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On a Day Like Today, Dutch Painter Hendrick Avercamp was Born, Glitch Art
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“Creativity takes courage” ~Henri Matisse.
It was on January 27, 1585…
When Hendrick Avercamp was born. He was a Dutch painter.
Avercamp was born in Amsterdam, where he studied with the Danish-born portrait painter Pieter Isaacks (1569–1625).
In 1608 he moved from Amsterdam to Kampen in the province of Overijssel. Avercamp was mute and was known as “de Stomme van Kampen” (the mute of Kampen).
Avercamp was the first Dutch artist to specialize in paintings of winter landscapes featuring people enjoying the ice.
Avercamp was deaf and mute and was known as “de Stomme van Kampen” (the mute of Kampen).
One of the first landscape painters of the 17th-century Dutch school. He specialized in painting the Netherlands in winter.
Avercamp’s paintings are colorful and lively, with carefully crafted images of the people in the landscape.
Many of Avercamp’s paintings feature people ice skating on frozen lakes.
