Joseph Mendes da Costa (4 November 1863 – 20 July 1939) was a Dutch sculptor and teacher.
Life and work
Mendes da Costa was born in
Amsterdam
Amsterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Amstel'') is the capital and most populous city of the Netherlands, with The Hague being the seat of government. It has a population of 907,976 within the city proper, 1,558,755 in the urban ar ...
to the sculptor Moses Mendes da Costa and Esther Teixeira de Mattos, sister of
Henri Teixeira de Mattos and aunt of
Joseph Teixeira de Mattos. He was taught by his father who kept a stone workshop where he made building details and gravestones. Later, Costa enrolled at the newly founded
Quellinusschool where he studied under
Bart van Hove
Bart van Hove (18 March 1850 – 10 February 1914) was a 19th-century Dutch sculptor.
Biography
Van Hove was born in The Hague. According to the RKD he was the grandson of the painter Bartholomeus Johannes van Hove for whom he is named, an ...
.
He is known for sculpted ornaments on buildings and became a draughtsmanship teacher at the
Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten who had many pupils himself, including Eva Cremers, Adrianus Johannes Dresmé, Therese van Hall, Bertha Koster-thoe Schwartzenberg, Jan de Meijer (1878–1950),
Frank de Miranda, Adrianus Remiëns,
Coba Surie, his nephew by marriage Joseph Teixeira de Mattos, and Tjipke Visser.
[Joseph Mendes da Costa in the ]RKD
The Netherlands Institute for Art History or RKD (Dutch: RKD-Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis), previously Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD), is located in The Hague and is home to the largest art history center i ...
In 1891 he married
Anna Jessurun de Mesquita, the sister of
Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita
Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita (6 June 1868 – 11 February 1944) was a Dutch graphic artist active in the years before the Second World War. His pupils included graphic artist M. C. Escher (1898–1972). A Sephardic Jew, in his old age he was sen ...
. From 1911–1925 he lived and worked in
Laren, North Holland
Laren () is a town and municipality in the province of North Holland, Netherlands. Located in the Gooi region, it is the oldest town in the area. Together with its neighbor Blaricum, Laren is one of the most affluent towns in the Netherlands.
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but then moved back to Amsterdam.
In 1932
Helene Kröller-Müller
Helene Kröller-Müller (11 February 1869 – 14 December 1939) was a German art collector. She was one of the first European women to put together a major art collection. She is credited with being one of the first collectors to recognise the ...
commissioned him to design the impressive statue of her personal friend General
Christiaan de Wet in the
Hoge Veluwe National Park
De Hoge Veluwe National Park (, "The High Veluwe") is a Dutch national park in the province of Gelderland near the cities of Ede, Wageningen, Arnhem and Apeldoorn. It is approximately in area, consisting of heathlands, sand dunes, and woodlands. ...
.
Works
File:Sculpture Christiaan de Wet by Joseph Mendes da Costa (detail), Hoge Veluwe, the Netherlands.jpg
File:KMM Mendes Liefde.JPG, ''Love'' (1917), Kröller-Müller Museum
The Kröller-Müller Museum () is a national art museum and sculpture garden, located in the Hoge Veluwe National Park in Otterlo in the Netherlands. The museum, founded by art collector Helene Kröller-Müller within the extensive grounds of ...
File:De Raadsman.JPG, ''The philosopher'' (1920-1924), Jachthuis Sint-Hubertus
File:Detail De Bazel.jpg, Sculptures on De Bazel
De Bazel is a listed/protected historic building on the west side of the Vijzelstraat in Amsterdam (at number 32), and stretches from the Herengracht to the Keizersgracht. It stands as an example of Brick Expressionism.
History
The building wa ...
, Amsterdam
File:WLANL - legalizefreedom - zelfportret.jpg, Self-portrait, 1927
References
External links
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1863 births
1939 deaths
Artists from Amsterdam
Dutch male sculptors
20th-century Dutch sculptors
19th-century sculptors
Dutch Sephardi Jews
20th-century Dutch male artists