Jan Verkade

January Verkade ( born September 18, 1868 in Zaandam, † July 19, 1946 in Beuron; Willibrord Verkade also OSB) was a Dutch painter and Benedictine.

Life and work

After an interrupted studies at the Academy in Amsterdam in 1891 Verkade went to Paris, where he met Paul Gauguin and Paul Sérusier and got in close contact with the artist group Les Nabis. After growing interest in the Catholic church had Verkade, who came from a Mennonite family, 1892 baptized Roman Catholic. In 1894 he entered as a novice in the Benedictine Archabbey of Beuron Hohenzollern ( today Baden-Württemberg ), and was named the frieze Apostle Willibrord. In 1902 he was ordained priest. In Beuron he worked from now on in the Beuronese art school, he also headed the meantime.

Verkade plants are located in France and Sweden in public museums. Independent wall works are preserved in the Catholic churches of Aichhalten and Heiligenbronn well as in Vienna.

Verkade were several works of German and Flemish mysticism out ( Gertrud book, From the Book of the Twelve Beguines, Jan van Ruysbroek The adornment of the spiritual marriage, and others), where he got the translation.

His autobiographical works were repeatedly launched that restlessness to God also translated into Hungarian and Polish.

He was one of the closest friends of culture journalist Hermann Bahr in the Catholic phase (1912-1934), who also frequently published over Verkade. The correspondence between the two has not been evaluated by the research.

Works

• The unrest to God. Memories of a painter - monk. Freiburg: Herder, 1920.
• Jan van Ruysbroek: The adornment of the spiritual marriage. From the Flemish by Willibrord Verkade. Mainz: Matthias Grünewald -Verlag, 1922.
• The drive to perfection: Memories of a painter monk. Herder, Freiburg 1931.
• Traces of life: findings from the painter monk Willibrord Verkade OSB Grünewald, Mainz 1938.