Peeter Neeffs the Elder

Evening mass in a Gothic church, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Peeter Neeffs the Elder (born around 1578 in Antwerp ; died around 1659 there ) was a Flemish painter .

Life

Neeffs is said to have been a student of the architectural painter Hendrick van Steenwyck the Elder , has been active as a painter since 1605 and was accepted as a freelancer in the Guild of St. Luke in Antwerp in 1609 , where he has worked since then and still lived in 1655.

Neeffs signed Nefs, Neffs, Neeffs and Neefs. His numerous pictures in the Louvre in Paris, in the Pinakothek in Munich, in the Museum in Gent, in the Gallery in Dresden and others, mostly interior views of churches, the darkness of which is illuminated by torches and candles, are excellent in the air and Line perspective as well as in the light effects. The treatment is very fine and clean, but not without harshness. Frans Francken , Teniers , Pieter Bruegel and Theodor van Thulden often painted the staffage for him . Many works by him have come down to us.

His son Peeter Neeffs (the Younger) (approx. 1620 - approx. 1675), a pupil of Hendrick van Steenwyck the Younger , flourished around 1650–60 and painted in the same way. His paintings are difficult to distinguish from those of his father.

literature

Joseph Eduard Wessely : Neeffs, Peeter . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1886, p. 364.
U. Härting: Neeffs, Peeter the Elder . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 92, de Gruyter, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-023258-5 , p. 102 f.

Web links

Commons : Pieter Neefs (I) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ U. Härting: Neeffs, Pieter . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 92, de Gruyter, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-023258-5 , p. 103 f.

personal data
SURNAME	Neeffs, Peeter the Elder
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Neeffs, Peeter; Neefs, Peeter (the elder); Nefs, Peeter (the elder); Neeffs, Pieter (the elder); Nefs, Pieter; Neuff, Pieter; Neefs, Peter; Neeffs, Peter; Nefs, Peter; Neuff, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch painter
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1578
PLACE OF BIRTH	Antwerp
DATE OF DEATH	around 1659
Place of death	Antwerp

[1] U. Härting: Neeffs, Pieter . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 92, de Gruyter, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-023258-5 , p. 103 f.