词条 | Goyen, Jan van |
释义 | Goyen, Jan van Dutch painter Goyen also spelled Goijen, in full Jan Josephszoon van Goyen born Jan. 13, 1596, Leiden, Neth. died April 27, 1656, The Hague ![]() He learned painting under several masters at Leiden and Haarlem and settled at The Hague in 1632. To support his family, he worked as an auctioneer, an appraiser of art, and a real-estate investor. Van Goyen also speculated in tulip bulbs, at that time an exotic item imported from Turkey, and suffered severe losses when the tulip market crashed in 1637(see Tulip Mania). He never recouped his losses, and he died insolvent. Many of his earlier pictures, from 1620 to about 1630, show the influence of Esaias van der Velde (Velde, Esaias van de), his teacher in 1616. These landscapes are highly detailed, have strong local colour, and often serve as a stage for genre scenes. His characteristic style developed from the 1620s, when his compositions became simplified and his technique broadened. A use of low horizons gave his landscapes a Baroque sense of spatial expansiveness. His concern with rendering natural light and the depiction of subtle atmospheric effects, however, are the principal identifying features of van Goyen's tonal landscapes. ![]() Additional Reading Three exhibition catalogs are Alan Jacobs Gallery, Jan van Goyen, 1596–1656: Poet of the Dutch Landscape (1977); Jan van Goyen, 1596–1656: Conquest of Space (1981); and Hans-Ulrich Beck, Jan van Goyen, 1596–1656: Paintings from Museums and Private Collections Commemorating the 400th Anniversary of His Birth (1996). |
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