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Hendrick Avercamp Biography

Holland Paintings Artist and draftsman
born 1585 - died 1634

Also known as: Hendrick Berentsz. de Stom van Kampen Avercamp, Hendrick Berentsz. de Stomme van Kampen Avercamp, Hendrik Avercamp, Hendrick de Stom tot Campen, Hendrick Stom tot Campen, Hendrick Stom van Campen, Hendrick Stomme van Campen, Hendrick van Campen, Hendrick Vander Stom.

Holland painter, active in Kampen, the most famous exponent of the Hendrick Avercamp winter landscape. He was deaf and dumb and known as de Stomme van Kampen (the mute of Kampen). As one of the first landscape painters of the 17th-century Dutch school, Hendrick Avercamp artist links the archaic decorative conception of Flemish origins and the new realist and objective ambitions developped in Holland by Essaias van de Velde and Jan van Goyen. Hendrick Avercamp paintings are colorful and lively, with carefully observed skaters, tobogganers, golfers, and pedestrians. Hendrick Avercamp art enjoyed great popularity and sold Hendrick Avercamp drawings, many of which are tinted with water-color, as finished pictures to be pasted into the albums of collectors (an outstanding collection is at Windsor Castle). His nephew and pupil Barent Avercamp (1612-79) carried on his style in an accomplished manner.

Hendrick Avercamp artist was born in Amsterdam in a house next to the Nieuwe Kerk, and was baptized in the Oude Kerk on 27 January 1585.

During his apprenticeship in Amsterdam, Hendrick Avercamp came under the influence of the Flemish Holland paintings artists of mannerist landscapes who were then living in the city (emigrated for religious reasons at the end of the 16th century), notably Gillis van Coninxloo (1544-1607) and David Vinckboons (1576-1630/1633). It has been suggested on stylistic grounds that Vinckboons may have been another of his teachers, but no documentation of such a relationship exists.

From earliest Hendrick Avercamp paintings, however--the first dated examples of which come from 1601--his style is quite individual, and is most strongly connected not with any Amsterdam trends, but with the Holland paintings of the minor Kampen artist Gerrit van der Horst (1581/1582-1629). By 28 January 1614 Avercamp was back in Kampen, where Hendrick Avercamp seems to have remained until his death in May 1634. There, in relative isolation from the mainstreams of Holland Hendrick Avercamp art, He devoted himself almost entirely to the oil painting of Hendrick Avercamp winter scenes, and specifically to depictions of crowds of people engaging in a wide range of activities on frozen rivers. Such scenes were a popular theme of Holland paintings as early as the 16th century among Pieter I and Pieter II Bruegel, the Grimmer and the Valckenborch, Gillis Mostaert and Sébastien Vranck.

In later years, atmosphere became important in his work. The horizon was brought down. As with Van Goyen, circular frames were progressively replaced with rectangular ones with a large width, a popular format among the 1620-30 Holland paintings artists such as Dirck Hals, Codde, Duck or Duyster.

Hendrick Avercamp artist had no important direct followers, although his nephew Barent Avercamp (c. 1612-1679) was his pupil and imitated him heavily (one of Hendrick Avercamp paintings is in the Louvre, in the Croy collection), as were Arent Arentsz. (called Cabel) (1585/1586-1635) and Dirck Hardenstein II (1620-after 1674). Adam van Breen's style was so close from his that their Holland paintings are often confused (an example is at the Louvre). Christoffel van Berghe (the mysterious C.V.B.) was active in Middelburg and has a similar Hendrick Avercamp art exhibited in the Mayer van den Bergh Museum in Antwerp.