AUWENFIELD NOTES
JOHNNY AUWENHUMAN
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Historical

Krabbetje

Little crab

The veldpaap has named you Krabbetje (Little crab).

You must accept the name.

Why this name

The room started with your hands. Krabbetje (Little crab) is the historical bentnaam for a painter whose hand the Bent would not leave unnamed. Bentnamen stuck to the body first. Your body put hand and work in view.

The historical echo

Jan Asselijn (after 1610–1652) bore Krabbetje for a right-hand disability. Rembrandt etched his portrait with the hands often omitted. Asselijn painted Italianate landscape and animals; The Threatened Swan is the famous later touchstone.

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Objects from the same world

Contextual links, not necessarily portraits of the name’s bearer.

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