Jan Davidsz. de Heem
January Davidszoon de Heem, Jan Davidsz shortly. de Heem (* April 1606 to Utrecht, † 1683 or 1684 in Antwerp ) was a Dutch painter and son of the still-life painter David de Heem.
Life
Jan Davidsz. de Heem was among other things a student of the still-life painter Balthasar van der Ast (1593-1656) and Daniel Seghers ( 1590-1661 ).
From 1625 to 1629 he was active in Leiden, was to enroll in the Antwerp painters' guild in 1635 and was in the following year the citizens of the city. To 1667, he went back to Utrecht, where the invasion of the French in 1672, he fled to Antwerp. De Heem was the largest flower and fruit painters of the Dutch school. He joined microscopic fineness of the design with the highest luster of coloristic representation and the finest taste in the arrangement. He painted vases with bouquets, often populated with insects and butterflies, floral wreaths to niches, windows and Madonnas, which are imitated in stone colors, fruit garlands, Still Life with filled wine glasses, grapes and other fruits, food, etc.
He knew how to increase the fineness of coloring to the point of transparency, so that his replicas of the dead nature achieve the appearance consummate truth of nature. Pictures of his hand can be found in almost all major art galleries ( Still life with chalice and host of garlands surrounded Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien; Still Life with Eye of Providence in a surrounded by fruit and flower hanging niche and another with niche and fruit and flower hanging in Berlin Museum ).
His sons Cornelis de Heem (1631-1695) and Jan Jansz de Heem (1650 - after 1695) were pupils of her father and partly in The Hague, partly in Antwerp operates. You have created flowers and fruit pieces and still life in the style of painting of the Father.
For Jan Davidsz de Heem's students were also Marrel Jacob, who had previously learned at Georg Flegel, Abraham Mignon and Maria van Oosterwijk.
List of Works
- Bouquet of flowers in a glass vase, Gemäldegalerie Berlin
- Fruit and floral garlands, oak, 37 x 68 cm, Gemäldegalerie Berlin ( Friedrichshain war loss )
- Fruit and flower cartridge with wine glass 1651, Gemäldegalerie Berlin
- Painted frame with fruits and flowers, 1650, Gemäldegalerie Berlin
- Still Life with Fruit and Lobster, Gemäldegalerie Berlin
- Fruit still life with oysters and wine glass, oil / wood, 47.4 x 63.4 cm, Herzog Anton Ulrich- Museum, Braunschweig
- Sumptuous Still life with ham, oysters, fruit and a parrot, oil / canvas, 115.5 x 169.5 cm, Art Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
- Still life, oil on panel, 54.8 × 79.5 cm, September 20, 2013, the auction house Koller, Zurich