Discover wallpaper painter, ceiling painter, painter Gerard van Nijmegen

Qualifications: wallpaper painter, ceiling painter, painter, draftsperson, copyist, etcher, designer, watercolorist
tekeningen naar 17de-eeuwse meesters gemaakt (Scheen 1981)

Nationality/school: North Netherlandish (school)

Born: Rotterdam (city) 1735-11-18

Deceased: Rotterdam (city) 1808-04-29

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: zoon van Dionys van Nijmegen, echtgenoot van de kunstenares Susanna Catharina Vijgh

See also In this field, you will find references to names of groups or to the artists that made/make up groups. You may also come across references to other artists if there was/is question of collaboration without a joint name. This is the case, for instance, with artists who rendered parts of works by other artists (such as with P.P Rubens and J. Brueghel I).

Nijmegen, Dionys van

aanvankelijk hielp hij ziijn vader met het schilderen van plafond- en behangselstukken (Scheen 1981)

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29 hits in RKDimages as artist
2 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
1 hit in RKDlibrary as illustrator
181 hits in RKDexcerpts as artist

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Rotterdam (stad) 1755 - 1808
c. 1755-1808
Duitsland
verscheidende studiereizen (Scheen 1981)
Zwitserland
verscheidende studiereizen (Scheen 1981)

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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.: Nijmegen, Dionys van
Teacher of This field mentions the names of pupils. What is at issue are the pupils who were significantly influenced by a teacher as opposed to every student someone ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Montauban van Swijndregt, François

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), forest landscape, mountain landscape, portrait, italianate, animal painting (genre), architecture (genre), cityscape, topography, genre, figure

Medium/technique: oil paint
Product: book illustration

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 2 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 25 (1931), p. 544
Waller 1938/1974 , p. 242
Witt Checklist 1978
Scheen 1981 , p. 377 (as: Nijmegen, Gerard van;*)

R. Mandle [e.a.], cat.tent. Dutch Masterpieces fron the Eighteenth Century. Paintings and drawings 1700-1800, Minneapolis (The Minneapolis Institute of Arts), Toledo (The Toledo Museum of Art), Philadelphia (The Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1971-1972), p. 70-72
J.W. Niemeijer, 'Gerard van Nijmegens 'Berglandschap met ossewagen' en het dagboek van zijn reis langs de Rijn', Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum 32 (1984), p. 64-70
Kroniek Roterodamum 62, september 1988 (over dagboek Rijnreis 1788 in Atlas Van Stolk)
Ch. Dumas, 'Gerard van Nijmegen (1735-1808)', Delineavit et Sculpsit no. 25 (september 2002), p. 40-43
J.C. Nix, 'Gerard van Nijmegen (1735-1808)', Delineavit et Sculpsit no. 26 (november 2003), p. 52-53
R. de Leeuw en B. Tempel, Het Romantiek boek, Zwolle 2006, p. 233

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Project: Inventory Decorative Interior Paintings in the Netherlands (1600-1940)
Gerson Digital : Germany
Gerson Digital : Switzerland

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Creation date: 1992-02-02; Last modified date: 2020-10-28

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