Willem Janszoon Blaeu - Biography and Offers

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* 1571 Alkmaar
† 1638 Amsterdam

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Willem Janszoon Blaeu
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Willem Janszoon Blaeu was born in Alkmaar in 1571. From 1594 to 1596 Blaeu was taught astronomy and cartography by his teacher Tycho Brahe. In 1603 the scholar moved to Amsterdam. Blaeu began to produce globes, maps, nautical charts as well as a world map, which was published in 1605. Blaeu was appointed the Dutch East India Company's official cartographer in 1633. Blaeu died in Amsterdam in 1638.

Record hammer prices at Ketterer Kunst

Auction 550 - Lot 38
Alexej von Jawlensky
Spanische Tänzerin, 1909
Sold: € 8,338,000 / $ 8,754,900

Auction 550 - Lot 19
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Tanz im Varieté, 1911
Sold: € 6,958,000 / $ 7,305,900

Auction 540 - Lot 33
Alexej von Jawlensky
Mädchen mit Zopf, 1910
Sold: € 6,383,000 / $ 6,702,150

Auction 535 - Lot 10
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Das blaue Mädchen in..., 1910
Sold: € 4,750,000 / $ 4,987,500

Auction 535 - Lot 6
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Hockende, 1910
Sold: € 4,290,000 / $ 4,504,500

Auction 535 - Lot 4
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Lesende (Else..., 1912
Sold: € 4,060,000 / $ 4,263,000

Auction 545 - Lot 43
Wassily Kandinsky
Murnau, 1908
Sold: € 3,920,000 / $ 4,116,000

Auction 560 - Lot 23
Max Beckmann
Großer mit Frauen und..., 1950
Sold: € 3,678,000 / $ 3,861,900

Auction 525 - Lot 243
Albert Oehlen
Ohne Titel (Triptychon), 1988
Sold: € 3,600,000 / $ 3,780,000

Auction 386 - Lot 25
Hermann Max Pechstein
Weib mit Inder auf..., 1910
Sold: € 3,480,000 / $ 3,654,000

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