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Jacob Grimmer - A winter landscape with the Flight into Egypt

A winter landscape with the Flight into Egypt

Jacob Grimmer (Flemish, 1525-1590)
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Jacob Grimmer was a Flemish landscape painter and draughtsman. His rural scenes and landscapes of views around Antwerp marked an important development in 16th century Flemish landscape painting away from the world landscape with its fantastic panoramas and whimsically-shaped gigantic rocks towards greater simplicity and authenticity. His work influenced the next generation of Flemish landscape painters. Grimmer was a capable colorist who was able to create harmonic landscapes by using realistic colours and atmospheric values effectively.

Jacob Grimmer was born in Antwerp as the son of the small merchant Nicolaas and Elisabeth Cops. According to the early Flemish biographer Karel van Mander, Grimmer first learned to paint landscapes from Matthys Cock and later from Christian van den Queborn, both of Antwerp. There are no written sources, which confirm these apprenticeships.

The only documentary evidence relating to Grimmer's training is his registration in 1539 under the name Iaques Grimmaer in the liggeren of the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke as a student of Gabriel Bouwens. It is therefore not certain that Grimmer in fact was a pupil of Matthys Cock and Christian van den Queborn. Grimmer became a master in the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke in 1547.

Grimmer married Lucia van de Wouwer in April 1548. Of the four children born out of this marriage Abel became an important landscape and architectural painter. There is some disagreement among art historians as to whether or not Grimmer traveled to Italy as many of his artist contemporaries did. He bought a house in the centre of Antwerp where he set up his studio. He was known for painting after nature in the areas around Antwerp.

As early as 1550 Jacob Grimmer was praised by the famous Italian art historian Vasari as one of the best landscape painters of his time. Karel van Mander described Grimmer as 'such an outstanding landscape painter that in some respects I do not know a better one, so lively and lovely were his skies'. Grimmer's art was appreciated not only by his contemporaries but also by artists of the next century. Both Pieter Lastman and his famous pupil, Rembrandt, owned landscapes by Grimmer. Rembrandt's inventory of 1656 included a winter landscape by Jacob Grimmer.

Jacob Grimmer was an active member of the local chamber of rhetoric Violieren where he was celebrated as a poet and author of comic writings. He died before May 1590 in Antwerp.

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A village kermesse

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Village at the Scheldt (1587)

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Moated Castle and Village

Moated Castle and Village (1526 - 1590)

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An Allegory of Spring

An Allegory of Spring

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The month of January, with the sign of Aquarius

The month of January, with the sign of Aquarius

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Allégorie des Saisons dans un paysage

Allégorie des Saisons dans un paysage

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Landscape with Large Tree

Landscape with Large Tree (1588)

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The Massacre Of The Innocents

The Massacre Of The Innocents

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Townscape With Skaters On A Frozen River

Townscape With Skaters On A Frozen River

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Kiel near Antwerp

Kiel near Antwerp (1579)

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The month of October, with the sign of Scorpio

The month of October, with the sign of Scorpio

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Hunting a wild boar

Hunting a wild boar (c. 1590)

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Château dans un paysage avec un berger

Château dans un paysage avec un berger

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