Lucas van Uden

Lucas van Uden ( Anthony van Dyck )

Lucas van Uden (born October 18, 1595 in Antwerp , † November 4, 1672 there ) was a Flemish painter and etcher .

Life

Lucas van Uden was the son of Artus van Uden, city painter of Antwerp, and grandson of Pieter van Uden, founder of a manufactory of tapestries and silk in the city. Lucas was probably trained by his father. He was enrolled in the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke in 1626-27 as a “master son”. On February 14, 1627 he married Anna van Woelput (died 1667). On December 31, 1649, he was registered as no longer living in the city. He probably lived elsewhere for a period in 1650.

Works

He is best known for painting landscapes for Rubens and David Teniers the Younger , which they provided with figures.

But he also painted numerous independent landscapes based on motifs from Brabant and Flanders, whose peculiarity is based on a simple and faithful conception. Under Rubens' influence, its color became warmer and richer. The galleries in Dresden, Petersburg, Brussels, Frankfurt a. M., Munich, Antwerp, Berlin, Vienna and others. His landscape etchings (about 30) are executed with an extremely fine observation of nature and a delicate needle.

Works (selection)

• Am Waldbach, 1656, wood, 23 × 35 cm.
• The watermill, canvas, 158 × 181 cm.
• Mountainous beach landscape with an approaching thunderstorm, 1635, wood, 40 × 58 cm.
• Landscape with »Flight to Egypt«, canvas, 57 × 83 cm.
• Landscape with »Rest on the Flight«, 1654, canvas, 57 × 82 cm.
• Landscape with carts, wood, 47 × 73 cm.
• Landscape with the gods' meal, wood, 73 × 117 cm.
• Landscape with woodcutters, canvas, 73 × 122 cm.
• Landscape with reapers, canvas, 40 × 59 cm.
• Winter landscape, wood, 17 × 24 cm.

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  Alpine landscape

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  River panorama

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  River landscape

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  Landscape with Hunters

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Oxford Grove Art: Lucas van Uden (English)

literature

• Hermann Arthur Lier :  Uden, Lucas van . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 39, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1895, p. 128 f.

• Ulrich Haussmann: Lucas van Uden: View of a vast landscape, Lucas van Uden: Coastal landscape rich in trees. In: Rolf Bothe, Ulrich Haussmann (eds.): Goethe's "Picture Gallery". The beginnings of the Weimar art collections . G + H Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-931768-66-X , pp. 218-220.

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