217)
  • The calling of Matthew (1536, Munich, Alte Pinakothek, no.11)
  • Triptych of the Last Judgment (approx. 1536–37, Antwerp, Church of St. Jacob)
  • Traveler in a brothel (around 1539, Karlsruhe, Staatliche Kunsthalle, no.152)
  • The calling of Matthew (approx. 1539–40, Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, no. 985)
  • The Mocking of Christ (1544, Munich, Alte Pinakothek, No. 1408)
  • The calling of Matthew (approx. 1548, Vienna Kunsthistorisches Museum, No. 961)
  • Judith with the head of Holofernes (approx. 1549–50, Chicago, Art Institute, no. 56.1109)

literature

  • Wilhelm Adolf Schmidt:  Hemessen, Jan van . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, p. 720.
  • Burr Wallen: Jan van Hemessen. An Antwerp Painter between Reform and Counter-Reform. Ann Arbor 1983 (with an overview of Hemessen's works (and their copies) and black-and-white illustrations).

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jan van Hemessen at Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie
personal data
SURNAME Hemessen, Jan van
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sanders, Jan (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Flemish painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1500
PLACE OF BIRTH Hemiksem near Antwerp
DATE OF DEATH before 1566
Place of death Haarlem