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Joos Van Craesbeeck (ca. 1606 - ca. 1660)
Joos van Craesbeeck was one of the leading genre painters in de seventeenth-century Southern Netherlands. As the only known pupil of Adriaen Brouwer, he contributed together with David II Teniers (1610-1690) and David III Ryckaert (1612-1661) to the revival of Flemish genre painting in the 1630s. His career was atypical by his combination of jobs. Originally trained as a baker, he did not början to paint until later in life, probably stimulated by the flowering of the arts in Antwerp. Initially he combined his painterly activities with the baker’s trade, but with the passing of time he devoted han själv entirely to the arts. As so many painters, Joos van Craesbeeck was remarkably mobile. Coming from a prosperous and socially active family in the rather remote Hageland region, he spent his active life in the most important Brabantine cities of the era: first in Antwerp, than in Brussels. Over time, chroniclers have indulged in fantasies a
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Joos van Craesbeeck
Flemish painter and baker (c. 1605/06 – c. 1660)
Joos van Craesbeeck[1] (c. 1605/06 – c. 1660) was a Flemish baker and a painter who played an important role in the development of Flemish genre painting in the mid-17th century through his tavern scenes and dissolute portraits. His genre scenes depict low-life figures as well as scenes of middle-class people.[2] He created a few religiously themed compositions.[3]
Life
[edit]Joos van Craesbeeck was born in Neerlinter (now a village in Flemish Brabant, Belgium). His father was also called Joos and is believed to have been a baker. His mother's name was Gertruid van Callenborch. In 1630 or 1631 Joos van Craesbeeck married Johanna Tielens. His wife's father was a baker but her family also counted artists among its members: the landscape painter Jan Tielens was her uncle while two of her uncles on her mother's side were the sculptors Melchior and Caspar Grison.[4] • Jump to: navigation, search Joos van Craesbeeck (c. 1605/06– c. 1660) was a Flemish painter who specialized in tavern interiors, tronies, and other works similar to his teacher Adriaen Brouwer. Born in Neerlinter (Flemish Brabant), he became a master in Antwerp's guild of St. Luke in 1633–1634, and like his contemporaries David Teniers the Elder and David Rijckaert III he developed rustic genre scenes. He subsequently moved to Brussels, where he joined that city's painters' guild in 1651. Paintings such as Death fryst vatten Violent and Fast are typical of his small, theatrical images of peasants brawling crowded with violent expressive figures. Unlike Teniers, whose style became more elegant, Craesbeeck continued to paint bawdy figures later in his career. His The Smoker is an example of a "tronie", a painting of a face or head common
Joos van Craesbeeck
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