Johannes Thopas
Johannes Thopas (born 1625 in Arnhem ; died 1700 in Assendelft , Zaanstad ) was a Dutch draftsman and painter.
Life
Thopas was the son of a doctor. After his death, his mother married the mayor of the Lower Rhine town of Emmerich . He was accepted into the Haarlem guild in 1668 . In 1681 he became a member of the Reformed Congregation there and in 1691 secretary in Assendelft.
Thopas mainly created small-format drawings, portraits and miniatures. He drew with pencil and executed the portraits in Chinese ink. Only about 70 drawings have survived. Several portraits of Peter the Great , who was in Holland in 1697 , have been attributed to him. Individual drawings are in the possession of the Kupferstichkabinett Berlin , 4 portraits at the Kupferstichkabinett Amsterdam , the Albertina Vienna, the Museum Brussels and other collections, as well as seven sheets in the Museum in Zaandijk. Jonas Suyderhoef engraved a portrait of the surgeon Noach Smaltius after a painting by Thopas, which is now in the collection of the Teylers Museum in Haarlem .
The only surviving oil painting shows a deceased girl from the Van Valkenburg family. The picture came from the family's possession in 2002 on loan to the Mauritshuis in The Hague and was acquired by them in 2008.
literature
- Alfred von Wurzbach : Thopas, Johan Thopas or Topas . In: Dutch Artist Lexicon; edited on the basis of archival research . tape 2 : L-Z . Halm and Goldmann, Vienna / Leipzig 1910, p. 710 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Max Ditmar Henkel: Thopas, Johan . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 33 : Theodotos vacation . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1939, p. 82 .
- Eddy Schavemaker: Johannes Thopas - Aachen and Amsterdam . In: The Burlington Magazine . tape 156 , no. 1336 , July 2014, p. 477-478 , JSTOR : 24241844 (English).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Johannes Thopas / miniature painting rheinische-art.de
- ↑ a b c d Max Ditmar Henkel: Thopas, Johan . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 33 : Theodotos vacation . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1939, p. 82 .
- ^ Johannes Thopas ( Memento from March 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), announcement of the exhibition in the Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum , 2014.
- ^ Johannes Thopas , 4 portraits at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
- ↑ Mauritshuis , imstart, accessed on March 13, 2014.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Thopas, Johannes |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Thopas, Johan; Thopas, Jan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1625 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Arnhem |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1700 |
| Place of death | Assendelft (Zaanstad) , Zaanstad |