Cecil van Haanen
Cecil van Haanen (3 November 1844 – 24 September 1914) was a Vienna-born Dutch portrait and genre painter, whose significant work was centred at Venice. Van Haanen was the son to landscape painter Remigius Adrianus Haanen (1812–1894) and Emilie Mayer von Alsó-Rußbach. He received early artistic training from his father and Friedrich Schilcher, and from April 1854 was educated at the pre-school of the Vienna Academy under Peter Johann Nepomuk Geiger.
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Cecil van Haanen
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- Name
- Cecil van Haanen
- Born
- 3 November 1844
- Birthplace
- Vienna, Austria
- Died
- 24 September 1914
- Occupation
- Painter, illustrator
- Fields
- portrait.
- Education
- Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
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Cecil van Haanen (3 November 1844 – 24 September 1914) was a Vienna-born Dutch portrait and genre painter, whose significant work was centred at Venice. Van Haanen was the son to landscape painter Remigius Adrianus Haanen (1812–1894) and Emilie Mayer von Alsó-Rußbach. He received early artistic training from his father and Friedrich Schilcher, and from April 1854 was educated at the pre-school of the Vienna Academy under Peter Johann Nepomuk Geiger.
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He attended the Karlsruhe Academy from 1863 to 1865, where he was taught by Ludwig des Coudres and Johann Wilhelm Schirmer. Later he was admitted to Karl von Piloty's school of painting in Munich, where he was taught by Hermann Anschütz, and became friends with the painter Wilhelm Leibl. In 1866 he moved to Antwerp where he stayed for six years. Here he was taught by Jozef Van Lerius, who introduced him to history and portrait painting, and genre painting which became the significant oeuvre of his later painting in Venice. Although living largely in Venice from 1873, he spent time in London working as a magazine illustrator. Haanen died in Vienna and was buried in Vienna Central Cemetery.
Cecil van Haanen studied at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Places of work recorded in the authority are Antwerp, Venice and Great Britain. Work by Cecil van Haanen is recorded in the collections of Belvedere, Auckland Art Gallery, Centraal Museum and Victoria and Albert Museum.
Beatific beauty by Cecil van Haanen (1844–1914) - oil on canvas - 68.5 x 56 cm. (27 x 22 in.)
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• Name — Cecil van Haanen • Born — 3 November 1844 • Birthplace — Vienna, Austria • Died — 24 September 1914 • Place of death — Vienna, Austria • Occupation — Painter, illustrator
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1844
Cecil van Haanen was born on 3 November 1844.
1914
Cecil van Haanen died on 24 September 1914.
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What Cecil van Haanen did, and where. Haanen worked at Great Britain. Haanen worked at Antwerp. Haanen worked at Venice. Haanen worked at Vienna. Recorded as having studied at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
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- 1.„undatierter handschriftlicher Lebenslauf, Archiv des Wiener Künstlerhauses“ (Zitiert nach Gabriele Röder, S. 3).
- 2.Gabriele Röder, S. 13.
- 3.Matrikel von Carl van Haanen (sic!) 1865.
- 4.Cecil van Haanen. Albertina, Wien. Zeichnungen, Ölskizzen, Gemälde. Ausstellung Frühjahr 1955, S. 4.
- 5.Gabriele Röder, S. 17.
- 6.Gabriele Röder, S. 9 und S. 26 ff.
- 7.Percy E. Pinkerton: Cecil van Haanen. In: The Magazin of Art. Band X. Casseel and Company, London, Paris, New York, Melbourne, 1887, S. 1. Siehe auch Seite 3 einen Stahlstich nach einer Fotografie Cecil van Haanens der Londoner Fotografen Elliot and Fry.
- 8.Gabriele Röder, S. 11.
- 9.Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München. Signatur: Autogr. Haanen, Cecil van.
- 10.Wienbibliothek im Rathaus. Signatur: 66479.
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