Tuesday, August 10, 2021

Hans von Aachen (Amorous Fantasies in Paint)

Hans von Aachen
The Judgment of Paris
1590
oil on canvas
Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama

Hans von Aachen
Pallas Athena, Venus (with Golden Apple) and Juno 
1593
oil on canvas
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Hans von Aachen
The Three Graces
ca. 1604
oil on copper
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Hans von Aachen
Tarquin and Lucretia
ca. 1600
oil on canvas
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Hans von Aachen
Jupiter, Antiope and Cupid
ca. 1595-98
oil on copper
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Hans von Aachen
The Amazement of the Gods
(Jupiter aloft, embracing his daughter Minerva)
ca. 1590-1600
oil on copper
National Gallery, London

Hans von Aachen
The Triumph of Truth
ca. 1598
oil on copper
Detroit Institute of Arts

Hans von Aachen
Bacchus, Ceres and Cupid
ca. 1595-1605
oil on canvas
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Hans von Aachen
Bacchus, Venus and Cupid
ca. 1595-1600
oil on canvas
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Hans von Aachen
Venus and Adonis
ca. 1574-88
oil on canvas
Harvard Art Museums

Hans von Aachen
Couple with a Mirror
before 1615
oil on copper
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Hans von Aachen
The Procuress
ca. 1605-1610
oil on panel
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Hans von Aachen
Two Laughing Men (Self Portrait)
ca. 1574
oil on panel
Olomouc Museum of Art, Kroměříž, Czech Republic

Hans von Aachen
Perseus and Andromeda
ca. 1600-1610
oil on alabaster
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Hans von Aachen
Liberation of Andromeda
ca. 1600-1610
oil on alabaster
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Hans von Aachen (1552-1615) – German painter from Cologne; trained in the Netherlands.  While working in Florence, he recommended himself to the Emperor Rudolf II in Prague by sending him a portrait of the sculptor Giovanni Bologna.  In 1597 he became official portraitist to Rudolf.  On Rudolf's death in 1612 he remained in the service of the Emperor Matthias.  He is now chiefly remembered for his religious, mythological and allegorical works, in a sophisticated Mannerist style akin to [Bartholomeus] Spranger's, and, through prints, nearly as influential.

– Erika Langmuir and Norbert Lynton, The Yale Dictionary of Art and Artists (2000)