- Jan Veth
Jan Pieter Veth (
18 May 1864 Dordrecht -1 July 1925 Amsterdam ), was a Dutch painter, poet, art critic and university lecturer.Jan Veth was the son of Gerradus Huibert Veth, a
Dordrecht iron merchant and liberal politician, and Anna Cornelia Giltay. On his mother's side he descended from the Dordrecht painter family of Van Strij (his mother was a granddaughter of Jacob van Strij). He married Anna Dorothea Dirks on 10 August 1888, from which marriage came five children.Veth received his art education at the "Rijksakademie voor Beeldende Kunsten" in
Amsterdam . With several of his fellow students he founded the St. Luke group. From 1885 he worked with the painterAnton Mauve inLaren . After his marriage in 1888 he settled inBussum .Jan Veth is especially noted as a portrait painter. Amongst his sitters were
Max Liebermann , Lambertus Zijl, Frank van der Goes, Antoon Derkinderen and other contemporaries including various fellow painters.In addition he was a well-known poet, belonging to the "Eighties" movement and publishing work in the
De Nieuwe Gids . He designed the cover for "De Kleine Johannes", a book written by his friend, Frederik van Eeden, contributing to the development of book-art in Holland.As Professor Extraordinary in History of Art and Aesthetics, he was associated with the "Rijksakademie voor Beeldende Kunsten" in Amsterdam.
elected works by Jan Veth
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Arnold Aletrino
*Christiaan Eijkman
*Jacobus Kapteyn
*Diederik Johannes Korteweg
*Abraham Kuyper
*Willem Johannes Leyds (1859-1940)
*Max Liebermann
*Rudolph Peter Johann Tutein Nolthenius (1851-1939)
*Alieda Maria Tutein Nolthenius (1855-1910)
*Pieter Zeeman Biography
* Prof. dr. J. Huizinga, "Leven en werken van Jan Veth", Haarlem 1927.
ources
* "De Navorscher" 1950/1951
* [http://cms.dordrecht.nl/dordt?nav=mzwibDsHaKpPkCdCeCdDnBIkBjB Museum of Dordrecht]
* [http://www.inghist.nl/Onderzoek/Projecten/BWN/lemmata/bwn3/veth Biographical Dictionary]
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