Willem Hekking

A flower still life by Willem Hekking

Willem Hekking (born March 24, 1796 in Amsterdam , † May 20, 1862 there ) was a Dutch painter .

Life

Hekking was born in Amsterdam in 1796 as the son of the wallpaper painter Theodorus Hekking (1766–1819), who is documented as a member of the St. Luke's Guild from 1793 and who created landscapes, architecture and cityscapes. Willem Hekking was a student of Anthonij van den Bosch. At first, like his father, he worked as a wallpaper painter, but later turned to ink and watercolor painting as well as drawing with a pen. In exhibitions in Amsterdam and Rotterdam from 1813 to 1838 he mainly showed still lifes of flowers and fruits. Marina Adriana Maria van Toulon and Anna Maria Veeren were among his students. His son Willem Hekking Junior (1825-1904) was a lithographer, draftsman and painter who also worked mainly in Amsterdam. He also painted pieces of flowers and fruit and other still lifes, but also city and river views and church interiors.

literature

Roeland van Eynden, Adriaan van der Willigen: Geschiedenis der Vaderlandsche Schilderkunst. Part 3, 1820, p. 307 and Appendix 1840, p. 275 .
Hekking, Willem . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 16 : Hansen – Heubach . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1923, p. 322 .
Uta Römer: Hekking, Willem (II) . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 71, de Gruyter, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-023176-2 , p. 293. (in the article on the son)

Web links

Commons : Willem Hekking - collection of images, videos and audio files

Willem Hekking. Biographical data and works in the Netherlands Institute for Art History (Dutch)

Individual evidence

^ Uta Römer: Hekking, Willem (II) . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 71, de Gruyter, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-023176-2 , p. 293.

personal data
SURNAME	Hekking, Willem
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch painter
DATE OF BIRTH	March 24, 1796
PLACE OF BIRTH	Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH	May 20, 1862
Place of death	Amsterdam

[1] Uta Römer: Hekking, Willem (II) . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 71, de Gruyter, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-023176-2 , p. 293.