Cornelis van Haarlem

Cornelis Corneliszoon van Haarlem (1562 – 11 November 1638) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and draughtsman, one of the leading Northern Mannerist artists in the Netherlands, and an important forerunner of Frans Hals as a portraitist.

Biography

Born in Haarlem, Cornelis Corneliszoon was a pupil of Pieter Pietersz in Haarlem, and later Gillis Coignet in Antwerp.Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem
in the RKD He is known among art historians as a member of the Haarlem Mannerists, who were highly influenced by the work of Bartholomeus Spranger in 1585, and had a strong immediate effect.Slive, 8 He painted mainly portraits as well as mythological and Biblical subjects. Initially Cornelis Cornelisz painted large-size, highly stylized works with Italianate nudes in twisted poses with a grotesque, unnatural anatomy. Later, his style changed to one based on the Netherlandish realist tradition.

When his parents fled Haarlem, as the Spanish army laid siege to the city in 1573 during the Eighty Years' War, Cornelis Cornelisz remained behind and was raised by the painter Pieter Pietersz the Elder, his first teacher. Later, in 1580-1581 Corneliszoon studied in Rouen, France, and Antwerp (with Coignet), before returning to Haarlem, where he stayed the rest of his life. He became a respected member of the community and in 1583 he received his first official commission from the city of Haarlem, a militia company portrait, the Banquet of the Haarlem Civic Guard. He later became city painter of Haarlem and received numerous official commissions. As a portrait painter, both of groups and individuals, he was an important influence on Frans Hals. He married Maritgen Arentsdr Deyman, the daughter of a mayor of Haarlem, sometime before 1603. In 1605, he inherited a third of his wealthy father-in-law's estate.

Works

Together with Carel van Mander, Hendrick Goltzius and other artists, he started an informal drawing school that has become known in art history circles as the Haarlem Academy or "Haarlem Mannerists". Probably this was a very informal grouping, perhaps meeting to draw nude models, and certainly to exchange artistic views. Corneliszoon also played a role in the failed attempt to make a new charter for the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke in 1630, which tried to raise the status of the artists. His registered pupils were Salomon de Bray, Cornelis Jacobsz Delff, Cornelis Engelsz, and Gerrit Pietersz Sweelink. Among his students was Cornelis Claesz Heda (brother of Willem Claeszoon Heda), who seems to have exported Cornelisz' particular brand of mannerism to India, where he was active at the court of the sultan of Bijapur.Gijs Kruijtze
Xenophobia in Seventeenth-Century India
(Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2009), 21

Paintings by him are on display at the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Louvre in Paris, the National Gallery in London, the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, the Bass Museum in Miami Beach, and other museums.

Gallery

Image:Cornelis van Haarlem - De eerste familie.jpg, ''The first family'' (Noah and his family) (c.1582–1592)
File:Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem - The Fall of Ixion - Google Art Project.jpg, ''The Fall of Ixion'', (1588)
Image:Cornelis van Haarlem - Doopsel van Christus.jpg, '' The Baptism of Christ'' (c.1588)
Image:Cornelis van Haarlem - Bethlehemse kindermoord.jpg, ''Massacre of the Innocents'' (1590)
'Hercules and Achelous' by Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem, 1590.jpg, ''Hercules and Achelous'' (1590)
Image:The Holy Family by Cornelis van Haarlem 1590.jpeg, ''The Holy Family'' (1590)
Image:Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem - Een monnik en een begijn - 1590.jpg, ''Nun and Monk'' (1591)
File:Cornelis van Haarlem Christ.jpg, ''Christ the Redeemer'', c. 1591.
Image:Cornelis van Haarlem - De zondeval.jpg, ''Adam and Eve'' (1592)
File:WLANL - legalizefreedom - De bruiloft van Peleus en Thetis.jpg, ''The Wedding of Peleus and Thetis'', c. 1592-93
Image:Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem - Pieter Jansz Kies.jpg, ''Portrait of Pieter Jansz Kies'' (1596)
Cornelis van Haarlem - Banket van de officieren van de St. Jorisdoelen.jpg, ''Banquet of the Officers of the Company of St. George'' (1599)
Cornelis van Haarlem - Venus en Adonis.jpg, ''Venus and Adonis'' (1614)
Allegory of Repentance mg 0014.jpg, ''Allegory of Vanity and Repentance'' (1616) (oil on panel)
Image:Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem 005.jpg, ''The Good Samaritan'' (1627) (oil on panel)

Notes

References

*Seymour Slive, ''Dutch Painting, 1600–1800'', Yale UP, 1995.

External links

Web Gallery of ArtGetty Museum

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1562 births
1638 deaths
Artists from Haarlem
Dutch Mannerist painters
Dutch male painters
Painters from Haarlem
Dutch Golden Age painters