Frans Hals
Master of the Fleeting Moment
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Frans Hals is one of the most important portrait painters of all time. Like Rembrandt, the famous Dutch Baroque master’s striking portraits of the bourgeoisie and social outsiders are distinguished by their extraordinary vividness and accurate depiction. His sketch-like paintings, executed with bold brushstrokes, had a decisive influence on modernist painting. This comprehensive publication coincides with the first major survey exhibition of Hals’ oeuvre in more than thirty years.
FRANS HALS (1582/84–1666) was born in Antwerp, the son of a cloth merchant. In 1610 he was accepted into the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke. Hals created hundreds of genre paintings, individual, and group portraits and enjoyed great public prestige. Despite his fame during his lifetime, it was not until the nineteenth century that he was enthusiastically rediscovered by the Impressionists and Realists.
Descripción / Abstract
Frans Hals is one of the most important portrait painters of all time. Like Rembrandt, the famous Dutch Baroque master’s striking portraits of the bourgeoisie and social outsiders are distinguished by their extraordinary vividness and accurate depiction. His sketch-like paintings, executed with bold brushstrokes, had a decisive influence on modernist painting. This comprehensive publication coincides with the first major survey exhibition of Hals’ oeuvre in more than thirty years.
FRANS HALS (1582/84–1666) was born in Antwerp, the son of a cloth merchant. In 1610 he was accepted into the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke. Hals created hundreds of genre paintings, individual, and group portraits and enjoyed great public prestige. Despite his fame during his lifetime, it was not until the nineteenth century that he was enthusiastically rediscovered by the Impressionists and Realists.
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- Cover
- Titlepage
- Contents
- Lenders
- Foreword and Acknowledgments - Dagmar Hirschfelder
- Dedication
- Introduction Frans Hals in Berlin - Katja Kleinert
- Frans Hals, the Innovator
- The Life of Frans Hals - Jaap van der Veen
- Social Elites
- Portraiture into Art - Bart Cornelis
- Collaborating, On Demand or In Conflict
- Frans Hals as a Collaborating Artist - Erik Eising
- On the Margins of Society
- A Painter’s Field of Experimentation: Frans Hals’s Genre Pictures and Tronies - Dagmar Hirschfelder
- Laughter - Friso Lammertse
- Malle Babbe
- Painted Exception: Malle Babbe — A Work and It’s Fascination - Katja Kleinert
- Frans Hals’s “volck” – Pupils and Assistants
- The Studio - Friso Lammertse and Jaap van der Veen
- Frans Hals, Forerunner of Modernism
- “Franz Hals painted just like me.”: Modern Masters View the Haarlem Master - Justus Lange
- Frans Hals at the First International Art Exhibition in Munich, 1869 - Katja Kleinert
- Bibliography
- Photographic Credits
- Colophon