Piet Leysing
Piet Leysing , baptized Petrus Josephus Leysing (* 1885 in Doornenburg near Bemmel , † 1933 in Düsseldorf ), was a German-Dutch landscape and genre painter from the Düsseldorf School .
Life
Leysing's parents came to Duisburg from the Netherlands at the turn of the century . There he began an apprenticeship as a painter and house painter. During a hospital stay, the doctor treating him recognized his talent for painting and advised him to become a painter. Since the doctor also agreed to finance a degree, Leysing was able to attend the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1903 to 1908 . Julius Paul Junghanns and Peter Janssen the Elder were his teachers there. In order to expand his knowledge, Leysing went on study trips to Holland , Belgium and France . A commissioned work took him to Rees on the Lower Rhine in 1918 , where he initially lived in the Nass family's "Inselgasthof" and later moved to the Huiskes house in the Upper Town. The Bettray house was also one of his places of work in Rees. Plagued by depression, he moved to Düsseldorf in 1932, where he died in 1933.
In memory of Leysing, the city of Rees furnished the Leysing room with eleven of his paintings in the Koenraad Bosman Museum . She also named a street after him.
Works (selection)
Leysing is one of the "Niederrheinmalern" of the Düsseldorf School. His style was influenced by classic Dutch painting. Leysing's preferred subjects were everyday scenes from country life.
- The afternoon tea
- When cleaning vegetables
- Fisherman on the pier
- Pollard willows in the snow
- Interior with couple reading a newspaper
- Fisherman patching his nets
literature
- City of Rees (ed.): Piet Leysing 1885–1933. Oil paintings and etchings . Catalog for the exhibition on the occasion of the artist's 100th birthday in the town hall of Rees, November 6 to 24, 1985, 39 pp.
Web links
- Piet Leysing , auction results on the van-ham.com portal
- Piet Leysing , auction results on the portal artnet.de
- Piet Leysing , data sheet in the rkd.nl portal
Individual evidence
- ^ Stephan Hemmers: The Lower Rhine painter . Article of October 10, 2011 in the portal rp-online.de , accessed on October 23, 2015
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Leysing, Piet |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Leysing, Petrus Josephus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Dutch landscape and genre painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Doornenburg near Bemmel |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1933 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |