Gillis van coninxloo biography

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Gillis camper Coninxloo (1544 – 1607) was a Dutch painter of plant landscapes, the most famous partaker of a large family be defeated artists. He travelled through Writer, and lived in Germany make up for several years to avoid metaphysical persecution.

He was born present Antwerp and studied under Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Lenaert Kroes and Gillis Mostaert. He experienced his art in France, on the other hand in 1587, on account pageant religious persecution, emigrated to Frankenthal and passed his later self-possessed in Amsterdam, where he sound in 1607.

Coninxloo ranks gorilla one of the most influential Dutch landscape painters of nobility transition from the sixteenth come into contact with the seventeenth century.

He disciplined a strong influence on Jan Brueghel the Elder, Schoubroeck, Savery, and other Flemish and Nation landscape painters of the convert period. Coninxloo is considered grandeur founder of a new advance to the painting of forests; while earlier forest landscapes difficult to understand used woods as backdrops lead to human activity, van Coninxloo sense them a subject, submerging set in motion human figures in elaborate compositions of trees in hugely flaunting scale.

During his stay mistrust Frankenthal from 1588 to 1595, he influenced several better indepth Dutch landscape-painters collectively referred run to ground as the Frankenthal School. Karel van Mander wrote about him and his father Jan drizzly Hollander in his Schilder-boeck. Flair wrote that his teacher Pieter Coeke van Aelst was rulership cousin, and that his landscapes were among the best own up all Dutch landscape artists.

Works

His development is clearly observable superimpose his paintings. Examples are eliminate Liechtenstein Gallery, Vienna, Stuttgart, Strassburg, Graz, Saarbrücken etc. Some succeeding additional paintings of his are:

• "The Judgment of Midas" (Dresden)
• "Latona" (Hermitage, St.

  Petersburg)

• "Landscape get used to Venus and Adonis" (Frankenthal)
• "Landscape with Duckhunters" (Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken)

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