Samuel van Hoogstraten

Self-portrait by Samuel van Hoogstraten

Samuel van Hoogstraten (born August 2, 1627 in Dordrecht ; † October 19, 1678 ibid) was a Dutch painter , etcher and art theorist and author of numerous well-known tragedies and praise poems. He devoted himself to portrait painting as well as genre , landscape and history painting , as well as animal pictures and still lifes .

Life

Samuel van Hoogstraten was the son and pupil of the painter Dirck van Hoogstraten and joined Rembrandt's workshop around 1641 , where he was trained together with Carel Fabritius and Furnerius. In The Hague , he initially dealt with portrait painting .

In 1648 he returned to Dordrecht, in 1651 went to his brother, the Vienna- based history and genre painter Jan van Hoogstraten, and was there also by Ferdinand III. received, who later awarded him a medal of honor, which the artist depicted in numerous of his works (still lifes, books). He spent 1652 in Rome, returned to Vienna in 1653 and finally back to Dordrecht the following year. There he stayed, with the exception of the years 1662–1666, which he spent in London , and 1668–1671, in which he stayed in The Hague.

In The Hague, van Hoogstraten was enrolled in the Pictura Brotherhood as early as 1638 and was also mentioned in 1671. He died in 1678 at the age of 51 in his native Dordrecht. In the year of his death, his most important work Inleydingh tot de Hooge Schoole der Schilderkonst ( Introduction to the High School of Painting ) appeared.

Samuel van Hoogstraten:
Old Man at the Window , 1653,
Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum

Mother at the cradle (around 1670)

plant

As the self-portrait (1644) shows, Samuel van Hoogstraten's early work was influenced by Rembrandt. Very soon, however, he turned away from his style of painting and the intimistic genre painting in the style of Pieter de Hooch (1629–1684), Jan Steen (1626–1679) and Gabriel Metsu (1629–1667), although he was in the masterful execution shines with perspectives and trompe l' oeil motifs, but lags behind Pieter de Hooch in terms of finesse.

Today he is best known for his irreplaceable introduction to the High School of Painting (1678) on Dutch painting of the 17th century, which in addition to the works of Karel van Mander (1548–1606), Gerard de Lairesse (1640 / 1641– 1711) and Arnold Houbraken (1660–1719) is one of the classics of art literature.

Selection of works

The pale addict

• 1644: Self-portrait , Rotterdam, Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum
• 1652: Portrait of Count Ferdinand von Werdenberg , Winterthur, Jakob Briner Foundation in the Oskar Reinhart Museum
• 1653: Old man at the window , oil on canvas, 111 × 86.5 cm, Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum
• 1654/62: The Slipper , oil on canvas, 103 × 70 cm, Paris, Louvre
• 1664: Trompe l'oeil still life , oil on canvas, 45.5 × 57.5 cm, Dordrecht, Dordrechts Museum
• The pale addict , painting, Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum -Stichting.

literature

• Joseph Eduard Wessely :  Hoogstraaten, Samuel Dirkzoon van . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, p. 99.
• Lexicon of Art . Volume 2. Berlin, 1981; P. 333.
• Thijs Weststeijn: The Universal Art of Samuel van Hoogstraten (1627-1678): Painter, Writer, and Courtier . Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam 2013, ISBN 9789089645234 .

Web links

Commons : Samuel van Hoogstraten  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Gallery of works by Samuel van Hoogstraten