Simon kick

Simon Kick (* 1603 in Delft ; † before September 26, 1652 in Amsterdam ; actually Simon Willemsz. Kick , mistaken names: Kick, Jan; Cicke, J.) was a Dutch painter .

Life

Simon Kick was the son of a paintworker from Amsterdam who lived in Delft . Before 1624 he moved to Amsterdam, where his presence for the years 1631, 1633, 1643, 1646, 1647, 1651 and 1652 is documented. Nothing is known about his training, but his earliest works, the portrait studies in Dayton and Amsterdam , which are dated to the years 1637 and 1639, suggest an influence by Rembrandt . At the same time he painted his first guard room scenes during this time, for which he is especially famous. He thus joins the group of genre painters , including Dirck Hals , Jacob Duck , Pieter Codde and above all Willem Duyster . He was particularly deeply connected to the latter, because he married his sister Christina (Stijntje) Duyster on September 5, 1631. The wedding took place on the same day that Willem Duyster married Simon Kick's sister Margrieta. His son Cornelis also learned the profession of a painter. Although there are no known still lifes of Simon Kick , it can be assumed that he was his son's teacher.

Simon Kick was buried in Amsterdam on September 26, 1652.

Selected Works

• Amsterdam , Rijksmuseum
  • Study of an Old Man , 1639
• Basel , art museum
  • Officers and soldiers .
• Berlin , Gemäldegalerie
  • Elisha refuses to accept Naeman's gifts , 1644
  • Control of travelers .
• formerly Berlin, Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum
  • Resting soldiers in a stable , 1648 (probably destroyed in 1945)
• Dayton , Art Institute
  • Man in a turban reading , 1639
• Düsseldorf , Museum Kunstpalast
  • Soldiers sharing the booty , 1637
  • Lady with a servant in front of the mirror , around 1648
• Karlsruhe , State Art Gallery
  • Musical entertainment , around 1640–1650
• Copenhagen , Statens Museum for Kunst
  • Coming home from bird hunting .
• Leipzig , Museum of Fine Arts
  • Young woman at the toilet , 1648
• Oxford , Ashmolean Museum
  • A woman sitting at a table
• Poznan , National Museum
  • A peasant family asks soldiers for pity in a guardhouse , around 1640
• St. Petersburg , Hermitage
  • Portrait of a Standing Young Man , around 1640–1650
• Whereabouts unknown
  • Soldier with flag and drum in an interior , (attributed - auctioned on 5 July 1995 at Sotheby's in London)
  • Interior with a man putting on his boots (auctioned 3 July 1997 at Sotheby's in London)
  • A company of soldiers prepares for battle in their guard house (auctioned on January 29, 1999 at Christie's in New York)
  • The return of the young hunter (auctioned on June 14, 2000 at Couturier & de Nicolay in Paris)
  • The gendarme and his company (Der Fahnträger) , (auctioned on March 26, 2004 at the Koller Gallery in Zurich)

literature

• From Frans Hals to Vermeer - masterpieces of Dutch genre painting , Berlin, 1984

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Simon Kick, Lady with Servant in Front of the Mirror , around 1648, 2017 Donation from Maria and Michael Sichelschmidt, Düsseldorf, oil on wood, 67 x 51.5 cm, inv. M 2017-4 , from Stiftung Museum Kunstpalast, accessed on February 21, 2018