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Jan Steen was born as the son of a brewer in Leiden (Netherlands) in 1626. The painter studied under Dirck Hals at the University of Leiden in 1646. In Utrecht Steen was N. Kupfer's student. Later he took lessons by A. van Ostede in Haarlem. In 1648 Jan Steen was the co-founder of the Painters Guild St. Lucas in Leiden which he left after his marriage with Jan van Goyen's daughter in order to work in The Hague until 1653. In 1679 he died in Leiden and was burried on February 3rd .

Record hammer prices at Ketterer Kunst

Auction 550 - Lot 38
Alexej von Jawlensky
Spanische Tänzerin, 1909
Sold: € 8,338,000 / $ 9,005,040

Auction 550 - Lot 19
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Tanz im Varieté, 1911
Sold: € 6,958,000 / $ 7,514,640

Auction 540 - Lot 33
Alexej von Jawlensky
Mädchen mit Zopf, 1910
Sold: € 6,383,000 / $ 6,893,640

Auction 535 - Lot 10
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Das blaue Mädchen in..., 1910
Sold: € 4,750,000 / $ 5,130,000

Auction 535 - Lot 6
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Hockende, 1910
Sold: € 4,290,000 / $ 4,633,200

Auction 535 - Lot 4
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Lesende (Else..., 1912
Sold: € 4,060,000 / $ 4,384,800

Auction 545 - Lot 43
Wassily Kandinsky
Murnau, 1908
Sold: € 3,920,000 / $ 4,233,600

Auction 560 - Lot 23
Max Beckmann
Großer mit Frauen und..., 1950
Sold: € 3,678,000 / $ 3,972,240

Auction 525 - Lot 243
Albert Oehlen
Ohne Titel (Triptychon), 1988
Sold: € 3,600,000 / $ 3,888,000

Auction 386 - Lot 25
Hermann Max Pechstein
Weib mit Inder auf..., 1910
Sold: € 3,480,000 / $ 3,758,400

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