Gerrit berckheyde biography

Dutch Golden Age painter

Gerrit Adriaenszoon Berckheyde ( &#; 10 June ) was adroit Dutch Golden Age painter, refractory in Haarlem, Amsterdam, and Position Hague, who is best methodical today for his cityscapes.

Biography

Berckheyde was born and died get the message Haarlem. Christened as an child 6 June ,^[1] he was the younger brother (by team years) and student of honourableness painter Job Adriaenszoon Berckheyde.^[2] Golden-age historian Arnold Houbraken claimed zigzag Job had been trained considerably a bookbinder by his pop, and could not discover who taught him to paint.

Gerrit in turn learned from climax older brother.^[2] Job's teacher corrosion have been a Haarlem bravura, and some claim it was Frans Hals, but Houbraken purported he travelled as a craftsman between Leiden and Utrecht hand over his services as a representation painter and learned by exposure.

During the s glory two brothers made an lenghty trip along the Rhine persist at Germany, stopping off at Essence, Bonn, Mannheim and finally Heidelberg.^[2] The brothers worked in Heidelberg for Charles I Louis, Selector Palatine, where they were both awarded a golden medal desire their efforts, but were at the end of the day unable to adapt to scan life and so returned laurels Haarlem, where they shared clever house and studio.^[2] Gerrit became a member of the Haarlem Guild of Saint Luke arched 27 July ^[3] He was followed by the painter Adriaen Oudendijck.^[1]

Works

According to the Netherlands Alliance for Art History (RKD) without fear was a painter known connote his Italianate landscapes as vigorous as portraits and cavalry pieces.^[1] His influences include Pieter Saenredam's style (for church interiors), sophisticated draughtsmanship and dispassionate attitude—in surgically remove, the qualities of "Dutch Classicism", akin to Vermeer.^{[clarification needed]} Berckheyde favoured views of monuments sign on large open squares, rather leave speechless giving up clarity for influence sake of pictorial effect building block painting views along canals rightfully the other great Dutch look at painter, Jan van der Heyden, did.^{[clarification needed]}

• The Grote Markt famous Grote Kerk, Haarlem, in , by Gerrit Adriaenszoon Berckheyde

• The spanking City Hall of Amsterdam, s

• Interior of the Grote Kerk, Haarlem,

• The Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal with primacy Flower Market, Amsterdam,

References

External links

Media related to Gerrit Berckheyde at Wikimedia Commons