Discover painter, draftsperson Meindert Hobbema

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: Hobbema, Meindert Lubbertsz.
Hobbema, Meyndert

Qualifications: painter, draftsperson

Nationality/school: North Netherlandish

Born: Amsterdam (city) 1638-10/1638-10-31
baptized 31 October 1638

Deceased: Amsterdam (city) 1709-12-07

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: Grew up with his sister in an orphanage, after their parents died. Posted banns on 25 October 1668 with Eeltje Pieters Vinck (1634-1709), with whom he married on 2 November 1668 (De Vries 1885). Jacob van Ruisdael was his best man at that occasion. Between 1669-1673 Hobbema and his wife had four children baptized. Hobbema was witness at the baptism of Thomas van Kessel on 02-13-1675.

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142 hits in RKDimages as artist
18 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
1905 hits in RKDexcerpts as artist
15 hits in RKDtechnical as artist

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Amsterdam (stad) 1657 - 1709
possibly already as early as 1655, when he became an intern apprentice with Jacob van Ruisdael. In 1668 he became a 'wynroeier': an official, who converted measurements from other cities and foreign countries into official Amsterdam measurements.
Deventer (plaats) 1661
in 1661 he travelled together with Jacob van Ruisdael: they went by way of the Veluwe, Deventer and Ootmarsum to Germany. It is unclear where he went in Germany: probably he stayed in the aerea near the Dutch border: there are no topographical identifiable drawings or paintings that point to Germany
Ootmarsum 1661

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Connections with other artists

Pupil of This field mentions the names of teachers or masters. What is at issue are the teachers who made a significant contribution to the development of a students, as opposed to every instructor they ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Ruisdael, Jacob van
Follower of: Vroom, Cornelis Hendriksz.
Zeeman, Reinier
Followed by This field mentions the artist’s emulators. Although students can naturally also be followers, they are not mentioned again here. What is meant by followers are those who continue to work in the spirit of a predecessor. Sometimes this may happen a century later; there is no time limit. What is at issue, however, is that someone’s oeuvre must substantially follow in the manner of the artist emulated.: Hooft, Jan
Tomkins, William
Vincent, George
Influence on This field specifies the artists influenced by the artist in question, without there being question of an educational setting or servile following.: Achenbach, Andreas
Barker, Thomas
Blechen, Karl
Bock, Folckert
Calame, Alexandre
Crawford, Edmund Thornton
Crome, John
Dahl, Johan Christian
Drielst, Egbert van
Dupré, Jules
Grailly, Victor de
Ladbrooke, Robert
Nasmyth, Patrick
Scheuren, Caspar Johann Nepomuk
Schindler, Emil Jacob
Stark, James
Thomas, Thomas
Tull, Nicholas
Williams, Edward
Williams, Edward Charles

Subjects This field specifies the various subject categories or genres that constitute the oeuvre of the artist in question. The contents of this field are generally based more on the documentation available at the RKD than on the literature.: landscape (genre), winter landscape, architecture (genre)

Medium/technique: oil paint

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 18 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

Van der Aa 1852-1878 , vol. 8, 2 (1867), p. 838-841 (as: Meindert Hobbema)
Hofstede de Groot 1907-1928 (German edition) , vol. 4 (1911), p. 365-474
Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 17 (1924), p. 160-161
Gerson 1942/1983 , passim
Hollstein et al. 1949-2010 , vol. 9 [1953], p. 36
Witt Checklist 1978
Sutton/Blankert 1987 , p. 345-354
Saur 1992- , vol. 73 (2012), pp. 435-437 (L. Pijl)

N. de Roever, 'Meindert Hobbema', Oud-Holland 1 (1883), p. 81-86
A.D. de Vries Azn., 'Biografische aanteekeningen betreffende voornamelijk Amsterdamsche schilders, plaatsnijders, enz. en hunne verwanten' (II), Oud-Holland 3 (1885), p. 135-160; p. 151
A. Bredius, 'Uit Hobbema's laatste levensjaren', Oud-Holland 28 (1910), p. 93-106; 29 (1911), p. 124-128; 33 (1915), p. 193-198
'Nieuwe levensbijzonderheden van Meindert Hobbema', Maandblad Amstelodamum 26 (1939), p. 25-28
W. Stechow, 'The early years of Hobbema', Art Quarterly 22 (1959), p. 2-18
W. Stechow, 'Über das Verhältnis zwischen Signatur und Chronologie bei einigen holländischen Künstlern des 17. Jahrhunderts' in: Festschrift Dr. h.c. Eduard Trautscholdt zum siebzigsten Geburtstag am 13. Januar 1963, Hamburg 1965, p. 112
A.P. de Mirimonde, 'Un Hobbema au Musée de Gray', La Revue du Louvre 20 (1970), p. 367-370
G.S. Keyes, in: The Bulletin of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts 67 (1995), p. 42-57

G. Siebe, Der Landschaftsmaler Meindert Hobbema (1638-1709), (Ph D) Universität Bochum (Prof. Schleier) 1991

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Archive location: archief Adriaan van der Willigen
archief Le Roy
archief Wolfgang Stechow

External links: this artist in Ecartico

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Creation date: 1992-01-10; Last modified date: 2023-03-27

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