Adriaen van Ostade

Adriaen van Ostade (* December 10 1610 in Haarlem, † 1685 buried on 2 May 1685 in Haarlem; birth name Adriaen Hendricx ) was a Dutch painter and etcher. Isaac van Ostade was his brother and student.

Life

Adriaen van Ostade was the son of a baker in Lubeck. He became a pupil of Frans Hals and in its nature worked until around 1639. From then on he joined the painting of Rembrandt, which was his passion for the picturesque exploitation of chiaroscuro come to meet earlier. He died on 2 May 1685 in Haarlem.

Ostade has a large number of mostly humorous genre pictures small size of the lives of citizens and peasants painted: smokers, drinkers, player, quack, dancers, brawls etc., sometimes portraits. In the first, influenced by neck period of his work, from about 40 photos are detectable, a striving for sharp, vivid characteristic and by bawdy humor can be seen.

The images of the second period characterize except for the chiaroscuro effect naivety of conception and warm-hearted humor. The images of the third period (usually interiors with figures) are distinguished by careful implementation in bright, brilliant tone. Of his paintings are in the galleries of Berlin, Dresden, Vienna ( kaiserl. Gallery, Liechtenstein ), Paris ( Louvre ), Munich ( Pinakothek ), Amsterdam, The Hague and St. Petersburg. Their number amounts to about 400 major works are: The hurdy-gurdy man and the farming community in Berlin, The interior of a hut and the schoolmaster in the Louvre, the peasants in the tavern in Munich, The Quack in Amsterdam, The Farmers' Festival in St. Petersburg, The Painter's Studio in Amsterdam and the painter at his easel in Dresden. He has also left numerous watercolors, inked pen drawings and etchings.

Selections

  • The Painter in his Studio, 1663, wood, 38 × 35 cm. Dresden, Gemäldegalerie.
  • The minstrel, 1673, wood, 45 × 42 cm. The Hague, Mauritshuis.
  • The so-called family of the painter, 1654, wood, 70 × 81 cm. Paris, Musée National du Louvre.
  • Feierabend in the country, in 1659, wood, 37 × 45 cm. Kassel, Gemäldegalerie.
  • Funny peasant society, 1641, wood, 45 × 38 cm. Munich, Alte Pinakothek.
  • Dancing Dwarves in a Bauernschenke, 1635, wood, 24.5 x 29 cm. Kunsthalle Bremen
  • Entertainment by the fireplace, in 1661, copper, 37 × 47 cm. Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum.
  • Annunciation to the Shepherds, wood, 69 × 55 cm. Braunschweig, Herzog Anton Ulrich- Museum.
  • Carousing and smoking farmers, wood, 30 × 37 cm. Karlsruhe Kunsthalle.
  • Greetings Santander Bauer to 1650-55, wood, 27x22 cm. Bonn, private collection

Gallery

The Alchemist

The spring Schneider

The fish seller

The Flute Player

The Painter in his Studio ( Self-Portrait)

The Schoolmaster

The Violin Player

The fishmonger

The fishmonger

Resting Wanderer

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