Aert De Gelder ( 1645-1727 ) Edited By Kristin Belkin

The catalogue raisonné comprises all works painted by, or attributed to, the artist and known to the public since 1850. A luxuriously illustrated reference book, this publication forms the basis for all further research on the work of Aert van der Neer. The monograph also contains the results of new investigations into the life and work of such artists as Jochem and Rafael Camphuysen, Anthonie van Borssom, and others. A choice of quotations, taken from art-historical assessments made since 1800, completes the author's appraisal of Aert van der Neer's reputation. Complete bibliographies for each work, several indexes of former owners and present whereabouts, and a concordance with Hofstede de Groot's 1918 numbers facilitate the use of the catalogue by collectors, art dealers and art historians. Wolfgang Schulz (Friedrichstrasse 218, 10969 Berlin), born in 1943 in East Prussia, was formerly a member of the staff of both the Printroom and the Picture Gallery of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, and has worked at the Mauritshuis in The Hague. He has also served as director of severa Arent de Gelder was Rembrandt's last pupil. He was born in 1645 in the attractive provincial town of Dordrecht where N. Maes, S. van Hoogstraten, A. Cuyp and many other important Dutch painters of the 17th century had their home. However Arent de Gelder belongs to an entirely different generation. He started his career as a painter when the "Golden Age" of Dutch Art had come to its end. In the early sixties, as a young man he went to Amsterdam - the only occasion on which he seems to have left his native town for any length of time; then he had been accepted by Rembrandt to work in his studio, just about the period when he had entered his last heroic phase in painting. Arent de Gelder seems to have carried on the tradition of Rembrandt's approach to color far into the beginning of the 18th century. A careful analysis of Arent de Gelder's paintings will reveal that in truth he had a different understanding of the function of color within the conception visualized by him. Arent de Gelder's natural talent to use color in all its splendor is a constant source of joy when studying his work even if he is carried away by it to such a degree that at times he is neglecting the precision of basic design. Arent de Gelder, in a way an outsider within Dutch Painting of the Post-Rembrandt period, was completely unconcerned about the artistic aims and intentions of his contemporaries and he went his own way. Size: Quarto

Edizione: edition originale.