Gillis van coninxloo biography of albert einstein
A hundred years later, Flemish artist Gillis van Coninxloo painted the Albert Einstein (), German-born American physicist, “Message on the.
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Biography
Painter, draughtsman and collector, part of a Flemish family of artists whose members of at least six generations were artists, active from the late 15th century to the 17th.
The family was foinded by Jan van Coninxloo I ( fl ). Gillis van Coninxloo (in fact Gillis van Coninxloo III) was the son of Jan van Coninxloo II. Van Mander, a contemporary of Gillis van Coninxloo III, wrote in 'He is, as far as I know, the best landscape painter of his time; his style is now frequently imitated in Holland.' His works works show the transition from Mannerist to early Baroque landscape.
Coninxloo studied under, among others, Pieter Coecke van Aelst, a painter of the Antwerp school of Mannerism.
Gillis van Coninxloo.After a period of travel in France, he returned to Antwerp in and was made a member of the painters' guild. He left his home again in to escape religious persecution and stayed at Frankenthal in the Palatinate until , when he settled in Amsterdam.
InFrankenthal he had a decisive influence