Van de Passe family
Crispin de Passe the Elder, also Crispijn van de Passe; Crispin de Pas, Crispijn, Crispiaen, Chrispyn or Latinized Crispin, Crispian, Crispyn I., van de Passe, de Pas, Passeus, etc. ( * 1564 in Arnemuiden, † March 1637 in Utrecht (Netherlands), buried on 6 March 1637 ) was a Flemish- Dutch draftsman, engraver, printer, publisher, and painter. Crispin de Pas was active in Antwerp, Aachen, Cologne and Utrecht.
- 6.1 works with Crisp. referred
- 6.2 works untagged
Family
He was the progenitor of a Flemish- Dutch family of engravers and publishers who worked mainly in Northern Europe. Merlo suggested that de Passe had her own art school. The father was also the teacher of his children Simon (Cologne 1595-1647 Copenhagen), Magdalena (Cologne 1596-1638 Utrecht), Crispin Younger ( Cologne 1597-1670 Amsterdam) and Willem de Passe ( Cologne 1598-1636 London) which is why it is often very difficult to distinguish the works of the individual family members. They were all at the same time draftsman and engraver, so they published both his own works as well as engravings after designs of other artist made . The factory number of Crispin family is loud francs 1,334 single sheets. In addition, there are 49 publications illustrated with some 50 to 150 stitches.
The stitches were the de Pas et al 1615 for Henni Heidt Riders Juno - Relief as a template, which is located in Berlin at the Deutsches Museum. Her works have been implemented wood, alabaster and various metals in stucco.
Her drawings were located in 1932 in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, in the collections of van Altena Excited renin, Welker, Oudheidk, Genootshap, Berlin, in the Brussels collection de Grez, in the Dresden Collection Friedrich August II, in the album amicorum of Arnoldus Buchelius the Leiden University Library, in the Maartensdyker collection Lugt, in Vienna and in the collection of Sir William Stirling Maxwell.
Life and work
Also Passe the Elder produced many prints, often in series according to their own templates, but also by the other signatories templates and mostly, they were published also equal to itself as a publisher.
His first name Crispin, the Kraus -haired ( lat.crispulus: curly haired; crispus: curled; Krauskopf ) suggests that he had as an infant a curly head. He was born in Arnemuiden on the island of Walcheren in Zeeland. When he was young, his parents moved to Antwerp. He went to Dirk Coornhert into teaching. His first work dates from the year 1584. To 1584/85 he became a member of the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke, registered as a guild master.
Crispin's early style is reminiscent of Veldmann and the brothers John and Jerome Wierix Wierix. After his marriage to Magdalena de Bock, a niece by marriage of Marten de Vos resembled his style to that of de Vos.
After Antwerp had meanwhile come under Spanish rule there were ordered to convert to Catholicism or leave the city within five years. De Pas a stiff Mennonite then left Antwerp and lived from 1588 with his wife in Aachen. He founded a business as a freelance graphic artist and published the first prints of his own design. The Council of the City of Aachen devoted crispin I. a sequence of six leaves: The Story of the Prodigal Son by Marten de Vos. The climate in Aachen was initially hospitable than it had been in the occupied Antwerp, however, was the publication in 1589 of a decree of Emperor Rudolf II, who wegtrieb all heretics, in this case, all Protestants. De Passe moved to Cologne and stayed there despite its limited position as a refugee who was unable to apply for citizenship, for more than twenty years. Crispin de Pass was a sought-after artist and his business flourished. Johann Jacob Merlo described circa 214 leaves from his Cologne creative period. From 1595 to 1611 Crispin I pointed out in Cologne more than 200 plates. One of his famous students was later highly acclaimed in Germany engraver Peter Isselburg (around 1580-1630 ).
A first work is his portrayal of the Belgian philosopher Justus Lipsius (1547-1606) from 1587th Already in 1588 he made after designs by Marten de Vos, a series of 46 illustrations for the Bible very well-known, then living just in Cologne printer Christopher Plantin (c. 1520-1589 ).
Lived until the second half of the 1590s and worked Passe in Cologne, where his five children were born. In 1612 the Mennonite Passe Cologne had to leave and moved his workshop to Utrecht. In Utrecht he acquires the citizenship as an engraver in 1613 and was buried there on March 6, 1637.
Signature
On some of his works he calls himself Zelandus and refers to his birthplace. In the works of Ferdinandus magellanus, Thomas Cavendish and Franciscus Draco is a ligature of the letters PCV. In 1892 he signed the sheet Vantaes et vanitates Crispin. d.pas murntor et. excud. His journal Minerva as patroness of the draftsmanship wears his symbol C. V PA BED (?). Crisp: v. yoke. i.ye: found titled with John on the leaf of a female representations with a boy holding a long cross in his arms as Elizabeth.
Topics
His prints all treated subjects. He engraved many biblical and other devotional scenes, the lives of saints, Portrait Prints by teachers, nobles, generals, scholars, including He said many allegorical rows of stitches: the seven virtues and vices, the seven planets, the seven age the man, the five directions, the four elements, the four seasons and the four times of day. He also created illustrations of scenes from Homer, Ovid and Virgil. De Passe designed a particularly fine set Emblem stitches. In 1611, they adorned Gabriel role Hagens influential nucleus Emblematum selectissimorum .... For the students of the University of Cologne, he published prints that describes university life. He sat scenes against each other, which should provide an incentive for moral reflection.
Works (selection)
Stitches
Publications
Works family de Pas as a template for
Works with Crisp. referred
- Coëffeteau Nicolas, Bishop of Marseilles († 1623) by Daniel Dumonstier
- Spes Oval
- Ship affairs with sailors in astronomical instruments cover picture of a book about the Marine
- Christ child on a pillow with globe and cross
- Caritas, part of a sequence
- Counterpart: mercilessness
- Spes