Joachim Wtewael
Joachim Anthonisz. Wtewael (* 1566 in Utrecht ; † August 1, 1638 ibid) was a Dutch painter.
Life
The son of the glass painter Anthonis Jansz. Wtewael (pronounced Utewaal) spent most of his life in Utrecht. Passed on by Karel van Mander , he worked as a glass painter for his father until he was 18 and then worked for two years in the workshop of the painter Joos de Beer (died before 1595). He then went with the Bishop of Saint-Malo , Charles de Bourgneuf de Cucé, first to Padua for two years and then to France for another two years.
When he returned to Utrecht in 1592 he became a master in the “Saddler's Guild”. In May 1595 he married Christina van Halen in Utrecht, with whom he had four children between 1596 and 1607. In 1610 he took part in a revolt of the party of the Orthodox-Calvinist "Contra-Remonstrants" against the Utrecht City Council, which was occupied by the progressive Remonstrants . Wtewael was also a member of the revolutionary city council established on January 25, 1610, which was dissolved on April 28 of this year. In 1611 he was entered in the list of the Guild of St. Luke, founded on September 13th of that year . In 1613 and 1614 he took on two apprentices. He bought a house in 1619. From that year he also appeared as a moneylender. His wife died on April 13, 1629.
On October 1, 1632 Wtewael was again a member of the city council, which had been occupied by the contra-remonstrants since 1618. His son Peter replaced him on October 1, 1636 as a councilor. In 1637 he granted the clergyman Joannes Breyeris a larger loan, which indicates Wtewael's success as a painter. Joachim Wtewael died on August 1, 1638 and was buried a few days later, on August 7, in the Buurkerk in Utrecht.
Wtewaels small-size (21 x 15 cm) painting Holy Family was in the 1990s, the focus of an international legal dispute as the picture until 1945 in the ducal collections in Gotha hung and then as looted art disappeared in the Soviet Union, when Sotheby's auctioned should. In a precedent in 1998, the property of the Federal Republic of Germany was proven and the picture for Schloss Friedenstein was secured.
literature
- Hermann Arthur Lier : Uitewaal, Joachim . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 39, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1895, p. 174 f.
- Anne W. Lowenthal: Joachim Wtewael and Dutch Mannerism (= Aetas aurea 6). Davaco Publishing, Doornspijk 1986, ISBN 90-70288-24-9 .
- Andreas Tacke: The paintings of the 17th century in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum. Inventory catalog. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1995, ISBN 3-8053-1713-1 , p. 284.
Web links
- Search for Joachim Wtewael in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael H. Carl, Herbert Güttler, Kurt Siehr: Art theft in front of court. City of Gotha v. Sotheby's / Cobert Finance SA (= publications on the protection of cultural assets ). de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2001, ISBN 3-11-016688-7 .
- ^ Full text of the judgment
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wtewael, Joachim |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wtewael, Joachim Anthonisz .; Wttewael, Joachim Antonisz .; Uytewael, Joachim Antonisz .; Utenwael, Joachim Antonisz .; Wtenwael, Joachim Antonisz. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1566 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Utrecht |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 1, 1638 |
| Place of death | Utrecht |