Max Rooses
Max Rooses (born February 10, 1839 in Antwerp , † July 15, 1914 there ) was a Belgian art writer and literary critic .
life and work
Max Rooses went to school in his hometown of Antwerp until 1858, then studied philosophy and literature at the University of Liège and then attended the royal Athenaeum in Antwerp from 1860 to 1864. During the latter studies, he received his doctorate in literature from the University of Liège in 1863. From 1864 he taught Dutch language and literature at the Athenaeum of Namur and from 1866 at that of Ghent . On July 8, 1876, he was appointed curator of the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp, which opened the following year .
Rooses dedicated a biography ( Levensschets van Jan Frans Willems , Gent 1874) to the Belgian writer Jan Frans Willems , among others , but was above all an important Rubens researcher. He edited Titres et portraits gravès d'après Rubens (Antwerp 1877) and in 1877 he took part in the organization of the 300-year Rubens exhibition directed by Henri Hymans . For his book Geschiedenis der Antwerpsche schilderschool (Antwerp 1877–79; German by Franz Reber , Munich 1881) he won the first prize in the competition announced by the Antwerp city council in 1879. He wrote the monograph Christophe Plantin, le typographe anversois (Antwerp 1882) about the Franco-Flemish printer and publisher Christoph Plantin . In 1889 he was elected a member of the Académie royale de Belgique .
After Rooses had written Petrus Paulus Rubens en Balthasar Moretus in 1884 , he published L'œuvre de PP Rubens (5 volumes, Antwerp 1886-92) and wrote, first in German, the monograph Rubens' Leben und Werke (1890 ), which also appeared in French and Dutch editions in 1903. After the death of Charles-Louis Ruelens (1890) he was entrusted with the further publication of the Correspondance de Rubens . After the exhibition of paintings by Anthony van Dyck held in Antwerp in 1899, Rooses published a biography of the artist, which also contains images of his works ( Vijftig meesterwerken van Antoon van Dijck , Amsterdam 1900). In the study Jacob Jordaens ' leven en werken (Antwerp 1906; German Stuttgart 1906) he sought to present a new evaluation of the work of this Flemish painter. In his book Flandre (Paris 1913) he gave an overview of the history of Flemish art. He retired in early 1914 and died shortly afterwards at the age of 75 in his hometown.
literature
- Rooses, Max , in: Biographisch woordenboek der Noord- en Zuidnederlandsche letterkunde , 1888–91
- Rooses, Max . In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon , 6th edition, 1902-08, vol. 17, p. 133.
- Ulrich Heinen: Art history as a function of populist ideology. Max Rooses (1839–1914) - «Art historian and leader in the Flemish camp». In: Critical Reports , 2009, Issue 1, pp. 55-94, ISSN 0340-7403 .
Web links
- Rooses, Maximilian “Max” , in: Dictionary of Art Historians
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rooses, Max |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rooses, Maximilian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian art writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 10, 1839 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Antwerp |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 15, 1914 |
| Place of death | Antwerp |