Jonas Suyderhoef

Emperor Ferdinand III. , 1686 (HGM)

Jonas Suyderhoef , also Jan Suyderhoef or Jonas Suyderhoff , (* around 1613 - † May 9, 1686 in Haarlem ) was a Dutch engraver who made reproductions of contemporary paintings.

life and work

Little data is known of Suyderhoef's life. He was a son of Andreas Pietersz. Suyderhoef, the secretary of the first Dutch ambassador in Constantinople and nephew of Pieter Hasselaers . The Haarlem painter and engraver Pieter Soutman is believed to be his teacher . After 1664 his name appears a few times in the directory of the Haarlem painters' guild , and in 1678 he held the office of dean there .

Suyderhoef mastered the technique of copperplate engraving perfectly and achieved almost the quality of etchings with finely graduated gray values . His reproductions based on Frans Hals stand out because of the perfection with which he could only approximate Hals' characteristic brushstroke with the use of a burin .

He was therefore in great demand among the painters of his time, as their works could then be made known only through this reproduction technique. He worked with over 50 artists, including Peter Paul Rubens , Rembrandt , Anthony van Dyck , Frans Hals , of whom he alone engraved 12 portraits, as well as Gerrit van Honthorst , Adriaen van Ostade , Joachim von Sandrart , Gerard ter Borch and Jan Lievens . Knowledge of Caravaggio's pictures , who were of great importance to the Carravagists of the Netherlands, was also promoted through his reproductions.

Around 140 engravings of his numerous reproductions have been preserved, including the engraving based on Gerard ter Borch's historical painting The Peace of Münster .

Works (selection)

Portrait of Emperor Ferdinand III. , 1686, etching, approx. 40 × 27 cm.

literature

Johann Wussin : Jonas Suyderhoef. Directory of his engravings . Leipzig 1861 ( digitized ).
Johann Wussin: Jonas Suyderhoef. Son oeuvre gravé, classé et décrit . Traduit de l'allemand, annoté et augmenté by Henri Hymans . Brussels 1862 ( digitized ).
Joseph Eduard Wessely : Suyderhoef, Jonas . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 37, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, p. 246.
Suyderhoff, Jonas . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 32 : Stephens – Theodotos . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1938, p. 328 .

Individual evidence

↑ Copy in the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum , Vienna: Manfried Nahrungsmittelsteiner, Manfred Litscher (eds.): Das Heeresgeschichtliche Museum in Wien . Vienna / Graz 2000, p. 24.

Web links

Commons : Jonas Suyderhoef - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

personal data
SURNAME	Suyderhoef, Jonas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Suyderhoef, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch engraver
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1613
DATE OF DEATH	May 9, 1686
Place of death	Haarlem

[1] Copy in the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum , Vienna: Manfried Nahrungsmittelsteiner, Manfred Litscher (eds.): Das Heeresgeschichtliche Museum in Wien . Vienna / Graz 2000, p. 24.