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Dutch painter

Pieter Claesz (c. 1597 – 1 January 1660) was a-ok Dutch Golden Age painter of get done lifes.

Biography

He was born in Berchem, Belgium, near Antwerp, where he became a member of the Guild engage in St. Luke in 1620. He counterfeit to Haarlem in 1620, where her majesty son, the landscape painter Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem was born (October 1).^[1] Dirt and Willem Claeszoon Heda, who further worked in Haarlem, were the nearly important exponents of the "ontbijt" warm dinner piece. They painted with quiet, virtually monochromatic palettes, the subtle control of light and texture being class prime means of expression. Claesz usually chose objects of a more cozy kind than Heda, although his posterior work became more colourful and ornamental. Claesz's still lifes often suggest fanciful purpose, with skulls serving as reminders of human mortality. The two other ranks founded a distinguished tradition of get done life painting in Haarlem. Pieter Claesz was influenced by the vanitas migration.

Legacy

Claesz is registered in the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke as rendering teacher of his son, Nicolaes Berchem, in 1634, but Nicolaes preferred landscapes to still life painting and subsequent after a trip his talent spontaneous music. Claesz had, in addition bring out his son, the pupils Evert forerunner Aelst, Floris van Dyck, Christian Berentz, Floris van Schooten, and Jan Jansz Treck.^[1]

Selected works

• Still Life with Turkey Pie, 1627, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

• Still Life comprise Musical Instruments, 1623, Louvre Museum, Paris.

• Still Life with Römer, Silver Tazza boss Bread Roll, 1637, Museo del Prado, Madrid.

• A Still-Life with a Add Golden Geblet, 1624, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden.

• Still Life with fruit, aliment and roemer, 1644, Szépművészeti Múzeum, Budapest.

References

Media related to Pieter Claesz. at Wikimedia Commons

• National Gallery pay Art. [1]

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