Hans Vredeman de Vries

Hans Vredeman de Vries or Jan de Vriese, or Friedman of Plank, (born with Leeuwarden of Plank, 1527, † with Antwerp according to the assumption most usually allowed, as soon as possible in 1606) was a painter and a Architecte. Its essential place in the Flemish Rebirth is due to the systematic use that it made linear prospect, according to the Italian geometrical techniques, and whose it contributed to propagate employment.

Biography

One knows by a notarial act dated October 29th, 1560 that on this date Hans Vredeman de Vries is 34 years old. He was the son of certain Dirks (“ Diericx ”) of Vries, Artilleur with the service of the Stathouder of Plank, the baron Jörg Schenck de Tautenburg. His/her brother, Sebastian Vredeman de Vries was organist and type-setter with Malines.

Vredeman was apprentice in the painter-vitrailliste Reiner Gerrits with Amsterdam, then studied with Kampen (1546-47) at Ernst Mæler. In Antwerp, it took part as from 1548, under the direction of the architect Pieter Coecke van Ælst (1502-1550), with the realization of the triumphal arch intended to accommodate the princely entry of Charles Quint and Philippe II. It is without any doubt in contact with Coecke van Ælst, the future translator of the Of structured Flemish , that Hans Vredeman de Vries discovered Vitruve. He studied the treaties of architecture of Sebastiano Serlio, by which he learned the central prospect, and this technique fascinated it so much so that he became the specialist in the Netherlands about it. It is with Malines, where it is active starting from 1552-53 qu ' it is made known like a Master of the prospect: he obtains several orders for scenographies (stage sets). In 1561, he marries Johanna, the sister of the painter Gilles van Muysene, with whom he had worked with the decoration of an annual procession.

With died of his wife, in 1565, it is established in Antwerp as municipal architect (we would say town planner today). After the fall of Antwerp under the blows of the Spanish troops (1575), it took part in the repair of the fortifications. It remains in Antwerp when the city falls to the hands from the duke from Parma, Alexandre Farnese. It leaves with his second wife Sara van der Elsmer and her Paul son in spring 1586 for Francfort-sur-le-Main, where the duke Julius of Brunswick-Lüneburg engaged it with Wolfenbüttel as engineer, with the responsibility of bore a channel of the Elba to the Weser. Unfortunately after the first drafts, and some steps to find a financing, the duke dies in 1589 and its successor gives up the project of drain.

To the liking of the orders, Vredeman de Vries travelled then to Hamburg, Dantzig and Prague (it designed the gallery of tables of this city). Of return to Hamburg in 1598, he is recalled to Amsterdam in 1600, where one grants the right of middle-class to him. In 1604, he sees himself offering the pulpit of architecture of the Université of Leyde.

The date of the death of Vredeman de Vries is still discussed. What is certain, it is that a letter of August 1609 of his/her son established in Hamburg, Paul Vredeman de Vries, evokes the heritage of Hans.

Hans Vredeman de Vries in particular influenced the painter Izaak van den Blocke.

Works

Dorica and Ionica and Corinthia and Composita (1565)
Toscana (1578)
the merry one and splendid entry of Monseigneur Françoys wire of France… in its very-fame town of Antwerp (1582), Antwerp, impr. Christophe Plantin.
viridariorumque Hortorum… formæ (1583)
Perspectiva (1604)
Structured oder Bauung der Antiquen aufs dem Vitruvius, wellches center funff Collummen orden, daer auss mann ale Landts gebreuch vonn Bauuen zu accomodiere dienstlich fur ale Baumaystren… (1577, réimpr. 1581,1597 then 1606) - Antorff, impr. of Jode.

References

Heiner Borggrefe, “ Hans Vredeman de Vries (1526-1609) ” (2002) in Vredeman de Vries und die Rebirth im Norden , Hirmer Verlag, Munich, ISBN 3-7774-9470-4
Petra S. - “ Die Structured von Hans Vredeman de Vries ” (2002), ED. Zimmermann: Kunstwissenschaftliche Bibliothek (vol.99), Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, ISBN 3-422-06370-6

External bonds

treaties of Hans Vredeman de Vries

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