Anton Mirou

Anton Mirou (* 1578 in Antwerp, Spanish Netherlands, now Belgium, † before 1627 ) was a Flemish- Dutch painter of the school of painting in Frankenthal in the Palatinate.

Curriculum vitae

His father, the pharmacist Henricus Mirou, pulled as a persecuted Calvinist faith with his family in 1586 to Frankenthal. As a teacher Mirous Gillis van Coninxloo and Hendrick Gijsmans (also: Ghysmans ) suspected. Both are major representatives of Frankenthaler painting school, which also included Pieter Schoubroeck and Hendrick van der Borcht.

1602 married Anton Mirou and his wife Susanne in Frankenthal; she was last mentioned in 1627. As models Mirous apply in addition to the Frankenthaler Pieter Schoubroeck also Jan Brueghel and Theodor de Bry. In art history Mirou is rated as " hesitant in dealing with change, sometimes almost a little dated ."

Mirous works are now in museums such as the Museo del Prado, the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, the Museum of Fine Arts, the National Gallery in Prague, the Bavarian State Painting Collections and the Historical Museum of the Palatinate.

Works

Mirou painted landscapes in oil and produced pen and ink drawings. Diefenbachers catalog contains 46 numbers. Several of his drawings became popular as engravings. Here he worked with Hendrick van der Borcht together ( the Elder ), Theodor de Bry and Matthew Merian.

Seine, Schwalbacher travel ' is a series of 26 pen and ink drawings in landscape format of about 11.5 cm x 16.5 cm. Nine of these motifs took Matthäus Merian and provided them with the remark, drawn by Anton Mirou, but in copper cut by Matthäus Merian '. By Merian printing technology, these stitches are shown reversed to the originals. Although Mirou already left the age of eight his native Flanders, he summarized his written work notes continue into Dutch.

On the art market up to $ 67,000 was paid for his oil paintings.

Trivia

The town hall square in Frankenthal is since 1977 the Café Mirou, named after the painter.