Geertgen tot Sint Jans

Geertgen tot Sint Jans, Gerrit van or Geertgen Haarlem, Gerrit Gerritsz or Gérard de Saint -Jean (c. 1460/1465 (unknown); † before 1495 in Haarlem ) was a Dutch painter.

Work

About his life little is known. Karel van Mander described him in his sentry Boeck as a lay brother of St. John monastery Sint January in Haarlem (hence his nickname ), where he had been a pupil of Aelbert van Ouwater and young, with about 28 years, died.

He is regarded as the main champion of Dutch painting of the 15th century. His work focuses on the art of the northern Netherlands to the level of the Flemish painting of the time. Sure it is only two pictures attributed to the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna. His style is so characteristic that about 15 more pictures it can be relatively safely attributed. The inferred relative chronology of his paintings makes it likely that he received his first training in the area of the Bruges school of painting.

Successor

Geertgen himself to painter in Haarlem as the master of Figdorschen Cross have trained or at least have had a circle of followers. Also, the Master of the Brunswick diptych is considered his students.