Pieter Aertsen

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Pieter Aertsen (called Lange Pier because of its size; * around 1509 in Amsterdam ; † 1575 there ) was a Dutch painter.

Market woman with a vegetable stand , 1567, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

Life

Aertsen became a student of the painter Allart Claesz in Amsterdam at an early age . After his apprenticeship, he wandered through the Netherlands for a long time . Aertsen settled in Antwerp as a freelance painter around 1530 and was accepted into the St. Luke's Guild as a full member in 1535 . In their directory of members he traded under the name "Langhe Peter, schilder". From this time on he signed his works with a "trident" and his initials.

When he was granted Antwerp citizenship in 1542, he was able to marry Kathelijne Beuckelaer, a relative of his pupil Joachim Beuckelaer , in the same year . Aertsen was in Antwerp until 1556 and mostly painted genre pictures and religious representations. Since most of his clients came from Amsterdam, Aertsen and his family also moved there around 1555. He died there in 1575 at the age of about 66 and was buried on June 3, 1575.

The painters Aert Pietersz , Dirck Pieters and Pieter Pietersz were his sons.

The genre of market and kitchen pictures created by Aertsen had a decisive influence on Flemish still life painting. Many of his altarpieces, however, were destroyed in the iconoclasm in 1566 ; but also in later wars, large parts of his artistic work were destroyed.

Works

literature

  • L'art gourmand : Still life for the eye, culinary art and gourmets from Aertsen to Van Gogh . Essen: Verl. Glückauf, 1997. ISBN 3-7739-0675-7
  • Gerard T. Lemmers: Pieter Aertsen . The Hague: Schwartz, 1990. ISBN 90-6179-083-2
  • Keith P. Moxey: Pieter Aertsen, Joachim Beuckelaer and the rise of the secular painting in the context of the reformation . New York: Garland, 1977. ISBN 0-8240-2715-9

gallery

  • Market scene (Wallraf-Richartz-Museum Cologne)

  • Market scene (Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna)

  • Butcher stall with Escape to Egypt (Uppsala University art collection)

  • Peasants at the stove (Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp)

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personal data
SURNAME Aertsen, Pieter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Long Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch painter
DATE OF BIRTH around 1509
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam , Netherlands
DATE OF DEATH buried June 3, 1575
Place of death Amsterdam , Netherlands