Hendrick Aerts

Hendrick Aerts (* 1565-1575; † January 1603 ) was a Flemish painter and draftsman.

Name variants: Hendrick Arts, Arts Henricus, Henricus Arijssel ( Aryssel ), Hendrick A. Rijssel ( Ryssel )

About the origin, formation and life of Hendrick Aerts little is known. In the old literature, he was a long run as the Dutch masters of Flemish or French origin. Due to a formerly located in Schwedt on the Oder privately held image that " Henricus a Ryssel " was signed, it was suspected that he might be in Lille ( Ryssel is the Flemish name of Lille) was born. When you took the birth year of 1565, is located on a "HA 1565 " signed picture in Braunschweig (Herzog Anton Ulrich- Museum ). There, the date is on a grave, which was interpreted by the research largely as a date of birth of the artist.

It was recognized in his work an influence by Hans de Vries Vredeman and Dirk van Delen and walked away from that Aerts, have oriented to an early phase in the southern Netherlands, to the north, and also worked there later. A further possibility of temporary stay in Stockholm was considered likely to occur, but did not show up.

Was relatively early on ruled out that Hendrick Aerts is to be equated with the painter H. Aertsz that is documented from 1553 in Amsterdam, and was buried in 1575 in the Oude Kerk.

From recent research, in particular by M. Bernard Vermet that previous assumptions about the vita of the artist are largely questioned. Vermet a suspected origin Hendrick Aerts of Mechelen. He suggests further that Aerts could have oriented early on Vredeman Paul de Vries and was trained by this also. He met him probably 1592-1595 in Gdansk. Then he de Vries, probably accompanied from 1596 to 1599, to Prague, where he worked as his assistant. From 1599 Aerts could be again returned to Gdansk, where he 's probably died around 1603.

Works

From Hendrick Aerts only a few images have received. The research shows him to less than ten paintings. The earliest reliable work is dated 1600 and the latest work in 1602. He painted seemingly exclusively architectural pieces with palace and church interiors, whose figurative Masked often represent allegories.

• Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum Imaginary Renaissance palace. 1602

• Interior of a Gothic church.

• Piece of architecture with an allegory of death. 1602

• Allegory of love and death. 1600 /01 (2002 in Paris, Galerie De Jonckh )
• Marketplace. ( until at least 1913 in a private collection in Schwedt on the Oder)
• Interior of a Gothic church. (attributed - auctioned by Dorotheum in Vienna on June 7, 1994)
• Interior of a Cathedral with a procession. ( on ​​5 July 2000 auctioned at Bonhams Knightsbridge )