Willem kalf national gallery
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Willem Kalf
Baptised on 3 November 1619 in Rotterdam, Willem Kalf was a son of Jan Jansz. Kalf and Machtelt Gerrits, both of whom were from Gouda. His father was a well-to-do cloth merchant who held various offices in city government. According to Houbraken, Willem Kalf was a pupil of Hendrick Pot, but this seems to be uncertain. Around 1639/40 he went to Paris, where he is documented in 1642 in the circle of Flemish artists in St Germain-des-Prés. By October 1646 at the latest he had returned to Rotterdam - for how long is uncertain, since his whereabouts in the following years are undocumented. At the time of his marriage on 22 October 1651 he was living in the West Frisian city of Hoorn. His bride, Cornelia Pluvier (ca. 1626-1711), was a cultured woman of many talents who belonged to the circle around Constantijn Huygens; known as a master of calligraphy, she also engraved glassware and dabbled in poetry and music. In 1653 at the latest, the couple settled permanently in Amsterdam, where two sons and two daughters were baptised. In 1653, 1661, 1672 and 1686 Kalf was consulted
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(b Rotterdam, 1619; d Amsterdam, 31 July 1693). Dutch painter, one of the most celebrated of all still-life painters. From about 1640 to 1646 he worked in Paris; on his return to the Netherlands he lived in Hoorn and then in 1653 settled in Amsterdam. His early works were modest kitchen and courtyard scenes, but he soon became the outstanding exponent of a type of still life in which fruit and precious objects—porcelain, oriental rugs, Venetian glass—are arranged in grand Baroque displays. He was an art dealer as well as a painter, so some of the objects he used as models may have been pieces he had in stock. His pictures have often been compared with those of Vermeer because of his masterly handling of texture and his ability to manipulate warm and cool colours (he frequently contrasts the reddish browns in a carpet with the yellow of a peeled lemon and the blue and white of porcelain).
Text source: The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (Oxford University Press)
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Willem Kalf
Dutch still-life painter (1619–1693)
Willem Kalf | |
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| Born | 1619 (1619) Rotterdam |
| Died | 31 July 1693(1693-07-31) (aged 73–74) Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Known for | Still-life paintings |
| Movement | Dutch Golden age |
Willem Kalf (1619 – 31 July 1693) was one of the most prominent Dutch still-life painters of the 17th century, the Dutch Golden Age. We first get acquainted with Willem Kalf through Arnold Houbraken, in his Groot Schilderboek, who speaks very highly of him.[1] In fact, Kalf was a highly regarded and celebrated artist during his own lifetime. This was due to his extensive art knowledge and what we gain from Houbraken, his affable personality. His claim to fame now rests mostly on his mature still lifes, pronkstilleven in Dutch, which feature the most exotic and luxurious objects.[2] This can be seen in for example, Still life with nautilus beaker and porcelain lidded bowl from 1662, which became an iconic piece of western art.
Life
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