Pieter Bast
Pieter Bast (* around 1570 in Antwerp ; † March 17, 1605 in Leiden ) was a Dutch draftsman , engraver and cartographer with an impressive oeuvre of medieval city views from a bird's eye view. The high degree of authenticity that characterizes Bast's topographies is always emphasized .
In his youth, Pieter Bast came to Middelburg and Leiden as a religious refugee . In contemporary sources he is referred to as a “artist in chaerten van steden”, which in fact aptly characterizes the focus of his artistic work. Of his cityscapes, the four-sheet bird's eye view of Amsterdam , published between 1597 and 1599, is the most extensive and perhaps the most important work. In 1599 two views of the city of Emden in East Frisia were published . A year earlier he had engraved the plate for the Oldenburg bird show . The views of Leiden and Leeuwarden in Friesland date from 1600 and 1603 respectively.
The archives that have been preserved give little information about his personal fate: on August 31, 1601, he married Aryantje Geryt Schaecken in Leiden, bought a house at the Latin school the following year and died in 1605. He was born in Leiden in the Sint Pieterskerk buried.
literature
- Kurt Asche: The profile views of the cities of Emden and Oldenburg . In: Emder Jahrbuch 79 (1999), pp. 66-78.
- George S. Keyes: Pieter Bast . Canaletto-Verlag, Alphen aan de Rijn 1981.
- Jörg Deuter: The illustrators for the "Oldenburgisch Chronicon" from 1599. Johann Dietrich Schaffer - Jan Diricks van Campen - Pieter Bast - Hans Maes. In: Oldenburger Jahrbuch 99 (1999), pp. 1-18.
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| SURNAME | Bast, Pieter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch draftsman, engraver and cartographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1570 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Antwerp |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 17, 1605 |
| Place of death | Suffer |