Velde biography
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Jan van de Velde
Dutch artist (1593–1641)
For people with a similar name, see Van de Velde.
Jan van de Velde the younger (1593 – c. 1 November 1641) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and engraver of animal, landscape and still-life subjects. He was the son of Jan van de Velde the Elder and the father of the still life painter Jan Jansz van de Velde.
Biography
[edit]Van de Velde was born in either Delft or Rotterdam, to calligrapher Jan van de Velde the Elder from Antwerp and Maijcken Van Bracht from Turnhout.[1][2][3] He was apprenticed to engraver Jacob Matham in 1613,[4] entered the Haarlem guild in 1614, and then probably visited Italy. He is better known for his etching and engraving than for his painting.[5] According to Houbraken, he was the brother of Esaias van de Velde and Willem van de Velde the Elder, but according to John Denison Champlin, Esaias was his cousin,[6] and he was no relation at all to the family of Willem. He died in Enkhuizen.[citation needed]
Drawings of Haarlem
[edit]In 1616, he drew several scenes of Haarlem as a series of 26 landscape prints. The success of this venture led him to expand it thirty years later to 60 prints, most of which are in the possession of
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Henry van de Velde
Belgian painter, architect, interior designer, and art theorist
In this Dutch name, the surname is van de Velde, not Velde.
Henry Clemens van de Velde (Dutch:[ɑ̃ːˈrivɑndəˈvɛldə]; 3 April 1863 – 15 October 1957)[1] was a Belgian painter, architect, interior designer, and art theorist. Together with Victor Horta and Paul Hankar, he is considered one of the founders of Art Nouveau in Belgium.[2] He worked in Paris with Siegfried Bing, the founder of the first gallery of Art Nouveau in Paris. Van de Velde spent the most important part of his career in Germany and became a major figure in the German Jugendstil. He had a decisive influence on German architecture and design at the beginning of the 20th century.
Early life
[edit]Van de Velde was born in Antwerp, where he studied painting under Charles Verlat at the famous Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp. He then went on to a year's study with the painter Carolus-Duran in Paris.[3] As a young painter he was strongly influenced by Paul Signac and Georges Seurat and soon adopted a neo-impressionist style, and pointillism. In 1889 he became a member of the Brussels-based artist group "Les XX". After Vincent van Gogh exhibited some work on the yearly exhib
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