Barent Avercamp

Barent Avercamp also Berend or Bernard Avercamp called (* 1612 / 13 in Kampen , † before 24. October 1679 in Kampen) was a Dutch painter , draftsman and timber merchants.

Eldest son of Peter Avercamp and Elisabeth van Ingen. Raised in Zwolle (1615–1626), Barent lived in Kampen from 1626 and was a student of his uncle Hendrick Avercamp , whose style he consistently continued. In 1640 he married Mechtelt Hoberinck's first marriage. In the same year he moved to Zutphen . From 1650 he lived again in Kampen. In 1658 he married Aeltien Gerrits for the second time.

In addition to painting, Barent also traded in wood, was a co-owner of a mill and owned a pot foundry. Several times he held honorary positions. In 1656, 1662 and 1677 he was appointed dean of the Kampen artists' guild. Both as an entrepreneur and as a painter, he was in prosperity and reputation.

For a long time he stuck to his uncle's style and color scheme and mainly created multi-figure winter and ice scenes, which, however, did not quite reach Hendrick's works. It was only after 1650 that he reduced the areas depicted, the people depicted, and switched to more toned colors.

Works

• Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum
  • Pleasures on the ice.
• Atlanta, High Museum
  • Pleasures on the ice.
• Berlin, Gemäldegalerie
  • Winter landscape with a frozen river. around 1650
• Boston, Museum of Fine Arts
  • Ice skaters on a frozen river. around 1650
• The Hague, Mauritshuis
  • Pleasures on the ice.
• Enschede, Rijksmuseum Twenthe
  • Ice pleasure.
• Groningen, Groninger Museum
  • Winter landscape with ice pleasure.
• Kampen, Stedelijk Museum
  • Ice landscape. 1663
• Leipzig, Museum of Fine Arts
  • Ice landscape. 1655
• Manchester, Manchester Art Gallery
  • River landscape with fishermen. 1650 (loan from the Coll. Mr. and Mrs. Assheton Bennett)
• Oldenburg, Lower Saxony State Museums
  • Winter landscape
• Paris, Musee National du Louvre
  • Winter scene near Kampen.
• Zutphen, Stedelijk Museum
  • Ice fun in front of Zutphen. (attributed)
• Whereabouts unknown
  • Ice pleasure in front of a city wall. (auctioned on July 3, 1997 at Sotheby's in London)

exhibition

• 1982: Hendrick Avercamp & Barent Avercamp. Frozen Silence: Paintings from Museum and Private Collections , Rijksmuseum , Amsterdam

Literature (selection)

• Gemäldegalerie Berlin - Catalog of the exhibited paintings , 1975 Berlin
• Clara J. Welcker: Hendrick Avercamp 1585-1634 Bijgenaamd "De Stomme Van Campen" en Barent Avercamp 1612-1679 Schilders Tot Campen . 1979 Davaco, the Netherlands
• Rijksmuseum Amsterdam : Hendrick Avercamp & Barent Avercamp. Frozen Silence: Paintings from Museums and Private Collections , K & V Watermann, Amsterdam 1982. ISBN 90-70598-01-9

Web links

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