JACOB GRIMMER

 

JACOB GRIMMER

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SUNDAY Feature on ART of Architecture -by Gautam Shah

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Jacob Grimmer (1526 -1590) was a Flemish landscape painter. He became a master in the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke in 1547. His son Abel Grimmer, became an important landscape and architectural painter. He painted seasonal scenes with appropriate atmospheric effects, substantial architectural buildings and with overtly included human figures (perhaps by the collaborating artists).

Grimmer painted the rural scenes and landscapes of views around Antwerp, influenced the contemporary artist and also artists of the next generation of Flemish landscape painters. Jacob Grimmer, in 1550 was praised by the famous Italian art and architectural historian Vasari, as one of the best landscape painters of the age. Pieter Lastman and his famous pupil, Rembrandt, both owned landscapes painted by Grimmer. He was a contemporary artist of Pieter Bruegel the Elder.

Jacob Grimmer painted with ‘simplicity and authenticity’, which, was rarely achieved before. He left alone the style of artificial landscapes, and achieved a compositional unity while working with real colours. 

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