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Pieter Post

{{short description|Dutch painter}}

{{hatnote|Pieter Post is also the Dutch name of Postman Pat.}}

image:Pieter Post (1608-1669), portrait by Pieter Nolpe.png

Image:Caesar van Everdingen Count Willem II of Holland Granting Privileges.jpg Granting Privileges to the Dike Wardens of Spaarndam in 1255 by Caesar van Everdingen (figures) and Pieter Post (architectural elements), 1654 (Gemeenlandshuis van Rijnland, Leiden)]]

Pieter Jansz Post (1 May 1608 – buried 8 May 1669) was a Dutch Golden Age architect, painter and printmaker.

Biography

Post was baptised in Haarlem, the son of a stained-glass painter and the older brother of painter Frans Post.{{cite web| title=The Getty: Pieter Post| url=http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=752&page=1|access-date=October 24, 2006 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20061213092222/http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=752&page=1 |archive-date = December 13, 2006}} He is credited with the creation of the Dutch baroque style of architecture, along with his longtime collaborator Jacob van Campen. Together they designed the Mauritshuis in the Hague.{{cite web|title=Post, Pieter — Encyclopædia Britannica|url=http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9061034/Pieter-Post|access-date=October 24, 2006}} According to Houbraken he was a famous architect who introduced his brother Frans to Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange, while he was working on plans for the Mauritshuis.{{in lang|nl}} [http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/houb005groo01_01/houb005groo01_01_0312.htm Pieter Post Biography] in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature

According to the RKD he became a member of the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke in 1623, and became painter and architect for Stadhouder Frederik Hendrik.[https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/64427 Pieter Post] in the RKD He was the overseer from 1640 for the new additions to Paleis Noordeinde in The Hague. From 1645 he was the architect for Frederik Hendrik for Huis ten Bosch, where he worked together with Jacob van Campen. He died in The Hague, aged 61.

His son Maurits became an architect, and his son Johan Post became a painter, and his daughter married the anatomist and collector Frederik Ruysch. His granddaughter Rachel Ruysch became a famous flower painter.

Architectural work

Gallery

File:Huis ten Bosch.jpg|Huis ten Bosch (the Hague), built 1645-1650

File:Den_Haag,_Mauritshuis_vanaf_Hofvijver_2006-05-29_16.12.JPG|Mauritshuis (The Hague)

File:Waag Leiden.jpg|De Waag Leiden

File:Gouda waaggebouw februari 2003.jpg|Kaaswaag Gouda

File:Den Haag - Prinsegracht 15.JPG|Dedel House (Huis Dedel) at Prinsegracht 15 in The Hague

File:Huis Zwanenburg te Halfweg 20090927.jpg|Gemeenlandshuis Zwanenburg, former seat of the Hoogheemraadschap van Rijnland waterboard, in Halfweg

File:Hofje van Nieuwkoop 002.jpg|Hofje van Nieuwkoop (Den Haag)

File:Bennebroek-hervormde kerk.jpg|Dutch Reformed church of Bennebroek, which was finished posthumously in 1680.

Image:DelftscheZwervers.jpg|One of the "towers" of the "Kruithuis" in Delft

File:Maastricht 2010-30-03 – Stadthaus am Markt - panoramio (cropped).jpg|Maastricht city hall, considered Post's most accomplished work. After a drawing by Pieter Post

References

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External links

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  • [http://www.artnet.com/artist/568163/pieter-jansz-post.html Pieter Post] on Artnet

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Category:1608 births

Category:1669 deaths

Category:Dutch Golden Age architects

Category:Dutch Golden Age painters

Category:Dutch male painters

Category:Painters from Haarlem

Category:Court architects

Category:17th-century Dutch architects

Category:Dutch Baroque architects