Johannes Voorhout

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Johannes Voorhout ( Jacobus Houbraken , 1721)

Johannes Voorhout (* 1647 in Uithoorn ; † 1723 Amsterdam) was a Dutch painter .

Live and act

Johann Voorhout: Hausliche Musikszene, 1674. Depicted are presumably Johann Adam Reincken (at the harpsichord ) and Dieterich Buxtehude , possibly also Johann Theile . On the left of the picture is probably the painter himself

The painter Johannes Voorhout was the son of the Amsterdam master watchmaker Cornelis Voorhout. Johannes Voorhout's apprenticeship began with five years in Gouda , followed by another five years in Amsterdam with Johannes van Noort. In 1670 Voorhout married in Amsterdam. In the next few years he worked in Hamburg . In 1707 he moved back to Amsterdam, where he died in 1723. Voorhout is a typical representative of Amsterdam history painting at the end of the 17th century. He also created genre pieces in the style of Caspar Netscher and Gerard ter Borch . The collections of the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum include a large painting by Voorhout and three small works that the painter created for Petronella Oortman's dollhouse. His painting Domestic Music Scene from 1674 is in the Museum of Hamburg History . The picture - an allegory of friendship - not only shows the Hamburg organist and composer Johann Adam Reincken , but is also the only picture that shows the composer and organist Dieterich Buxtehude .

literature

  • Hermann Arthur Lier:  Voorhout, Johannes . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 40, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, p. 298.
  • Gisela Jaacks : Domestic music scene by Johannes Voorhout - To a newly acquired painting in the Museum of Hamburg History. In: Contributions to German folklore and antiquity, 17 (1978).
  • Christoph Wolff : The Hamburg Buxtehude picture. A contribution to the musical iconography and the circle of Johann Adam Reinken. Originally in: Antjekathrin Graßmann , Werner Neugebauer (Hrsg.): 800 years of music in Lübeck. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1982, pp. 64-79. Abridged version in: Musik und Kirche 53 (1983), pp. 8-19; Updated version with an afterword in 1988 in: Arnfried Edler and Heinrich W. Schwab (eds.): Studies on the music history of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck. Kieler Schriften zur Musikwissenschaft 31 (1989), pp. 44–62.
  • Kerala J. Snyder : Dieterich Buxtehude. Life-work-performance practice. Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel 2007, p. 139 ff.

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personal data
SURNAME Voorhout, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1647
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam , Netherlands
DATE OF DEATH 1723
Place of death Amsterdam , Netherlands