Lucas van Valckenborch

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Winter landscape

Lucas van Valckenborch (* 1535 or shortly afterwards in Leuven ; † buried on February 2, 1597 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a Flemish painter .

Life

Lucas van Valckenborch was probably trained in Mechelen , at least he is recorded in the registers of the Guild of St. Luke there. It is not known who his teachers were. In 1564 Jaspar van der Linden was his pupil. In 1566 the Protestant Valckenborch left their hometown together with his brother Marten, Hans Vredeman de Vries and Hendrik Steenwijk the Elder for reasons of faith and went first to Aachen , then to Liège . In Antwerp he came into contact with Archduke Matthias , the governor of the Spanish Netherlands , and entered his service in 1579. When Matthias resigned as governor in 1581, Valckenborch followed him to Linz as a chamber painter . In 1592/93 he moved to Frankfurt am Main , where his brother had been living since 1586. Van Valckenborch was granted citizenship there in 1594 and died in 1597.

Some relatives were also painters: in addition to his brother Marten van Valckenborch , these were also his sons Gillis van Valckenborch and Frederik van Valckenborch .

power

Lucas van Valckenborch was a landscape painter who succeeded Pieter Brueghel the Elder . He preferred to paint seasonal pictures depicting rural work and civic pleasure. In addition, market images were created in the different seasons. The landscapes sometimes appear topographically precise, although they follow the old concept of the so-called “ world landscape ”, ie they are inventions.

Works

"The Burtscheider Valley near Aachen", identified by Hans Königs (1964), previously known as "Landscape on the Middle Maas", 1570
Summer landscape with grain cut , Lucas van Valckenborch, 1585, Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna
Imperial forest walk with the new building in Vienna , 1593, Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna
  • Landscape on the Middle Meuse (Brussels, Royal Museums of Fine Arts , Inv. No. 3358), 1570, oil on panel, 51 × 64.7 cm, identified in 1964 by Hans Königs as "View of Burtscheid near Aachen "
  • Landscape with cattle pasture under trees (Frankfurt am Main, Städelsches Kunstinstitut , inv. No. 1221), 1573, oil on panel, 34.7 × 46.8 cm
  • Mountain landscape with robbers, waterfall and blast furnace (Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum , inv. No. 1067), around 1585, oil on canvas, 113 × 204 cm
  • Summer landscape with grain cut (Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, inv. No. 1060), 1585, oil on canvas, 116 × 198 cm
  • Autumn landscape with fruit harvest (Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, inv. No. 5684), 1585, oil on canvas, 116 × 198 cm
  • Winter Landscape (Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Inv.No. 1064), 1586, oil on canvas, 117 × 198 cm
  • Spring Landscape (Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Inv. No. 1065), 1587, oil on canvas, 116 × 198 cm
  • View of the city of Antwerp in winter (Frankfurt am Main, Städelsches Kunstinstitut, inv. No. 668), 1589–90, oil on panel, 42.2 × 63 cm
  • Imperial forest walk with the new building in Vienna (Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, inv. No. 9863), around 1593, oil on copper, 21 × 36 cm
  • Imperial stroll in front of the Neugebuilding in Vienna ( Wien Museum ), around 1593, oil on canvas, 63.5 × 101.5 cm
  • View of the city of Linz from Pöstlingberg (Frankfurt am Main, Städelsches Kunstinstitut, inv. No. 158), 1593, oil on panel, 23.5 × 36.0 cm
  • Mountainous landscape with a waterfall and a mill (Vaduz, Liechtenstein Collection , inv. No. 563), 1595, oil on panel, 26.8 × 37.5 cm
  • Tower of Babel (Koblenz, Middle Rhine Museum , Inv.No.M 31), 1595 (?), Oil on wood, 42 × 68 cm
  • Tower of Babel (Mainz, Landesmuseum Mainz , GDKE, inv.no.53), around 1595, oil on oak, 42 ​​× 68.3 cm
  • Landscape with Iron Foundry (New Haven, CT, USA, Yale University Art Gallery ), 1580–90, oil on panel

literature

  • Hermann Arthur Lier :  Valckenborch, Lucas van . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 40, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, p. 392 f.
  • Heinz F. Friederichs: The Flemish painter family van Valckenborch in Frankfurt am Main . Frankfurt am Main: Working Group of Family Studies Societies in Hesse, 1955
  • Lucas and Marten van Valckenborch (1535–1597 and 1534–1612). The complete works with a critical oeuvre catalog . Freren: Luca-Verlag, 1990

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Königs, Hans (1964): Burtscheid, the "Unknown Landscape" by Lukas van Valckenborch .- Aachener Kunstblätter , Issue 29: S. 178-192, Aachen

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personal data
SURNAME Valckenborch, Lucas van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Flemish painter
DATE OF BIRTH around 1535
PLACE OF BIRTH Lions
DATE OF DEATH buried February 2, 1597
Place of death Frankfurt am Main