Jan Micker

Jan Micker: Vogelvlucht - Amsterdam from a bird's eye view (around 1652)

Jan Fransz Dammeroen and Jan Micker: Tobias and the Archangel Raphael

Jan Christiaensz. Micker (* around 1599 in Amsterdam ; † 1664 ibid) was a Dutch landscape painter of the Golden Age . Christiaensz. is the short form for Christiaenszoon and means son of Christiaen.

life and work

Jan Mickers year of birth is not certain. According to his own statements, he was 26 years old in 1626 and over 33 years old in 1631. The years between 1598 and 1600 can therefore be considered as the year of birth. On July 16, 1626, he became engaged to Annetie Pieters. His brother Barent Micker (1615–87) was married to Lijsbeth, the youngest sister of Jan Baptist Weenix . In 1653 he lived on the Prinsengracht in Amsterdam opposite the Noorderkerk in a house called t Wapen van Amsterdam . At the end of his life he lived on Lindengracht in the Jordaan district . His tomb is in the Noorderkerk, where he was buried on April 12 or 14, 1664.

Jan Micker worked as a painter from 1618 until his death. He was the first teacher of Jan Baptist Weenix and painted the staffage in paintings by Jan Fransz Dammeroen , Hans Jurriaensz van Baden and Joachim Govertsz Camphuysen . His most famous painting is Vogelvlucht , which shows Amsterdam from a bird's eye view. The picture was taken around 1652 and is now in the Amsterdam Museum . A painting by Cornelis Anthonisz served as a template . from 1538. So the painting does not show the topology of Amsterdam around 1652. At this point in time the city had already been expanded to the west by the three canals Herengracht , Keizersgracht and Prinsengracht and the Jordaan district.

literature

• Kenneth Clark : Landscape into art . Murray, London 1991, ISBN 0-7195-3610-3
• Christopher Brown: Dutch landscape: the early years . The National Gallery, London 1986, ISBN 0-947645-05-5
• Wolfgang Stechow: Dutch landscape painting of the seventeenth century . Hacker Art Books, New York 1980, ISBN 0-87817-268-8

Web links

Commons : Jan Micker  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Jan Micker on the website of the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie
• Jan Micker on artnet