Nicolaes Gillis

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Set table with bread, cheese, etc. a. (Nicolaes Gillis)
Set table with bread, cheese, etc. a.
Nicolaes Gillis , 1611
oil on wood
59 × 79 cm
Privately owned

Nicolaes Gillis (* Antwerp ; † 1632 (or after) Haarlem ) was a Dutch still life painter . Variants of his name are Nicolaes Gillisz. , Claes Jilliesz. , Claes Jelisz. , Nicolas. Gillis .

biography

Nicolaes Gillis was born in Antwerp and probably moved to the northern Netherlands with his parents . There is evidence that he stayed in the North Dutch city of Haarlem from 1612 to 1632. Gillis married Tanneken Abeels from Bruges in Haarlem in 1615 . In 1622 he is mentioned exclusively as a painter of flowers in a file from Haarlem. Nicolas Gillis died in Haarlem in 1632 or shortly afterwards .

Art historical importance

Very few paintings by Nicolaes Gillis have survived that are stylistically very close to his painter colleague Floris van Dyck . His paintings are counted among the banquet pieces (also: Banketjes or Ontbijtjes ). As with banketje or Ontbijtje almost all paintings are meant, however, that pose a laden with food and dishes panel, would be a more sophisticated term for the paintings as they Dyck and Gillis created poster . Floris van Dyck probably had the strongest style-forming force in this context , which is why it must be assumed that Nicolaes Gillis was influenced by his fellow painter in Haarlem. The paintings by Floris van Dyck and Nicolaes Gillis had a strong influence on the following generation of painters. They paved the way for a new kind of banquet piece - Het Monochrome Banketje . Aside from the display boards, Gillis also painted a hunting still life and some Flemish -looking floral still lifes similar to those of Clara Peeters .

Works

title Dating Dimensions technology place Remarks swell
Set table with bread, cheese, etc. a. 1611 59 × 79 cm Oil paint on a wooden panel Private ownership, Netherlands signed: Gillis Fecit / A ° 1611 Lammers, Grimm, Web Gallery of Art
Still life with a roman and a basket of fruit on a table 17th century 50.3 x 64.7 cm Oil paint on canvas Private ownership, Netherlands - RKD
Still life with fruits, cheese, Jan Steen jug, salt vat on a table with a white damask cover after 1614 (1615–1650) 62.3 x 94.6 cm Oil paint on a wooden panel Richard Green Art Dealers, London Attribution doubted by FG ​​Meijer ( RKD ) RKD
Flowers in a porcelain vase after approx. 1618 (1601–1632) 29.2 x 22.9 cm Oil paint on copper plate Christie's Art Dealers , London signed lower left: N Gillis RKD
Still life with strawberries in a wanli bowl, a roman, a spoon and scattered fruits on a table with a white napkin 1610-1635 19 × 31 cm Oil paint on wooden panel (oak) Privately owned previously attributed to Floris van Schooten, current attribution by FG ​​Meijer ( RKD ) RKD
Still life with booty, eggs, pastries and drinking vessels on a table with a white tablecloth 1610-1619 73.5 × 96 cm Oil paint on canvas Privately owned current (possible) attribution by FG ​​Meijer ( RKD ) RKD

literature

reference books

Monographs and exhibition catalogs

  • Ingvar Bergström: Dutch still-life painting in the seventeenth century. Translated from the Swedish by Christina Hedström and Gerald Taylor. Faber & Faber, London 1956.
  • Pieter Biesboer (inter alia): Pieter Claesz: (1596 / 7-1660), Meester van het stilleven in de Gouden Eeuw. (Exhibition catalog Frans-Halsmuseum Haarlem 2005). Uitgeverij Waanders BV, Zwolle 2004, ISBN 90-400-9005-X .
  • Martina Brunner-Bulst: Pieter Claesz .: the main master of the Haarlemer still life in the 17th century. Critical oeuvre catalog. Luca-Verlag, Lingen 2004, ISBN 3-923641-22-2 .
  • Sybille Ebert-Schifferer: The history of the still life. Hirmer, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7774-7890-3 .
  • Claus Grimm: Still life. The Dutch and German masters. Belser, Stuttgart (inter alia) 1988, ISBN 3-7630-1945-6 .
  • Norbert Schneider: Still life. Reality and symbolism of things; the still life painting of the early modern period. Taschen, Cologne 1989, ISBN 3-8228-0398-7 .
  • APA Vorenkamp: Bijdrage tot de geschiedenis van het Hollandsch stilleven in de 17 eeuw: proefschrift the Verkrijging van den graad van doctor in de letteren en wijsbegeerte aan de Rijks-Universiteit te Leiden. NV Leidsche Uitgeversmaatschappij, Leiden 1933.
  • NRA Vroom: A modest message as intimated by the painters of the "Monochrome banketje". Volume 1 and 2, Interbook International, Schiedam 1980, Volume 3, Wilson DMK, Nuremberg 1999.
  • NRA Vroom: De Schilders Van Het Monochrome Banketje. Kosmos, Amsterdam 1945.

