Frans Post
Frans Post (* um 1612 in Leiden, † 1680 in Haarlem ) was a Dutch painter who is best known for his from a stay in Brazil dominated landscape painting.
Trained by his brother, the architect and painter Pieter Post (* 1608, † 1669), he participated at the age of 25 years at the eight -year expedition ( 1636-1644 ) of Count John Maurice of Nassau- Siegen to Brazil. Count Johann Moritz had decided, and in the framework of its mission for the Dutch West India Company, to manage the recently conquered colony in northeastern Brazil, several artists and scientists (next to Frans Post, inter alia, the painter Albert Eckhout, the physician Willem Piso and the mathematician include astronomer George Markgraf ) in his company for documentation and recording of information such as geography, landscapes, land development, etc. this resulted in the famous twelve-volume book of the Brazilian natural History " Naturalis Historia Brasiliae " ( 1648), the Frans Post illustrated.
From this expedition Frans Post painted numerous paintings, for which he heranzog its locally made sketches and notes. Because of their almost photographic realism include the early, resulting in Brazil works today on important pictorial records of this era. One can assume that he Zacharias Wagner ( * 1614, † 1668), the " first German tropics painter" has influenced there artistically.
After his return in 1644 Frans Post painted Brazilian landscapes, shaped nature shots to decorative works of art, which corresponded to the then taste of the Dutch public and led America into European painting. He spread a great wealth of motifs of Brazilian flora and fauna under a blue sky in South America and was hailed as the " Canaletto Brazil". Numerous paintings by Frans Post can be found in the 1647 by Caspar van Baerle together with the cartographer and engraver Joan Blaeu on behalf of Moritz written by Nassau- Siegen, impressively illustrated book and " Accountability Report " ( Rerum by octennium in Brasilia et alibi nuper gestarum sub praefectura ) through its governorship of the Dutch colony in Brazil in Recife ( 1637-1644 ).
At the age his paintings were melancholy. The rural scenes of late years to 1680 often catch an evening moods.
Presentations of his paintings were in Basel and Tübingen (1990 ) in the Louvre in Paris ( 2005) and see the Haus der Kunst in Munich (2006).