G. Flegel is considered the first German artist who painted still lifes and one of the largest European masters of this genre at the beginning of the 17th century. Flegel is also the creator of a large number of watercolors depicting flowers, often in life size.
Born in Moravia. in a shoemaker's family. Beginning in 1580, he worked in Linz as an assistant in the studio of the Dutch painter Lucas van Valckenborch. Flegel's task was to paint fruits, vegetables and flowers on large-format canvases depicting corporate feasts or market scenes. In 1592/1593, Valckenborch moved his workshop to Frankfurt am Main, and G. Flegel and his wife Brigitte followed him. In April 1597, Flegel, with the help of Walkenborch, received Frankfurt citizenship and opened his own workshop. Since 1600, the artist has been trying to paint his first still lifes, using as nature those fruits and objects that were usually used to create a background in large paintings.
Flegel's workshop, in its size and productivity, could not, of course, be compared with the real art workshop of his teacher, where several students and assistants constantly worked. Flegel's only student was the artist Jacob Marrel, who then continued his studies in Utrecht with Jan de Heem. The famous German master of still life Sebastian Stoskopf, who adopted a lot from Flegel, apparently never saw his teacher during his lifetime and adopted his skill, studying his canvases.
G. Flegel had seven children, of whom two of his sons were also artists.
Painter, founder of the German school of still life.
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G. Flegel is considered the first German artist who painted still lifes and one of the largest European masters of this genre at the beginning of the 17th century. Flegel is also the creator of a large number of watercolors depicting flowers, often in life size.
Born in Moravia. in a shoemaker's family. Beginning in 1580, he worked in Linz as an assistant in the studio of the Dutch painter Lucas van Valckenborch. Flegel's task was to paint fruits, vegetables and flowers on large-format canvases depicting corporate feasts or market scenes. In 1593, Valckenborch moved his workshop to Frankfurt am Main, and G. Flegel and his wife Brigitte followed him. In April 1597, Flegel, with the help of Walkenborch, received Frankfurt citizenship and opened his own workshop. With the artist trying to paint his first still lifes, using as nature those fruits and objects that usually created the background in large paintings.
Flegel's workshop, in its size and productivity, could not, of course, be compared with the real art workshop of his teacher, where several students and assistants constantly worked. Flegel's only student was the painter Jacob Marrel, who then continued his studies in Utrecht with Jan de Heem. The famous German still life master Sebastian Stoskopf, who adopted a lot from Flegel, apparently never saw his teacher during his lifetime and adopted his skill by studying his canvases.
G. Flegel had seven children, of whom two of his sons were also artists.
Gallery
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Wardrobe and flowers
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Still life with fried eggs
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Still life with vase and cherries
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Still life with a parrot
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Still life with fish
Stilleben mit Brot und Zuckerwerk.jpg
Still life with bread and sweets
Flegel - Stilleben mit Gebäck und Zuckerwerk.jpg
Still life with cookies and sweets
Flegel - Aprikosenzweig.jpg
Branch with apricots
Flegel - Blumen, Römer und Stieglitz auf Weissbrotwecken in einer Nische.jpg
Flowers and a goldfinch on a loaf of white bread in a niche
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Still life with dessert
Flegel - Vorratskammer bei Kerzenlicht.jpg
Pantry by candlelight
Flegel - Tabakstilleben mit Kerze.jpg
Still life with a pipe by candlelight
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Georg Flegel is a German painter, founder of the German school of still life, as well as a painter of the Baroque Era, an era largely known for its still lifes of that time.
Flegel's style deviates from Netherlandish sophistication in favor of naturalistic precision, a tradition emanating from the nature studies of Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) and Hans Hoffmann (1545/50-1591/92) to the miniatures of Joris Hoefnagel , 1542–1601?) and drawings by Jacques de Gheyn (1565–1629).
Georg Flegel was born in Olomouc in Moravia / Olmütz, Moravia in 1566. It is known that he was the son of a shoemaker and was not a Catholic. Around 1580, he travels to Vienna, where he becomes an assistant to Lucas van Valckenborch I, a painter and draftsman. Both artists later moved to Frankfurt, a city that at that time was an important center of art. Working as an assistant to Lucas, Flegel added details to the paintings, such as fruits, flowers, and tableware.
Over a period of about 30 years (c. 1600-1630), Flegel painted 110 watercolor paintings, mostly still lifes. Georg Flegel specialized in still lifes depicting table scenes with an abundance of food, tableware, flowers, and occasional animals. In many paintings, he depicted insects, in particular beetles. Flegel's students included his own two sons, Friedrich (Friedrich, 1596/1597-1616) and Jacob/Jacob (probably Leonhard/Leonhard, 1602-1623), as well as the painter Jacob Marrel/Jacob Marrel.
Georg Flegel was a German Baroque painter known for his still lifes.
Flegel was born in Olomouc, Moravia, 1566. He was the son of a shoemaker, from a Protestant family, after 1580, when the Counter-Reformation began to take effect in Olomouc, he was forced to move to Vienna. There he became an assistant to the Flemish painter and draftsman Lucas van Valckenborch.
Flegel and his employer later moved to Frankfurt, which at that time was a well-known center for art and publishing. As an assistant, he added elements such as fruits, flowers, tableware and other details to Valckenborch's paintings.
Frankfurt publishers drew attention to the exact reproduction of flowers and fruits by Flegel, as well as watercolors by Dürer, still lifes by artists from the Netherlands in Frankfurt, and botanical and zoological illustrations by Joris Hoefnagel, Pieter van der Borch (Borcht) IV and Carl Clausius (Clusius ).
Over the course of 30 years (1600-1630), Flegel created 110 watercolor drawings, mostly still lifes, which often depict dining sets and foodstuffs, flowers, and sometimes animals.
Among his pupils were his own sons, Friedrich and Jacob, as well as the artists Jacob Marrel and Sebastian Stoskopff.
Georg Flegel died in Frankfurt am Main in 1638.
Georg Flegel (1566-1638) and Workshop van Lucas Valckenborch I (1535/45-1597)
On the market. Oil on canvas. 32 3/8 x 47 inches (82.2 x 119.4 cm).
On December 8, 2010, the painting was sold to a private collector for £61,250 ($96,163)
Still life with fish
Georg Flegel (1566-1638)
Still life with flowers in a niche. Irises, tulips, anemones, snake head hazel grouse, lilies, daffodils, carnations, turkish lilies, violets, rosemary, bluebells, pink roses, red peony, chrysanthemums, foxgloves, clematis, snapdragons and other flowers in a decorated pewter jar with black and red striped beetle, on a ledge in a stone niche with a cylindrical goblet glass of white wine, sliced roll, cherries, stag beetle and knife.
Canvas, oil
24 ½ x 17 ¾ inches (62.2 x 45 cm). The painting was sold at an auction in New York in 2006 for $4,048,000.
Still life. Lemons in a bowl, basket walnuts and hazelnuts, sliced lemon, knife. The mouse eats a nut wooden table, and cat .
Wood, oil
19 3/8 x 25 inches (49.2 x 63.5 cm). Sold in 2008 for £16,250 ($24,213)
