Hendrik Hondius I

Hendrik Hondius ( * 1573, † 1650) and d' Hondt or de Hondt, was a Dutch publisher, draftsman and engraver. He came from a family of a schoolmaster from Duffel in Flanders.

Life

Hondius came from a Dutch printer and publishing family of Flemish origin. As another family Hondius Amsterdam, with which it is easy to be confused, they fled from their Flemish homeland because of war, which should lead to the independence of the Netherlands from Spain. The father Guiljam Hondius was schoolmaster in Duffel. After his death the widow lived, Hondius mother in Antwerp. Hondius himself, born on June 9, 1573 Duffel, Antwerp marries the daughter of the goldsmith Godefroy van Gelder, in which he had learned, Sara Jansz (also Jansdochter ). He subsequently studied in Antwerp with Jan Wierix. Before 1597 he moved to the Hague, and in 1597 was admitted there in the guild. He received his first print rights for a portrait of Prince Maurits in the same year. 1599 the general citizenship of the city, he was awarded. He left the city in 1603, lived in Amsterdam and 1604 /05 in Leiden, in 1605 he returned to the Hague. He traveled to Cologne, Paris, and London. Between 1597-1600 and about 1616 were Hondius and his wife, Sarah, five daughters and two sons, the portraitist and engraver Willem Hondius ( 1600-1658, dated other sources 1597 -? 1652) and Hendrik Hondius II, the publisher has also. Hondius was buried on 25 or October 29, 1650.

Work

Hondius is one of the most important printer and publisher in the early 17th century in Holland. He is known as a draftsman, engraver, etcher and publisher of landscapes, genre scenes, portraits, architectural views " Les cinq rangs d'architecture, 1617 " and technical drawings " geometry, theory contenant La et practique ... Ã La Fortification, 1616 ". With Hans Vredeman de Vries 1604-05, he published a textbook of perspective. He stands for other artists, including Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Hondius itself will last detected in 1649 in The Hague, as his self-portrait in January Meyssens iconography was ' published.