Joos van Craesbeeck

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Joos van Craesbeeck , also Joos van Craesbeke (* around 1605 in Neerlinter in Brabant , † between 1654 and 1661 in Brussels ), was a Flemish painter and baker.

Life

Joos van Craesbeeck:
The Smoker or The Drinker
Louvre, Paris
possibly a self-portrait

Joos van Craesbeeck began his career as a journeyman with the baker Aert Tielens at the Antwerp castle. There he met Johanna, his master's daughter, whom he married in 1631. From July 31 of the same year he received all rights of a citizen of Antwerp. In 1633 he met the painter Adriaen Brouwer , who was serving a prison sentence at the castle. This taught Craesbeeck to paint. In 1633/34 he was registered with the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke as a shield (en bakker) . Around 1647/48 his son Josephus (Jan) Craesbeeck was also led as an apprentice there. Shortly afterwards, Craesbeeck must have left Antwerp and moved to Brussels, because on March 5, 1651, he registered with the local Guild of St. Luke. In 1653/54 he took on Lucas Viters as an apprentice. Nothing is known about his further life. Only in 1661 can one read from Cornelis de Bie that Craesbeeck had already died without giving any more details.

Works

Although Craesbeeck signed most of his pictures, none of the works known to date is dated. Nevertheless, through stylistic findings, three creative phases of his work can be distinguished, the earliest of which is strongly based on Brouwer's style. While he manages to keep up with Brouwer in terms of subject matter and color scheme, he does not achieve his creative abilities in the implementation of created scenarios. In his second phase he largely retained the pictorial themes, but said goodbye to the typical Brouwer colors and used more luminous colors, which he initially used against dark, then increasingly against light backgrounds. His figures lost their rural character and took on more elegant, urban features. In addition to the peasant scenes, religious themes now also appeared in his pictures. Its third phase begins around 1650. Until then, he had preferred compositions in which the action was placed in the center of the picture, but now he moved it further and further to the edge. At the same time, his figures now often seem a bit disproportionate because they are smaller and therefore appear more massive.

Joos van Craesbeeck usually signed his pictures with C or CB , on some pictures he also used the initials JVCB . So far only one picture is known that he shared with J. v. Craesbecke signed.

Selected Works

  • Antwerp, Royal Museum of Fine Arts
    • The argument in the cellar.
    • Tavern scene.
    • The five senses.
    • Quarrel in front of the inn
  • Berlin, Gemäldegalerie
    • Farmer with a jug.
    • The tired wanderer. (attributed)
  • Bremen, art gallery
    • Tavern scene.
  • formerly Bremen, Kunsthalle
    • Self-Portrait (Allegory of Superbia). (Outsourced in 1943 and since then missing)
  • Brussels, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts
    • Retorikgesellschaft.
  • Budapest, Szépmüvészeti Múzeum
    • The conversation.
    • Drinking company.
  • The Hague, Stichting Nederlands Kunstbezit
    • Fighting peasants.
  • Dijon, Musée des Beaux Arts
    • The brawl of the comedians.
  • Essen-Bredeney, Villa Huegel
    • Harnschau scene.
  • Karlsruhe, State Art Gallery
    • The temptation of Saint Anthony.
    • Portrait of a man with a fur hat and a clay pipe. (attributed)
  • Kassel, Old Masters Picture Gallery
    • Carousing company in front of an inn.
  • Liberec, Oblastní gelerie
    • Farmers in a farmhouse.
  • Linz, Canon Monastery of St. Florian
    • The Bethlehemite child murder.
  • Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum
    • Interior with card players.
  • Madrid, Prado Museum
    • The marriage contract.
    • Burlesque scene.
  • Neuburg an der Donau, Neuburg State Gallery
    • Village pub.
  • Paris, Musee National du Louvre
    • The smoker.
    • The mussel eaters.
  • Philadelphia, Museum of Art
    • Interior with peasants smoking. (attributed)
  • St. Petersburg, Hermitage
    • The drinker.
  • Sibiu, Brukenthal Museum
    • The doctor's visit.
  • St. Paul im Lavanttal, Benedictine monastery
    • Feast
  • Vienna, picture gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts
    • Farmers in front of a village inn.
  • Vienna, Art History Museum
    • Soldiers and women.
    • Farmers in the tavern.
    • Beggar with bandaged arm. (attributed)
    • Beggar. (attributed)
    • Beggar in the snow. (attributed)
    • Beggar girl. (attributed)
  • Vienna, Liechtenstein Museum
    • The lute concert.
  • Wrocław, Muzeum Narodowe
    • Genre scene with a woman reading a letter.

literature

Web links

Commons : Joos van Craesbeeck  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Friedrich v. Zglinicki : Uroscopy in the fine arts. An art and medical historical study of the urine examination. Ernst Giebeler, Darmstadt 1982, ISBN 3-921956-24-2 , p. 122 f.
personal data
SURNAME Craesbeeck, Joos van
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Craesbeke, Joos van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Flemish painter
DATE OF BIRTH around 1605
PLACE OF BIRTH Neerlinter , Brabant
DATE OF DEATH between 1654 and 1661
Place of death Brussels