Joos van craesbeeck biography of martin luther

He married Johanna Tielens, the daughter of the deceased Antwerp prison baker, in the chapel of Het Gasteel, the Antwerp prison, in January In —4 he was enrolled as a baker and painter in the Guild of St Luke at Antwerp, and in he was listed as the proprietor of a new house with a bakery there. In —4 he registered two pupils with the guild. According to de Bie and Houbraken, Craesbeeck was probably taught by Adriaen Brouwer; he may have met him in when Brouwer was in prison for tax debts Craesbeeck baked bread for the prison.

Like Brouwer, Craesbeeck found his subject-matter in tavern interiors with simple people, but he subsequently turned completely to the middle-class world, which was depicted both carousing at the inn and in domestic genre scenes. In or Joos van Craesbeeck married Johanna Tielens. The Tielens family was also responsible for the operation of the bakery in the Antwerp citadel.

When the painter Adriaen Brouwer was imprisoned in the citadel, van Craesbeeck likely got to know him. The movements of van Craesbeek between and , the year he became master in the Brussels Guild of Saint Luke are not clear. It is likely that his move to Brussels was linked to that of David Teniers the Younger who settled in Brussels on 7 September In , Adriaen Rombouts was his pupil.

The death date of van Craesbeeck is not known with certainty but it must be situated between and since in a Lucas Viters was registered as his pupil at the Guild and a year later Cornelis de Bie reports him as deceased. Evolution Joos van Craesbeeck painted mainly genre scenes and a few religiously themed compositions. His genre scenes depict low-life figures as well as scenes of middle class people.

Only one painting is signed with his full name while about 30 other paintings have the monogram cb or jvcb. Like Brouwer he applied colour very thinly leaving parts of the ground visible. Antwerp painters remained, however, his main source of inspiration. Joos van Craesbeeck Flemish, — c. Show 30 50 The Young Alchemist. Death is Fierce and Quick Five Senses Tavern Scene Card Players about The rough style of these self-portraits is typical for the peasant vernacular of the genre.

His lively, boorish expressions show his deep understanding of the peasant character. Van Craesbeeck often developed on the theme of the five senses. Each figure in the group represents one of the senses: a lute-player Hearing , a man holding a wineglass Taste , a man with a pipe Smell , an intimate couple Touch and a woman reading Sight.

He painted many tavern interiors. Some of these works are a reflection of the new themes that had been introduced in genre painting by the Northern followers of Caravaggio such as that of the musician. An example is the Lute Player Liechtenstein Museum , which shows two women entertaining a cavalier, who seems to have passed out with a full glass of wine in front of him.

A flute hanging above the head of an old man leaning over the shoulder of the female lute player symbolises the man's thoughts. Van Craesbeeck modernized the pattern introduced by the Caravaggisti of showing figures seated around a table with those in front shown in silhouette by more full describing the interior space, showing the effect of the daylight and opting for a more vertical format.

Paintings such as Death is Violent and Fast are typical of his small, theatrical images of peasant brawls crowded with violent expressive figures already depicted by Brouwers. A tiny skeleton placed inside a tankard in the lower right foreground plays the role of death in the composition. Van Craesbeeck also painted A guardroom interior with soldiers playing cards , which falls within the genre of the guardroom scene.

Joos van craesbeeck biography of martin luther

A guardroom scene typically depicts an interior scene with officers and soldiers engaged in merrymaking. Guardroom scenes often included mercenaries and prostitutes dividing booty, harassing captives or indulging in other forms of reprehensible activities. He also painted a few paintings in the subgenre referred to as "piskijken" "pee looking" , which typically shows a woman with a doctor or quack performing a pregnancy test by looking at a sample of her urine.

An example is The doctor's visit Brukenthal Museum , which shows in the background a young woman who seems to have collapsed and is being comforted. In the foreground stands a person a doctor or a quack? A shadow of a foetus is visible in the vial, a sign that the young woman is pregnant. Contents move to sidebar hide.