Essays & Articles

  • Joseph Lammers: Fasting and Enjoyment. The set table as a theme of still life. In: Gerhard Langemeyer, Hans-Albert Peeters (Hrsg.): Still life in Europe. (Exhibition catalog Westphalian State Museum for Art and Cultural History Münster & State Art Hall Baden-Baden 1980). Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe, Münster 1979, pp. 402-429.

Remarks

  1. ↑ The biographical information about Nicolaes Gillis comes from Fred G. Meijer: Gillis, Nicolaes , unless otherwise noted . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 54, Saur, Munich a. a. 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-22794-3 , p. 208.
  2. ↑ Fred G. Meijer, Adriaan van der Willigen: A dictionary of Dutch and Flemish still-life painters working in oils. 1525-1725. Primavera Press, Leiden 2003, p. 92.
  3. ↑ Claus Grimm: Still life. The Dutch and German masters. Belser, Stuttgart (et al.) 1988, p. 81.
  4. ↑ Dutch uitgestalde stilleven
    A. PA Vorenkamp: Bijdrage tot de geschiedenis van het Hollandsch stilleven in de 17 eeuw: proefschrift ter Verkrijging van den graad van doctor in de letteren en wijsbegeerte aan de Rijks-Universiteit te Leiden. NV Leidsche Uitgeversmaatschappij, Leiden 1933, p. 24 f.
    NRA Vroom: De Schilders Van Het Monochrome Banketje. Kosmos, Amsterdam 1945, p. 10; Claus Grimm: Still life. The Dutch and German masters. Belser, Stuttgart (et al.) 1988, p. 81.
  5. ^ Martina Brunner-Bulst: Pieter Claesz .: the main master of the Haarlem still life in the 17th century. Critical oeuvre catalog. Luca-Verlag, Lingen 2004, p. 145.
  6. ^ NRA Vroom: De Schilders Van Het Monochrome Banketje. Kosmos, Amsterdam 1945, p. 42; Ingvar Bergström: Dutch still-life painting in the seventeenth century . Translated from the Swedish by Christina Hedström and Gerald Taylor. Faber & Faber, London 1956, pp. 98ff .; Pieter Biesboer (inter alia): Pieter Claesz: (1596 / 7-1660), Meester van het stilleven in de Gouden Eeuw. (Exhibition catalog Frans-Halsmuseum Haarlem 2005). Uitgeverij Waanders BV, Zwolle 2004, p. 15.
  7. ↑ Joseph Lammers: Fasting and Enjoyment. The set table as a theme of still life. In: Gerhard Langemeyer & Hans-Albert Peeters (Hrsg.): Still life in Europe. (Exhibition catalog Westphalian State Museum for Art and Cultural History Münster & State Art Hall Baden-Baden 1980). Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe, Münster 1979, p. 407. Fig. 213.
  8. ↑ Claus Grimm: Still life. The Dutch and German masters. Belser, Stuttgart (et al.) 1988, p. 81. Fig. XIX.
personal data
SURNAME Gillis, Nicolaes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gillisz., Nicolaes; Jilliesz., Claes; Jelisz., Claes; Gillis, Nicolas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch still life painter
DATE OF BIRTH before 1612
PLACE OF BIRTH Antwerp
DATE OF DEATH after 1632
Place of death Haarlem