Karel Slabbaert

Karel Slabbaert:
The boy with the bird

Karel Slabbaert (* around 1619 in Zierikzee ; † before November 6, 1654 in Leiden ) was a Dutch painter and draftsman. The artist worked from 1634 to 1654 in Middelburg . His work includes portraits, genre scenes and still lifes.

Life

Little is known about the artist's life and only a small number of his works - mostly genre scenes - have survived. Slabbaert was born around 1619 in Zierikzee in the Dutch province of Zeeland . He married in Amsterdam in 1645 and settled in Middelburg. Here he was head of the Guild of St. Luke in 1653 . The painter Abraham Borm († 1668) was one of his students . In his group portrait with soldiers ( Mauritshuis Den Haag) he depicted himself in the foreground. The portrait of a painter ( Städel , Frankfurt am Main) may also be a self-portrait of the artist. Karel Slabbaert died in Leiden in 1654 and was buried in Middelburg on November 6th of that year.

Works in public collections (selection)

Portrait of a Man , 1653, Mauritshuis, The Hague
Soldiers and other people in the ruins of a castle , around 1650, Mauritshuis, The Hague
The boy with the bird , Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum , Braunschweig
Saint Luke , Gemäldegalerie , Berlin
Portrait of a painter with a skull , Städel, Frankfurt am Main

literature

Slabbaert, Karel . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 31 : Siemering – Stephens . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1937, p. 128 .
EMM van Oyen-Kastner: Een Teruggevonden Children's portrait Door Karel Slabbaert . In: Oud Holland . tape 67 , no. 3 , 1952, ISSN 0030-672X , p. 177-178 , JSTOR : 42710550 .
Kurt J. Müllenmeister: Karel Slabbaert, an interior and portrait painter from Middelburg (1619–1654) . In: Die Weltkunst . tape 42 , 1972, ISSN 0043-261X , pp. 1344 .

Web links

Commons : Karel Slabbaert - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Slabbaert (Karel) . In: Catalogus der schilderijen, miniaturen, pastels, omlijste teekeningen, enz. in the Rijks-Museum in Amsterdam . Roeloffzen-Hübner & van Santen, Amsterdam 1909, p. 247 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

personal data
SURNAME	Slabbaert, Karel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch painter and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1619
PLACE OF BIRTH	Zierikzee
DATE OF DEATH	1654
Place of death	Suffer

[1] Slabbaert (Karel) . In: Catalogus der schilderijen, miniaturen, pastels, omlijste teekeningen, enz. in the Rijks-Museum in Amsterdam . Roeloffzen-Hübner & van Santen, Amsterdam 1909, p. 247 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).