Joannes Baers

Flower still life
attributed to Joannes Baer

Joannes Baers , also Joannes Baer or Johannes Baers , (possibly before 1600 in Utrecht ; † after 1641 in Utrecht) was a Dutch painter.

Nothing is known about the origins and training of Joannes Baers. He is documented for the first time as a member of the Guild of St. Luke in Antwerp in 1618/19 . Soon after, however, he seems to have worked again in Utrecht, where he is documented from 1624 and presumably died sometime after 1641. According to the current state of knowledge, he seems to have mainly worked as a still life painter, but two genre paintings by him are also mentioned in an Amsterdam inventory from 1638 . He is probably identical with Jan Baers, who can also be documented, who is said to have painted floral still lifes in the style of Ambrosius Bosschaert and Balthasar van der Ast .

Joannes Baers is one of the lesser known Dutch masters whose work is almost unknown. It was not until the middle of the 20th century that he became tangible as an artist when he found a signed flower still life dated 1629 . Based on this work, a few other, quite similar works were ascribed to him before two more signed still lifes were discovered. These new discoveries, however, raise doubts as to whether he really could have painted all of the works previously attributed to him only from a stylistic point of view.

Works

• Roman glass with flowers and insects , Bonn, Rheinisches Landesmuseum (attributed to)
• Still life with fruits and vase of flowers , Netherlands, Particuliere collectie
• Basket with Flowers and Fruit , 1624 ( auctioned on November 29, 1968 at Lempertz in Cologne)
• Flowers in a faience jug in a niche , 1929 ( auctioned on April 10, 1981 at Christie's in London)
• Bouquet of flowers in a glass vase in a niche , (attributed - auctioned on June 16, 2004 at Dorotheum in Vienna)

literature

• Ernst Wilhelm Moes : Baers, Joannes . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 2 : Antonio da Monza-Bassan . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1908, p. 345 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Laurens J. Bol: Oud-Holland. Volume 71, 1956, pp. 132-153.
• Fritz Gildkuhle, Ingeborg Krueger: Joannes (Jan) Baers (?). In: Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn. Paintings until 1900. Cologne 1982, p. 29 f.
• Sigrid Trauzeddel: Baers, Joannes . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 6, Saur, Munich a. a. 1992, ISBN 3-598-22746-9 , p. 250.