Barend Cornelis Koekkoek

Barend Cornelis Koekkoek ( born October 11, 1803 in Middelburg, † April 5, 1862 in Kleve ) was a Dutch landscape painter, who came to Kleve 1834. Here he found the ideal source of inspiration for his landscape compositions, and moved in 1848 with his family executed for him by the architect Anton Klever wine Hagen painter palace. The today is a listed building in Kleve is used as a museum since 1960. It is used after the Museum Kurhaus Kleve 1997, the municipal museum was a museum of the Dutch romantic painting around BC Koekkoek and his circle and is now the B.C. Koekkoek -Haus.

Life

Childhood and studies

Barend Cornelis Koekkoek was born as the eldest of four sons of the marine painter Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek and his wife Anna van Koolwijk in Middelburg. Marinus Adrianus Koekkoek His brothers were John and Koekkoek Hermanus Koekkoek senior. Early on, he began in his father's studio to draw and joined the local drawing academy in 1817. Here he attended the evening class of Abraham Krayestein, was in the drawn mainly on the model. From the year 1822 he studied, thanks to a scholarship from the Royal Government for three years at the January 11, 1822 the newly opened Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Amsterdam with Jan Willem Pienemann and Jean Augustin Daiwaille where Koekkoek training after living model and plasters received. On October 15, 1823 he received his diploma and was considered in the next two years with several awards in this discipline.

1826 B.C. left Koekkoek Amsterdam and moved, as an aspiring landscape painter, out into nature. In his wanderings he met his first disciples, Willem Bodeman who joined him. The next two years were spent Koekkoek first in Hilversum, where to Pieter Gerardus van Os, a circle of painters had formed. In 1828 he settled for a year in Beek at Nijmegen, but always returned to the capital and took in the summer of the same year study trips to the Harz Mountains, to the Rhine and Italy.

Moving to Cleve

Between 1826 and 1829 Koekkoek worked with his former teacher Daiwaille. This was founded in Amsterdam in a lithographic institute and published before his time at the Academy lithographs. In 1830 he traveled to the Harz, the Rhineland and to Brabant. In December 1831 in Rotterdam Koekkoek received the honorary membership of the artists' association " Arti Sacrum" and was released in January of the following year a member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Amsterdam. 1833, again in Hilversum, he married Elise Thérèse Daiwaille (* 1814 in Amsterdam, † 1881 in Koblenz ), the daughter of his teacher and friend Jean Augustin Daiwaille. 1834 the young couple moved to Kleve and got five daughters, the youngest, Marie Louise Koekkoek (* 1814, † 1881) continued the tradition of her father and landscape painter was.

In Kleve Koekkoek founded in 1841 a "sign - Collegium ", and had his students draw on the model, although the Collegium to a pure school of landscape painting was. 1843 referred Koekkoek be built on the foundations of an ancient city tower Belvedere and inhabited since 1848 located on the same plot patrician house, which was built in the classical style after its application to designs by the architect Anton Klever wine Hagen. The representative painter with a studio located at the Palais Koekkoekplatz 1, formerly Kavarinerstraße 33, in the heart of the city of Kleve. The House with the Belvedere today a jewel of the city, will be continued in the tradition of its builder as a museum for the painting of the Klever romance; it is one of the finest artists' houses of the Rhineland and the adjoining Netherlands.

Last years

In Barend Cornelis Koekkoek suffered November 1858 at age 56 from a stroke, which caused the end of his artistic career. He had his studio at the Belvedere Place and moved into the top floor of his palace. In 1861 he was made an honorary member of the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg before he died in his adopted home of Kleve on 5 April 1862. In the same year represented Koekkoek posthumously the Netherlands at the World Exhibition in London.

Awards and honors

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