Carlos de Haes

Carlos de Haes
Born
Belgium
DiedJune 17, 1898(1898-06-17) (aged 69)
NationalitySpanish
Known forPainting
Notable workMonasterio de Piedra
MovementRealism

Carlos Sebastián Pedro Hubert de Haes (January 25, 1829 – June 17, 1898) was a Spanish painter from Belgium.[1] He was noted for the Realism in his landscapes, and was considered to be the "first contemporary Spanish artist able to capture something of a particularly Spanish 'essence' in his work".[2] He was cited along with Jenaro Perez Villaamil and Aureliano de Beruete as one of the three Spanish grand masters of landscape painting, the latter of which was his pupil.[3]

In the 1850s, Haes was involved in the rise of the Realist school of landscape. Coincidentally his landscape and wildlife paintings of the Monasterio de Piedra occurred at the time of an academic opening for the Painting School of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, the selection to be made by a landscape competition. In 1857 he became the first professor of landscape painting, the first in Spain to teach painting directly from nature. In 1860, he became an Academic at the Royal Academy. In 1876, he presented at the National Exhibition with La Canal de Mancorbo en los Picos de Europa ("The Canal of Mancorbo in the Picos de Europa") later acquired by the Spanish state to be part of the collection of the Museo del Prado, because of its significance as a realistic Spanish landscape painting.

Early years

Haes was born in Brussels to a family of bankers.[4] The family moved to Spain, settling in Málaga in 1835, where Haes studied with the Neoclassical portrait painter Luis de la Cruz y Ríos [es].[5] In 1850, Haes decided to continue his art training by studying with the great Flemish landscape masters. His encounter with Joseph Quinaux, who mentored Haes from 1850 through 1855,[6] influenced his painting outdoors, and defined his artistic works as a whole. In Brussels, he came in contact with other notable European painters at the annual exhibition of the Brussels Salon. He traveled throughout Holland, France, and Germany.[5]

Career

La canal de Mancorbo en los Picos de Europa ("The Canal of Mancorbo in the Picos de Europa"), 1876, by Carlos de Haes (Museo de Prado).

After returning to Spain, he entered the National Exhibition of Fine Arts, winning a third place medal for landscapes created around Brussels. Haes was involved in the 1850s rise of the Realist school of landscape.[7] It was coincidental that Haes' landscape and wildlife paintings of the Monasterio de Piedra occurred at the time of an academic opening for the Painting School of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, the selection to be made by a landscape competition. He received the academic appointment in 1857, becoming professor of landscape painting,[8] and becoming the first in Spain to teach painting directly from nature.[2] Among his students were Jaime Morera, Aureliano de Beruete, and Darío de Regoyos. Haes took his students with him to paint in the countryside; under his teaching the "painters proliferated and took advantage of the new railway system to explore the furthest corners of the nation's topography."[2][9] He influenced the Spanish novelist, Azorín, who perfected his writing technique by repeatedly viewing Haes' works at the museum.[2]

In addition to teaching, he continued his painting production, and in 1858, Haes received the first medal at the National Exhibition.[10] In 1860, he became an Academic at the Royal Academy,[7] and received a medal for his Memories of Andalusia. In 1862, he medaled with his landscape, Vista del Lozoya. In 1876, he again presented at the National Exhibition with La Canal de Mancorbo en los Picos de Europa ("The Canal of Mancorbo in the Picos de Europa"); its preparatory sketch was dated in situ in 1874.[11] Though it did not win a prize, it was acquired by the Spanish state to be part of the collection of the Museo del Prado, because of its significance as a realistic Spanish landscape painting.[8] He became ill in 1890 and died in Madrid in 1898.[4]

Style

Collection in the Museu d'Art Jaume Morera of Lleida

Following the ideals of an academic, Haes believed that the end result of art should be the truth found in the imitation of nature, the source of all beauty. The painter should imitate nature as closely as possible, and to do so, you must know nature and not rely on imagination. Leaving behind Romanticism, he was early to embrace the En plein air style,[12] working from outdoor preparatory sketches which were completed within a workshop. In terms of technique, his strokes have Impressionists connotations, though he lacks the treatment of light and color, and moves away from the spontaneity and immediacy of this art movement. Towards the end of his career, he developed a looser and more direct style associated with the Barbizon school.[4] The best of his extensive work (four thousand pictures and notes) can be seen in the Carmen Thyssen Museum in Málaga, the Lleida Museum, and the Museo del Prado, which received 183 works of Haes which were donated by the Museum of Modern Art. His work has been documented by the likes of Rubén Darío.[13]

See also

References

  1. ^ Caso, E. F., Les Orientalistes de l'école Espagnole, ACR edition, 1997, p. 128
  2. ^ a b c d Foster, David (27 December 2000). Current Debates on Hispanism: Spanish Literature. Taylor & Francis. pp. 68, 125, 126–. ISBN 978-0-8153-3563-4. Retrieved 6 October 2012.
  3. ^ Canizares-Esguerra, Jorge (9 November 2006). Nature, Empire, and Nation: Explorations of the History of Science in the Iberian World. Stanford University Press. p. 222. ISBN 978-0-8047-5544-3. Retrieved 10 October 2012.
  4. ^ a b c Levie, Simon H. (1996). From Zurbaran to Picasso: masterpieces from the collection of Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza. Skira. p. 163. ISBN 978-88-8118-137-7. Retrieved 6 October 2012.
  5. ^ a b Serra, Tomás Llorens (1999). Painting nature: genre and landscape painting from Brueghel to Van Gogh : Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza collection : 1 October 1999 to 16 January 2000. Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza. p. 193. ISBN 9788488474629. Retrieved 6 October 2012.
  6. ^ Museo del Prado (1996). The Prado Museum. Fonds Mercator. p. 631. ISBN 978-90-6153-371-9. Retrieved 6 October 2012.
  7. ^ a b Ginger, Andrew (30 August 2007). Painting and the Turn to Cultural Modernity in Spain: The Time of Eugenio Lucas Velázquez (1850–1870). Susquehanna University Press. pp. 351–. ISBN 978-1-57591-113-7. Retrieved 6 October 2012.
  8. ^ a b "Haes, Carlos de". Museo del Prado. Retrieved 6 October 2012.
  9. ^ Epps, Bradley S.; Cifuentes, Luis Fernández (2005). Spain Beyond Spain: Modernity, Literary History, And National Identity. Bucknell University Press. p. 177. ISBN 978-0-8387-5583-9. Retrieved 10 October 2012.
  10. ^ Serra, Tomás Llorens; Thyssen-Bornemisza, Museo (1999). Painting nature: genre and landscape painting from Brueghel to Van Gogh : Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza collection : 1 October 1999 to 16 January 2000. Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza. p. 152. ISBN 9788488474629. Retrieved 10 October 2012.
  11. ^ "On-line gallery Reference number P04390". Museo del Prado. Retrieved 6 October 2012.
  12. ^ Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (2001). Landscapes from Brueghel to Kandinsky: the exhibition in honour of the collector Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza. Hatje Cantz Publishers. p. 222. ISBN 9783775711074. Retrieved 6 October 2012.
  13. ^ Acereda, Alberto; Guevara, Rigoberto (2004). Modernism, Rubén Darío, and the Poetics of Despair. University Press of America. p. 292. ISBN 978-0-7618-2900-3. Retrieved 10 October 2012.
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