Avercamp Winter Landscape
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Avercamp winter landscape. Avercamp had originally been taught in amsterdam by pieter isacksz and specialised in winter landscapes. Avercamp s winter landscape with iceskaters has a whole range of characters doing different things on the dutch ice if there is one picture that epitomises the harshness of a netherlands winter it. Avercamp has included several anecdotes in his winter landscape. Avercamp s paintings are colorful and lively with carefully crafted images of the people in the landscape.
A typical feature of his early work is the high horizon. 24 x 39 2 cm in an early seventeenth century possibly the original dutch cassetta frame with an ogee frieze. 1608 oil on panel h 77 3cm w 131 9cm more details the high vantage point of this painting turns it into a sampler of human and animal activity during a harsh winter. See a bare behind emerging from a small boat as well as the figure of a man relieving himself against a tree another in a ditch and a couple making love in a hay stack.
Avercamp s early landscapes have a clear narrative in style often containing risqué anecdotes. His works give a vivid depiction of sport and leisure in the netherlands in the beginning of the 17th century. As one of the first landscape painters of the 17th century dutch school he specialized in painting the netherlands in winter. Hendrick avercamp 1585 1634 who was born in amsterdam was the undisputed master of winter landscape painting during the dutch golden age.
Hendrick avercamp amsterdam 1585 1634 kampen a winter landscape with figures on the ice by a koek en zopie tent oil on panel 9 x 15 in. His dynamic panoramic scenes usually painted on. This painting shows ice skaters of all sorts enjoying a day on a frozen river. People dressed up stand among villagers going about their daily chores.
He adopted the flemish tradition which was continued in amsterdam by gilles van coninxloo and pieter vinckboons. Hundreds of people are out on the ice most of them for pleasure others working out of dire necessity. Winter landscape with skaters is a c 1608 oil on oak painting by the dutch artist hendrick avercamp in the collection of the rijksmuseum in amsterdam. The way the painter has signed this.
Many of avercamp s paintings feature people ice skating on frozen lakes. Amsterdam netherlands hendrick avercamp turned the winter landscape into a subject in its own right.