Barthel Bruyn the Younger
Bartholomäus Bruyn the Younger ( also: Barthel Brun / Bruyn; * 1523/1525 in Cologne, † 1607/1610 in Cologne ) was a German portrait painter of the Renaissance.
Life and work
Bartholomäus Bruyn was the son of Bartholomäus Bruyn the Elder, in whose workshop he was also trained. He was considered the last major masters of the old Cologne school and because of his almost colorless flesh tones as "Master of the pale faces ." The family of painters Bruyn had in Cologne over a century of dominance and represented the influence of Dutch art third epoch of the Cologne school of painting.
Bartholomäus Bruyn married in 1555, the wealthy Agnes Patberg / Pott Mountain / Bodtbergs from Essen -Werden ( † before 1623). They had four children, of whom their son Nicholas de Bruyn (* 1570 in Antwerp) remained in the family tradition and was also a painter. After Bruyn had paid his siblings in 1557, it now belonged to the houses and the workshop of his father.
In Cologne, the councilor and lawyer Hermann von Weinberg was considered the authoritative patrons and supporters of Bruyn. In his first commissioned work from the year 1556, a winged altar, him the iconographic program was specified in detail: In addition to Mary and John at the Cross vineyard came in from the front edge of the picture left his own founders image, compared to that of his wife, both pictured with coat of arms, insert. All Saints, except Christ, Vineyard has had remarkably equipped with portraits of other relatives and friends.
Bruyn later taught a workshop in his house of the painter Stephan Lochner, who had purchased the so-called house in the cave at the corner Schildergasse in Cologne in 1444. Since Bruyns private house was next to one of the oldest churches in Cologne, namely Alt St. Alban, he was occasionally referred to as a painter before St. Albain.
In 1579 was made by the painter gaff Bruyn's choice as successor to his brother Arnt Bruyn in the Cologne Council. Previously, in 1567, he was as well as between 1580 to 1607 appointed Senator. From 1591 his eyesight faded and he received the honorary office of a banner Lord. Moreover, belonged to Bartholomew Bruyn nor the Achatiusbruderschaft. After the death of his patron Hermann vineyard can be found in 1607, no significant information more about Bartholomew Bruyn. From the year 1610, the painter Gortzius Geldorp has taken the place of Bartholomäus Bruyn the Younger in the city of Cologne advice.
Style
At first he painted in his father's style, but he developed his own style of portraiture in 1570 with lasierendem ductus. His palette consisted of black, white, gray, brown and lavierendem incarnate. The scenic representations he surrounded himself with highly detailed landscapes and cityscapes. His blue stain shows his knowledge of Leonardo da Vinci's sfumato.
Gortzius Geldorp of lions, who already belonged to Bruyn's lifetime to its closest competitors, it now also solved as a major painter from Cologne.