Joos Van Craesbeeck (1605/6-C.1600) - Karolien de Clippel
Een Brabants Genreschilder
KORTE INHOUD
Joos van Craesbeeck was one of the leading genre painters in de seventeenth-century Southern Netherlands. As the only known pupil of Adriaen Brouwer, he contributed together with David II Teniers (1610-1690) and David III Ryckaert (1612-1661) to the revival of Flemish genre painting in the 1630s. His career was atypical by his combination of jobs. Originally trained as a baker, he did not start to paint until later in life, probably stimulated by the flowering of the arts in Antwerp. Initially he combined his painterly activities with the bakers trade, but with the passing of time he devoted himself entirely to the arts. As so many painters, Joos van Craesbeeck was remarkably mobile. Coming from a prosperous and socially active family in the rather remote Hageland region, he spent his active life in the most important Brabantine cities of the era: first in Antwerp, than in Brussels. Over time, chroniclers have indulged in fantasies about Van Craesbeecks colourful nature to such an extent that in the nineteent...
