Cornelis Lieste (26 October 1817 - 24 July 1861) was a Dutch painter and

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. He specialized in Romantic style landscapes.

Biography

In 1835, his father enrolled him at the

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, where he studied drawing with Jan Reekers (1790-1858). From 1837 to 1838, he learned landscape painting from Nicolaas Johannes Roosenboom and, in 1839, won a silver medal at an exhibition in

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. This was followed by a study trip to Belgium and Germany. Many of his sketches were made in the dunes of

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. While travelling in Germany, he may have visited

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and studied briefly with

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. In 1846, he was named a member of the artists' society, " Kunst Zij Ons Doel", and was given some administrative functions. Later that year, he was appointed a member of the Royal Academy of Art in Amsterdam. The following year, he became a

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and took a painting trip to the

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mountains. He was one of the artists who participated in decorating the "Parkzaal" at the during the celebration of Rembrandt's 400th birthday in 1852. He set off travelling again in 1853; visiting the

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region, Switzerland and North Italy; painting some of his few mountain landscapes. From 1854 to 1856, he was a regular guest at the artists' colony in

Oosterbeek Oosterbeek is a village in the eastern part of Netherlands. It is located in the municipality of Renkum in the province of Gelderland, about west of Arnhem. The oldest part of Oosterbeek is the Benedendorp (Lower Village), on the northern bank ...

. Just before his death, he paid an extended visit to

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and

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, where he sketched the

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s in addition to his usual landscapes. In 1858, he married Johanna Cornelia Burman (1838-1887), but died two years later of an unspecified "chest disease"; leaving behind a two-year-old child, with another on the way. Among his best known students, one may mention Hendrik Dirk Kruseman van Elten and

Paul Gabriël Paul Joseph Constantin Gabriël or Paul Gabriël (5 July 1828 – 23 August 1903) was a painter, draftsman, watercolorist, and etcher who belonged to the Hague School. Biography Gabriël was born in Amsterdam, the son of the sculptor and paint ...

. His works may be seen at the

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, the

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, the

Teylers Museum Teylers Museum () is an Art museum, art, Natural history museum, natural history, and science museum in Haarlem, Netherlands. Established in 1778, Teylers Museum was founded as a centre for contemporary art and science. The historic centre of the ...

, the

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Municipal Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen () is an art museum in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. The name of the museum is derived from its two most important donors, Frans Jacob Otto Boijmans and Daniël George van Beuningen. The museum is located a ...

and the Stedelijk Museum Zwolle.

Selected works

File:Cornelis Lieste - Landschap met eenzaam koppel bij zonsondergang.jpg, ''Landscape with a Couple Alone at Sunset'' File:Avondstemming met herder, SK-A-5031.jpg, ''Evening Mood with Shepherd'' File:CLieste.jpg, ''Heide bij avond'' File:Comomeer.jpg, ''At Lake Como'' File:Cornelis Lieste - Gelders heidelandschap - 1454 (MK) - Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen.jpg, ''Heathland in Guelders'' File:Cornelis Lieste - Landschap met maansikkel.jpg, ''Landscape with Crescent Moon'' File:Cornelis Lieste - Zonovergoten landschap.jpg, ''Sunlit Landscape'' File:Cornelis Lieste Reiter in weiter Landschaft.jpg, ''Riders in a Wide Landscape'' File:Cornelis Lieste Sommerabend.jpg, ''Summer Evening on the River Bank'' File:Heathland near Oosterbeek by Cornelis Lieste.jpg, ''Heathland Landscape near Oosterbeek'' File:Lieste, ijsgezicht bij zonsondergang.jpg, ''Ice Skating at Sunset'' File:Wijds heidelandschap.jpg, ''Wide Heathland Landscape''

Sources

* Benno Tempel, Ronald de Leeuw: ''Het Romantiek Boek''. Waanders Uitgevers, Zwolle, 2006. * ''De romantische ziel''. Catalogue, Teylers Museum, 2014, (biography by Frouckje van Hijum). * ''Cornelis Lieste (1817-1861) - Schilder van het licht''. Catalogue, Erno Kiljan, Antoon Erftemeijer. Kleve, B.C. Koekkoek Haus, 2016.

External links

More works by Lieste
@ ArtNet

@ the B.C. Koekkoek-Haus {{DEFAULTSORT:Lieste, Cornelis 1817 births 1861 deaths Dutch painters Dutch landscape painters Dutch lithographers Painters from Haarlem