Jan van Lintelo

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Jan van Lintelo (* around 1570, † around 1632) was a painter and glass painter from Bocholt .

Some of his pen drawings are in museums in Budapest , Düsseldorf , Munich and Paris . In the town of Bocholt have four of its tacked to see pen drawings.

Jan van Lintelo is mentioned for the first time in 1595 in the city of Bocholt's account book. His earliest surviving drawing is from 1611. His glass paintings from 1624 in the windows of the bay window of the historic Bocholt town hall were destroyed in World War II on March 22, 1945, reconstructed in 1982 by Lucy Vollbrecht-Büschlepp and used in 1983. His templates for cabinet disks are now among the great German mannerist drawings .

Jan van Lintelo was expelled from Bocholt in the turmoil of the Thirty Years War because of his Protestant denomination and probably died in 1632 in exile in the Netherlands.

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