Jacob Grimmer. 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.
Landscape with figures 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 a
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.
Landscape with figures 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 a
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