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Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews
The singular achievement of Ludolf Backhuysen as the Dutch Golden Age’s master of the monumental tempest first received its full due with a monographic exhibition in Emden and Amsterdam, his native and adoptive cities, in 1985. Backhuysen’s scholarly recognition was subsequently crowned with the publication of a handsome monograph by Gerlinde de Beer in 2002, based on the author’s dissertation at the Christian- Albrechts-Universität in Kiel in 1993. The Ostfriesisches Landesmuseum recently marked the 300th anniversary of the artist’s death with another monographic exhibition. Although separated by 25 years, this project explicitly seeks to avoid duplicating that effort. Instead it takes a strikingly specific tack, in addressing the social and professional context of Backhuysen’s career as an artist. This angle provided an opportunity to present rare and less-accessible objects that bring the artist to life as a person. It follows the lead of the objects from the museum’s own collection, which make up about half of the exhibition, the rest lent from three major institutions in Amsterdam.
Modest in size, this exhibition presents 45 works under 34 catalogue numbers. Sixteen paintings and two “pen paintings” join fourteen drawings, one page of calligraphy, and a dozen prints, 11 of them from the celebrated series D’Y Stroom en Zeegezichten. Of the paintings, just two serve to represent the large-scale stormy seascapes on which rest Backhuyzen’s fame. Several others present facets of the artist’s biography, the most intriguing example that of a view of the Mosselsteiger on the Y, which possibly includes a combined Backhuyzen and De Hooghe family portrait; it is here presented together with the pen-and-wash study for it. Social history and political context color many of the other selections as well, including The Y Seen from the Mosselsteiger or the Bothuisjes, as well as a large tableau showing Admiral Mich
Ludolf Bakhuizen
Dutch painter
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Ludolf Bakhuizen (28 December 1630 or 1632 – 7 November 1708) was a German-born Dutch painter, draughtsman, calligrapher and printmaker. He was the leading Dutch painter of maritime subjects after Willem van de Velde the Elder and Younger left for England in 1672. He also painted portraits of his family and circle of friends.
Life
He was born in Emden, East Frisia, and came to Amsterdam around 1650, working as a merchant's clerk at Herengracht. He discovered so strong a genius for painting that he relinquished the business and devoted himself to art from the late 1650s, initially in pen drawings and calligraphy. He studied first under Allart van Everdingen and then under Hendrik Dubbels, two eminent masters of the time, and soon became celebrated for his sea-pieces, which often had rough seas. In 1663 he became a member of the painters guild. He was influenced by Willem van de Velde the Elder. Bakhuizen assisted Bartholomeus van der Helst in 1668.
He was an ardent student of nature, and frequently exposed himself on the sea in an open boat in order to study the effects of storms. His compositions, which are numerous, are nearly all variations of one subject, the sea, and in a style peculiarly his own, marked by intense realism or faithful imitation of nature. He moved frequently as he married four times and lived at Haarlemmerstraat, Nes, N.Z. Voorburgwal, Rozengracht, Singel across the Doelen, and at Herengracht 193 (between Oude Leliestraat and Driekoningenstraat) which was sold in 1749.
In his later years Bakhuizen employed his skills in etching; he also painted a few examples each of several other genres of painting, such as portraits, landscapes and genre paintings. Bakhuizen painted portraits of his large circle of friends. These are of lesser artistic valu
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