Carlos de Haes

Carlos de Haes ( born January 27, 1826 in Brussels, † June 17, 1898 in Madrid) was a Spanish Impressionist landscape painter and Belgian descent.

Life

Carlos de Haes was born in Brussels, but in 1835 moved with his family to Málaga and arrived there in the teaching of Spanish portrait painter Luis de la Cruz y Ríos. In 1850 he went back to Belgium and worked with the landscape painter José Quinaux. During this time he traveled to France, Germany and the Netherlands and learned the various forms of romantic and realistic painting know.

1855 de Haes returned back to Spain and exhibited his landscapes with great success in various exhibitions, and in particular the Exposicià Nacional in Madrid. In 1857 he was able to secure a Spanish citizen, with its views of the Royal Palace from the Casa de Campo in 1857 the chair of landscape painting at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid. In 1860 he was Académico de mérito scheme at the Academia de San Fernando. In the 1870s de Haes concentrated more on the landscapes of the Pyrenees and the Sierra de Guadarrama in Castile. He also traveled to areas that were previously ignored by Spanish artists, and painted with thick brushstrokes on a small format landscapes in Aragon, moose and Mallorca.

By his own style a realistic landscape display as a contrast to the prevailing romanticism, and his famous pupil he soon belonged to the most famous and influential landscape painters in the country and have been awarded numerous prizes at the exhibitions in Madrid. He established the plein- air painting and was convinced that only final corrections in the studio should be performed. Among his students were doing among other Aureliano de Beruete y Moret, Darío de Regoyos Valdes, Agustín Riancho, Espina and Morera.

After his death in 1898, especially his relatives inherited his wealth now existing, he bequeathed his pictures to his disciples, and they in turn to the Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno in Madrid gave. In 1900 they were suspended in a specially created space for these images and presented during the Second Republic, however, removed at a renovation again, and the collection was dissolved. Another exhibition room of his paintings taught his former student Morera in Lleida, many of his paintings are now seen also in the Museo del Prado in Madrid.

Works (selection)

Canal abandonado. Vriesland

Los Picos de Europa

Tejares de la Montaña de Príncipe Pío