Joachim Wtewael

Joachim Anthonisz. Wtewael (* 1566 in Utrecht, † August 1, 1638 ) was a Dutch painter.

Life

The son of the glass painter Anthony Jansz. Wtewael (pronounced Utewaal ) spent most of his life in Utrecht. Handed down by Karel van Mander he worked until his 18th year as a glass painter with his father and then went for two years in the workshop of the painter Joos de Beer ( died before 1595 ) a. He then went with the Bishop of Saint- Malo, Charles de Bourgneuf de Cucé, initially for two years after Padua and then for a further two years after France.

He was returned to Utrecht in 1592 Champion in the " Sattler Guild ". In May In 1595 he married in Utrecht Christina van Halen, with whom he had four children from 1596 to 1607 over the years. In 1610 he took part in a revolt by the party of the orthodox Calvinist "Contra - Remonstrants " against the countries occupied by the progressive Arminianism Utrecht city council. Wtewael also belonged to the established on January 25, 1610 Revolutionary City Council, which, however, was already disbanded on April 28 this year. In 1611 he was registered on the list, which was founded on September 13 this year Guild of St. Luke. 1613 and 1614 he presented a two apprentices. A house he bought 1619th From this year he also appeared frequently as a money lender. On April 13, 1629 his wife died.

On October 1, 1632 Wtewael was again a member of the final occupied by the Contra - Remonstrants since 1618 the city council. His son Peter succeeded him on October 1, 1636 from a member of the Council. In 1637 he granted the priest Joannes Breyeris a bigger loan, suggesting success as a painter on Wtewaels. Joachim Wtewael died on 1 August 1638, this was a few days later, buried on 7 August in the Buurkerk in Utrecht.

Wtewaels small-format ( 21x15 cm) paintings Holy Family was in the 1990s the focus of an international legal dispute, as the picture hanging up in 1945 in the ducal collections in Gotha and then disappeared as looted art in the Soviet Union, to be auctioned at Sotheby's. In a precedent was established in 1998 the property of the Federal Republic of Germany and the image for Castle Friedensstein be secured.