Roelant Savery

Landscape with birds

Roelant Savery (* 1576 or 1578 in Kortrijk ; † before February 25, 1639 in Utrecht ) was a Flemish painter and etcher .

Life

Roelant Savery was a student of his brother Jakob and of Hans Bol from Amsterdam . In addition, he continued his education following the example of Jan Brueghel the Elder . Among other things, he traveled with Emperor Rudolf II and stayed in the Alps for two years. In 1619 he was accepted into the Guild of St. Luke in Utrecht , where he died in 1639.

He was in the service of Emperors Rudolf II (1552–1612) and Mathias (1557–1619) in Prague . He painted numerous landscapes richly portrayed with people and animals. Pictures of him are in the galleries in Prague (Paradies, 1618), Vienna, Berlin (Orpheus and the Animals), Wiesbaden , The Hague, Utrecht, Petersburg, Dresden and Munich.

Articles about the dodo often mention his painting from 1626, which shows this now extinct bird.

Individual evidence

↑ Josef Schnelle: About the legendary Dodo, in: Süddeutsche Zeitung No. 49, February 28/1. March 2015, p. 63.

literature

Erasmus Kurt: Roelant Savery. His life and works . Dissertation, University of Halle 1908.
Kurt J. Müllenmeister: Roelant Savery. Kortrijk 1576 - 1639 Utrecht. Court painter Rudolf II in Prague; the paintings with a critical oeuvre catalog . Luca-Verlag, Freren 1988, ISBN 3-923641-10-9 .
Joseph Eduard Wessely : Savry, Roelandt . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 30, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, p. 454 f.

Web links

Commons : Roelant Savery - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Getty Museum
Works by Roelant Savery at Zeno.org .

personal data
SURNAME	Savery, Roelant
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Flemish painter and etcher
DATE OF BIRTH	1576 or 1578
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kortrijk
DATE OF DEATH	before February 25, 1639
Place of death	Utrecht

[1] Josef Schnelle: About the legendary Dodo, in: Süddeutsche Zeitung No. 49, February 28/1. March 2015, p. 63.