Pieter Holsteyn the Elder

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Pieter Holsteyn the Elder: Six Beetles (watercolor and gouache on paper)
Dromedary (brush drawing and watercolors)

Pieter Holsteyn the Elder (* around 1580 in Haarlem ; † July 1662 there ) was a Dutch painter , draftsman and printmaker . He is the father of Pieter Holsteyn the Younger and Cornelis Holsteyn .

Pieter the Elder worked in Haarlem , where he had been a member since 1634 and chairman of the Guild of St. Luke in 1640 and 1642 . He worked as a glass painter. But he was best known for his small-format animal pictures. The attribution of the younger works is controversial as his son Pieter the Younger started in the same workshop in Haarlem and used the same signature. Pieter the Elder died in 1662 and was buried in the Haarlem Janskirche on July 23 of that year.

Holsteyn's animal studies describe the animals precisely and meet scientific standards. Today they are represented in many collections. During Holsteyn's lifetime, the Amsterdam lawyer Laurens van der Herm (1621–1678) had a collection of 665 drawings.

literature

  • Thea Vignau-Wilberg: Alderhande Kruypende en Vgende Gedierten exhibition catalog of the Daxer and Marshall Gallery, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-9815810-0-3 .
  • Samuel Ampzing: Beschryvinge ende lof der stad Haerlem in Holland Haarlem 1628, p. 373.
  • Michael Bischoff: A menagerie on paper. The Dutch animal illustrator Pieter Holsteyn the Younger (around 1614–1673) Weser Renaissance Museum Castle Brake, Lemgo 2011, pp. 28–31, ISBN 978-3-9807816-6-4 .
  • Michael Bischoff: Article Holsteyn (Holsteijn), Pieter, d.Ä. In: Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon Vol. 74. De Gruyter, Munich, Leipzig, 2012, p. 321.
  • Abraham Bredius: artist inventories. Documents on the history of Dutch art in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, vol. 6. Den Haag 1919, pp. 1932–1935.
  • Wim GM Cerutti: Het stadhuis van Haarlem. Hart van de stad Haarlem 2001, pp. 423-435.
  • CJ Gonnet: Haarlemsche Glasschrijvers In: Feest-Bundel, Dr. Abraham Bredius aangeboden the eighth of April 1915 Amsterdam 1915, pp. 61–78.
  • Zsuzsanna van Ruyven-Zeman: Stained glass in the Netherlands before 1795 (Corpus Vitrearum. The Netherlands IV) Amsterdam 2011.

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personal data
SURNAME Holsteyn, Pieter the Elder
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Holsteyn, Pieter the Elder; Holsteyn, Pieter I.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch painter, draftsman and printmaker
DATE OF BIRTH around 1580
PLACE OF BIRTH Haarlem
DATE OF DEATH July 1662
Place of death Haarlem