Abraham Bloemaert (1566 - 1651)

Bloemaert was an extremely versatile artist. He produced portraits and genre scenes, landscapes and history paintings with mainly mythological but also religious subjects. He first learned drawing with his father, architect Cornelis Bloemaert, and was later a pupil of Gerrit Splinter and Joos de Beer. He spent the years 1581/82–1585 in Paris, where he learned to work in the late mannerist style at the School of Fontainebleau and trained with teachers including Hieronymus Francken. At the start of his career he painted in the style of the Haarlem mannerists; his later work shows the influence of Caravaggio’s chiaroscuro.

Author: Habersatter Thomas

Literature: Ducke Astrid, Habersatter Thomas (Hrsg./Edi.): von | from 0 auf | to 100. Residenzgalerie Salzburg 1923-2023. Salzburg 2023, S./p. 108