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Hendrick Avercamp , (1585 - May 15th 1634), is a painter Dutch.

Biography

Born with Amsterdam (Netherlands) not far from the " Nieuwe Kerk" , Avercamp is baptized the January 27th 1585 in the " Oude Kerk" city. His/her father (C. 1557 - 1603) had married in 1583 the girl of the Latin principal where he taught. The following year it is recorded as apothecary come from Plank and is established like such in 1586 with Kampen (Netherlands).

For its artistic education, Avercamp was sent in formation in Amsterdam in the portraitist Danish Pieter Isaacks (1569-1625). In the sale preceding the return into 1607 by its professor to Denmark, Avercamp is identified among the purchasers like " the dumb man of Pieter Isaacks". In another document of 1622 it is named " Hendrick Avercamp the muet". No indication makes it possible to suppose that " of Stomme van Kampen" (the dumb man of Kampen), according to its nickname, that is to say also deaf.

During its years of Avercamp training is influenced by the painting of landscape practiced by the Flemish painters installed with Amsterdam, Gillis van Coninxloo and David Vinckboons. The first drawings which one knows of Avercamp register indeed in this tradition.

Avercamp probably turned over to live in Kampen in 1613. He knew a great popularity of alive sound. He sold his drawings, of which much coloured a mixture of watercolour and gouache, like images to be stuck in albums of collection. Hendrick Avercamp died in Kampen where it was buried with the " Sint Nicolaaskerk".

Work

Avercamp is one of the great painters of the Dutch school of the 17th century, specialist in the scenes of winter, in the surroundings of Kampen and on the Ijsel river. The tables of Avercamp, alive and coloured, put in scene of many characters of all classes finely drawn.

Its first works express its interest for the narrative details and the painting of kind in the taste of Pieter Bruegel Old the, father of Flemish painting, creative of the tradition of the winter landscape ( Paysage of winter with skaters and trap door with birds , 1565, royal Musée of Brussels), of which it had to know the Paysage of winter (Museum of Vienna, Austria). One finds at Avercamp of the elements characteristic of this technique, horizons high placed, decorative network of the branches of very large trees, rates/rhythms of the space progression since the foregrounds, scattering of the color in the composition.

In its Avercamp maturity sticks more to the evocation of the winter light filtered by the fogs which dissolve the distances. Its contribution is regarded as essential in the development of the Dutch painting of landscape.

Barent Avercamp (Kampen 1612-1672 or 1679), nephew and raise of Hendrick Avercamp or its younger brother, worked in the same style as him, on rather similar subjects, but, estime-t-on, with less spirit.

Museums and collections

" Rijksmuseum ", Amsterdam (" Landscape of hiver" , WebMuseum and " Scene of hiver" , WebMuseum)
" Mauritshuis ", $the Hague (" Hiver"), WebMuseum *" Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller" , Otterlo (" Scene of snow), WebMuseum *" Museum Boymans-van Beuningen " , Rotterdam (" Scene of hiver")
" Kunsthistorisches museum " , Vienna, Austria (" Landscape of hiver"), WebMuseum *" Staatliche Museen ", Berlin
" Wallraf-Richartz museum" , Cologne (" Landscape of hiver" , WebMuseum *" Staatlich Museen" , Schwerin (" Landscape of snow), WebMuseum *" Museum of art and histoire" , Geneva (" Scene of winter in Yselmuiden"), WebMuseum *" National Gallery " , London (" Scene on the ice close to a ville" , and " Scene of hiver" *" National Gallery off Scotland" , Edinburgh (" Landscape of winter with personnages")
" National Gallery off Ireland" , Dublin (" Scene on the glace")
" Museum of Beautiful-Arts" , Budapest (" Landscape of snow with patineurs"), WebMuseum *" Pinacoteca Ambrosiana" , Milan (" Landscape of hiver"), WebMuseum *" Billedgalleri" , Bergen, Norway, (" Landscape of hiver")
" Museum Pouchkine " , Moscow *Lausanne.
" National Gallery off art" , Washington DC (" Scene on the glace" ) or WebMuseum *Un certain number of drawings, of which oldest known of Avercamp, dated January 28th, 1613, are preserved in the collection Frits Lugt at the Dutch Institute of Paris.

The queen Elisabeth II has a remarkable collection of works of Avercamp to the Château of Windsor, in England.

Others

Bernard Ceysson puts in report/ratio certain aspects of not-figurative paintings of Manessier (the " landscapes hollandais" from 1955-1956) with the work of Avercamp. Fête in Zeeland appears " thus to him; to have to be put in parallel with the Winter of Hendrick Avercamp". " One sait" , he, " add; that Manessier painted, in homage to this artist, small a étude" , dated 1969, " including in its form in tondo that of Scene of winter with skaters close to a castle " $the Hague. ( Manessier , texts of Bernard Ceysson, Jean-Marie Lhôte and Christine Manessier, the Rebirth of the Book, Turned, 2000, p.22, ISBN 2804604217)

See too

Internal bonds

Century of Dutch gold

External bonds

Avercamp on WebMuseum
Avercamp on the Web Gallery off art]
Avercamp in Rijksmuseum of Amsterdam
Hendrick Avercamp in Artcyclopedia

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