Albert Eckhout
Albert Eckhout (* 1607 in Groningen, Groningen † in end 1665 or early 1666) was a Dutch painter of portraits and still lifes. His paintings represent a significant documentation of early colonial Brazilian history dar.
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Life and work
About the artistic education of Albert Eckhout nothing is known.
From 1637 to 1644 Eckhout sat down next to the painter Frans Post, the physician Willem Piso and the researcher Georg Marggraf to the eight-year expedition to Brazil under the Governor and Commander in Chief John Maurice of Nassau- Siegen on behalf of the Dutch West India Company in part, in addition to a peace in the region had the natural history study of Brazil to the task. Was Eckhouts attention, other than that of Frans Post, not the Brazilian landscapes, but to the people and their ethnic diversity. In the years 1641-1644 he portrayed Indians, blacks and mulattos in their respective environments, thereby allowing considerable insight into their former ways of life. He also painted still life with detailed views of tropical fruits, plants and birds.
1645 returned to the Netherlands, he lived for several years in Groningen and Amersfoort. On the recommendation of John Maurice, he was court painter in 1653 by Johann Georg II of Saxony in Dresden. It is believed that he 1653-1659 the ceiling paintings executed here in the Hoflößnitz in Radebeul, but the images are unsigned and undated. They show eighty Brazilian birds. During this time he also should have ten oil paintings of exotic people painted for the palace Pretzschendorf who were founded in 1928 in Schwedt palace and there burned in 1945. In 1663 he returned to Groningen, where he received a city charter in 1664.
Johann Moritz gave away numerous paintings Eckhouts 1652 to his nephew Frederick III. of Denmark and Norway. A greater part of his works, a total of 23 paintings, therefore, is located in the National Museum in Copenhagen. Hundreds of drawings were presented to Frederick William of Brandenburg, and came to the Prussian State Library ( signature Libri Picturati A 32-38 ), after the swap in the 2nd World War and their disappearance they were rediscovered in the Jagiellonian Library in Cracow in 1977.
1678 or 1679 gave Johann Moritz Louis XIV of France eight paintings that Eckhout had painted after his return to the Netherlands. After this was made in 1668 in The Hague tapestries, a second series of tapestries was made from 1687 in the Gobelins manufactory. The paintings have not survived.