{"id":18887,"date":"2018-10-19T00:56:24","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T23:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=18887"},"modified":"2018-10-19T00:56:24","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T23:56:24","slug":"the-art-of-henricus-jansen-1867-1921","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2018\/10\/19\/the-art-of-henricus-jansen-1867-1921\/","title":{"rendered":"The art of Henricus Jansen, 1867\u20131921"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This week\u2019s post is another by Sander Bink about a neglected artist of the Dutch fin de si\u00e8cle<\/em>. Once again, this is an artist whose work was new to me. The Mucha-like style of the later pictures (and the one above from the same series) are especially good. My thanks again to Sander for the post.<\/p>\n

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Henricus Jansen (1867\u20131921) was a Dutch painter, graphic artist and illustrator who used \u2018Henricus\u2019 as his artist’s name, \u2018Jansen\u2019 being a very common and decidedly unsexy surname. He originated from The Hague where Art Nouveau and symbolism flourished in the 1890s more than any other Dutch city.<\/p>\n

In the little that has been written about Henricus he is usually considered not to be avant-garde or progressive enough to be an \u2018important artist\u2019 (whatever that may mean). He is, however, mentioned in the standard reference work Symbolism in Dutch Art<\/em> by Polak from 1955. Extensive studies have never been published about him and my main source of information about his life and work is an unpublished university thesis from 1988 by Louis Baeten of which I happen to have a copy. Baeten had spoken to Henricus’s daughter who was then still alive. According to the thesis Henricus must have made hundreds of drawings and paintings but they seem to be quite rare nowadays and seldom come to auction.<\/p>\n

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For example, Henricus visited Tunisia in 1901 where Baeten says he produced more than 67 pastels and drawings of which “only seven survive”. These were exhibited in The Hague in 1901, and Leiden in 1907. One of these is depicted here from a private collection: a charming, somewhat cartoon-like ink drawing of three Tunisian male figures.<\/p>\n

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From 1887 till 1892 Henricus lived in Paris where he mingled in the bohemian and artistic circles around Le Chat Noir, and knew people like\u00a0Rodolphe Salis and Paul Verlaine. The drawings and illustrations he produced from around 1890 are strongly influenced by Parisian graphic artists like Steinlen, Grasset and Willette, uncommon models in Dutch art of the 1890s. Examples like the drawing of a lady in an antique market (above) are to be found in his illustrations for a book by Johan Gram,\u00a0‘s-Gravenhage in onzen tijd<\/em> (The Hague nowadays<\/em>) from 1893.<\/p>\n

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More Symbolist in style, and therefore probably more of interest to { feuilleton } readers, are his illustrations for the popular magazine Elsevier\u2019s<\/em>. The picture shown here is a lithograph he made for the poem \u2018Paulinus van Nola\u2019 by the Flemish poet Pol de Mont, published in 1895.<\/p>\n

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But his chef d\u2019oeuvre<\/em> is a series of lithographs inspired by the medieval folk song Heer Halewijn<\/em> (Lord Halewijn<\/em>), published in 1904 and exhibited in The Hague the same year, of which three are depicted here (from the collection Van der Peppel.) The most famous of the series is plate number sixteen in which Lord Halewijn’s head is decapitated by a charming lady. It is obviously inspired by Beardsley\u2019s Salom\u00e9 but is made with an entirely different technique and in colours. There is also a touch of Puvis de Chavannes and Carlos Schwabe to them. They are among the finest examples of Dutch fin de si\u00e8cle<\/em> graphic art.<\/p>\n

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Previously on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 The art of Antoon van Welie, 1866\u20131956<\/a>
\n\u2022 The art of Simon Moulijn, 1866\u20131948<\/a>
\n\u2022 Ren\u00e9 Gockinga revisited<\/a>
\n\u2022 Gockinga\u2019s Bacchanal and an unknown portrait of Fritz Klein<\/a>
\n\u2022 More from the Decadent Dutch<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week\u2019s post is another by Sander Bink about a neglected artist of the Dutch fin de si\u00e8cle. Once again, this is an artist whose work was new to me. The Mucha-like style of the later pictures (and the one above from the same series) are especially good. My thanks again to Sander for the … Continue reading “The art of Henricus Jansen, 1867\u20131921”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42,48,44,45],"tags":[3449,136,9746,1575,2055,3964,9747,123,3961],"class_list":["post-18887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-illustrators","category-painting","category-symbolists","tag-carlos-schwabe","tag-fin-de-siecle","tag-henricus-jansen","tag-paul-verlaine","tag-puvis-de-chavannes","tag-rene-gockinga","tag-rodolphe-salis","tag-salome","tag-sander-bink"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4UD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}