Otto van Veen (also known as Octavius Venius and Otto Van Ven ) ( niderl. Otto van Veen, Octavius Vaenius, Otto Venius ; 1556 , Leiden - 1629 , Brussels ) - Flemish painter, engraver, book illustrator. The representative of mannerism .
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Also known as the teacher of Peter Paul Rubens , whose work anticipated the art of the famous student.
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Biography
The father of the future artist was the burgomaster and the family was wealthy. Until 1572, he studied in Leiden with Isaac-Klaas van Swanenburg (1537-1624). It is known that in October 1572 the Catholic family of Van Veen moved to live in Antwerp , and then in Aachen and Liege , where he studied in the workshops of Dominic Lampsonius and Jean de Rame (Remy). Lampsonius knew Latin, had a university education and worked as a secretary for four years with Cardinal Reginal Paul in Canterbury, in England. The desire to have a good education and knowledge in painting and art, in general, led O. van Veen to the desire to visit papal Rome , where he went in 1575
In Rome, O. van Veen met Federico Zuccaro . Italian art had a significant impact on his style. In 1583, on his way to Liege, he visited Munich and Cologne . He worked in the courts of the emperor Rudolph II and the Duke of Bavaria William V.
In 1585 he became court painter to the Duke of Parma Alessandro Farnese and settled in Brussels. After the death of A. Farnese in 1592, O. van Veen moved to Antwerp, where the following year he became a master of the St. Luke's guild . In 1594-1600 he takes in students, and then assistants of Rubens . Rubens was strongly influenced by O. van Veen.
In 1599, O. van Veen led the city's decoration on the occasion of the ceremonial entry into the city of Archduke Albrecht VII of Austria and Isabella Clara Eugenia .
In 1602 he became the dean of the guild of St. Luke's guild . Ten years later, he moved to Brussels , where he received the position of the head (custodian) of the mint , and in 1620 he joined the guild of Catholic painters.
Throughout his career, the official artist O. van Veen painted religious altar paintings (which are now in the cathedral and churches of Antwerp, the chapel of the city hall, in the museums of Antwerp and Brussels, as well as in the Louvre ), created a number of engravings mainly on emblematic plots (Preparatory sketches in oil and in grizzly technology are kept in museums of Rouen , Lille, Douai , and also in the Louvre ).
Author allegorical book illustrations.
In his works, he sought to free himself from Mannerism and to search for the novelists of his time.
Portraits
"Portrait of Alessandro Farnese "
"Portrait of Tobias Verkhtah "
"Portrait of Nicholas Rokoks", 1600
"Johann Mireus", the fourth archbishop of Antwerp, 1611
Selected paintings
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Otto van Veen - 2009.
- ↑ Otto Vaenius - 1999.
- ↑ 5138 // Le Dictionnaire des peintres belges du XIVe siècle à nos jours - La Renaissance du livre , 1995. - ISBN 978-2-8041-2012-2
- B BNF ID : Open Data Platform - 2011.
- ↑ RKDartists
- 2016 artist list of the National Museum of Sweden - 2016.
- ↑ LIBRIS - 2012.
- ↑ German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 118767461 // General Regulatory Control (GND) - 2012—2016.
Literature
- Collection "Peter Paul Rubens. Letters, documents, judgments of contemporaries", compiled by Egorov K. S. M, "Art", 1977
- Elena Matveyeva "Flemish painting of the XVII century." Publisher "White City". - 2008. - 127 p. ISBN 978-5-7793-1472-5
- Belkin, Kristin Lohse: Rubens. Phaidon Press, 1998. ISBN 0-7148-3412-7 .
- Bertini, Giuseppe "The Cosmos", Burlington Magazine vol. 140, no. 1139. (Feb. 1998), pp. 119-120.
- Montone, Tina, Dolci, Dolci sdegni, Amorum Emblemata, Alice Adam and Marleentam, Emblems Historical Perspective. Glasgow Emblem Studies, vol. 8. Glasgow: University of Glasgow, 2003. p.47.
- Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Otto van Veen's Batavians defeating the Roman (sic)
- Van de Velde, Carl "Veen [Vaenius; Venius], Otto van" Grove Art Online. Oxford University Press, [accessed 18 May 2007].