Hendrik van Steenwijk I explained

Hendrik van Steenwijck I (also Steenwyck, Steenwijk) (c. 1550 – buried 1 September 1603^[1]) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, from early in the period, known mainly for his church interiors.

Van Steenwijck was born in Kampen, and was a student of the architectural painter Hans Vredeman de Vries, and the father of Hendrik van Steenwijk II^[2] He is known to have worked in Aachen (1573–76), Antwerp (1577–85) and Frankfurt (from 1586 on), where he died.^[1]

Van Steenwijck is the earliest-known painter of architectural interiors, a genre that was popular in Dutch Golden Age and Flemish Baroque painting.^[3] In addition to introducing the new genre, he also worked with more natural lighting and perspectival space than found in the works of his teacher Vredeman de Vries.

Further reading

• Book: Liedtke, Walter A. . Flemish paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art . New York . The Metropolitan Museum of Art . 1984 . 0-87099-356-9 . registration . (see index, v.1).

External links

• Vermeer and The Delft School, a full text exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which contains material on Hendrik van Steenwijk I

Notes and References

1. https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/74869 Hendrik van Steenwijck I
2. Frans Baudouin, "Hendrick van Steenwijk (i)," Grove Art Online, Oxford University Press, [accessed November 26, 2007].
3. Book: Seymour Slive . 1995 . Dutch Painting 1600-1800 . Pelican history of art . New Haven . Yale University Press . 262–276. 0-300-06418-7.