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Accompanying an exhibition at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts -
only the second exhibition ever devoted to the artist - this
noteworthy publication considers De Beer's work and career, working
methods, and traces the history of De Beer's paintings in British
collections. The Antwerp painter Jan de Beer (c.1475-1527/28) was
highly esteemed in his lifetime and still famous a couple of
generations after his death, but then fell into oblivion until the
early twentieth century. Only recently have his achievements been
fully recognized and documented. The artist's known oeuvre consists
of forty works, mainly devotional paintings and triptychs but also
a dozen drawings and a stained glass window, after a lost design.
De Beer's stylish and elegant art appealed to patrons and
collectors, churches abroad, and copyists. His work is typically
associated with that of the Antwerp Mannerists, a prominent group
of mostly anonymous painters active in the city during his
lifetime. This publication will accompany an exhibition at the
Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham (25 October
2019 to 19 January 2020) that focuses on one of its and De Beer's
acknowledged masterpieces: the double-sided Joseph and the Suitors/
The Nativity. This is the only surviving fragment from what must
have been a major altarpiece. It will be accompanied by a
half-dozen key loans of paintings and drawings by De Beer and his
workshop including all the attributed paintings in UK collections.
These will provide both an instructive context for the Barber
painting and for De Beer's art more generally, with the whole
chronological range of his career represented. It will be only the
second ever exhibition devoted to De Beer, and the first to show
the broad range of his work. The fully-illustrated catalogue will
feature extended entries for all the exhibited works and three
essays exploring the core themes of the show, written by Robert
Wenley, Head of Collections at the Barber Institute and the lead
curator of the exhibition, and two leading De Beer specialists.
Professor Dan Ewing (Barry University, Miami Shores, Florida) will
consider De Beer's work and career; while Peter van den Brink
(Director, Suermondt-Aachen Museum) will explore De Beer's working
methods, in particular as revealed by the underdrawings of his
pictures. Robert Wenley's essay will survey the history of De
Beer's paintings in British collections.
An exploration of Durer's career and legacy as an international
traveling artist The visual legacy of Durer's travels extends far
beyond his lifetime and throughout Europe, and the documents
illuminating them offer unique insights into the distinctive ways
Durer conducted and managed his career, making him an
intriguing-and even controversial-figure. This generously
illustrated book examines the career of preeminent Renaissance
artist Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) as an international traveler,
addressing his relations with artists from Italy to the Low
Countries, including Giovanni Bellini, Joos van Cleve, Jan
Gossaert, Lucas van Leyden, Quentin Massys, and Bernard van Orley.
Bringing together paintings, drawings and prints, the book examines
Durer as an artist-entrepreneur, explorer, and innovator of
artistic theory. Durer's treatises and letters, and his detailed
journal documenting his journey to the Low Countries in 1520-1,
offer insights into his artistic practices and encounters with
artists and patrons, as well as the nature of travel in the early
16th century. Published by National Gallery Company/Distributed by
Yale University Press Exhibition Schedule: The National Gallery,
London March 6, 2021 - June 13, 2021 Suermondt-Ludwig Museum,
Aachen July 18, 2021 - October 24, 2021
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