Jan August Hendrik Leys

Hendrik Baron Leys (Jean Auguste Henri Leys ) ( born February 18, 1815 in Antwerp, † August 25, 1869 ) was a Belgian painter and etcher.

Life

Leys worked from 1829 to 1832 in the studio of his brother Ferdinand de Braekeleer and brought 1833 in Brussels an image battle between a French grenadier and a Cossack, to the exhibition. He drew more attention to themselves by the image fight the Burgundians and Vlamingen and by the painting The white caps.

In 1835 he went to Paris and here joined the French Romantics on. Part in this modern style, partly in the manner of Van Dyck and Rembrandt are held:

  • Massacre of the aldermen of Leuven in 1339
  • Geusenfamilie, defensively against Spaniard
  • Flemish wedding
  • Gypsy
  • Robber
  • Maleratelier
  • Bretagnisches family celebration
  • Mayor Six at Rembrandt
  • The King of crossbowmen
  • The Feast of protecting honor, after Rubens.

In 1839 he made ​​a trip to Holland, where he met the Dutch genre painters closer in whose manner he like pictures:

  • Frans Floris, begebend located at a fixed
  • The Family Festival (1845, Museum of Leipzig )
  • Dutch church (1844-1850)
  • Dutch society of the 17th century (1847 )

Both painted etc. in the Berlin National Gallery.

After a trip to Germany (1852 ), he gradually changed his style and painted in brilliant, colorful style of the school of Quentin Massys, where he at first imitated the naiveté and clumsiness of the old masters. To this direction includes the pictures:

  • Hard at Otto Venius
  • The Mass in honor of the mayor Bertall de Haze
  • Walk outside the gate ( after Goethe's "Faust" )
  • The Catholic Women
  • New Year's Day in Flanders
  • The Plantin family
  • Margaret, walking out of the church
  • Marie of Burgundy handing out alms
  • Luther as a child singing about Eisenach

Last six compositions at a wedding procession, which executed Leys in his own dining room at Antwerp in fresco. In 1855 he received the large gold medal at the Paris World Exhibition, toured 185 for the second time Germany and was raised in 1862 in the hereditary baron. After Leys had again visited Germany in 1863, he took the decoration of the great hall of the town hall in Antwerp with frescoes in attack. In four paintings he put the civil rights and self- defense, self-reliance and self-government by four episodes from the history of Antwerp 1514-1567 dar. Even before the completion of this work he died August 25, 1869 in Antwerp, where he at the cemetery Schoonselhof was buried.

Leys also has several admirable etchings executed in imitation of Rembrandt, also a lithograph and woodcut.

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