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Man challenges nature: Mighty ships, built from wooden planks and equipped with masts and sails, venture out into the open sea. They trade, wage war, discover the world. Art collectors in the Golden Age of the Netherlands in the 17th and early 18th centuries loved paintings showing the ships of their proud fleet fighting the forces of nature. Particularly dramatic seascapes were popular: a churning sea, clouds looming threateningly on the horizon, and in between, like nutshells, the extremely sloping sailing ships threatening to capsize. Is there hope, will the sailors be able to save their ship and their valuable cargo? Will they survive? A small rag of blue sky gives hope, but the cliffs are already threateningly close...
A master of marine painting was Ludolf Backhuysen, who was born in Emden. In 1650 he went to Amsterdam, the heart of the up-and-coming trading and naval power Holland. Painting was not in his cradle, first he worked in a trading house, but there he attracted attention with his beautiful writing. Apparently he taught himself to paint at an early age and loved the sea, the ships and the harbours of his new home. So he was apprenticed by two respected marine painters. Willem van de Velde the Elder, the most famous artist of the stormy seas and naval battles to this day, also influenced the work of the young Backhuysen. To his advantage, the van de Veldes soon moved to England and left a gap in the Netherlands. Backhuysen filled this gap in a brilliant way and soon made a name for himself with his lively, detailed naval paintings. After a few years he was the most important and popular artist in his profession. Even after his death - he died in 1708 at the age of about 77 - his works remained in great demand throughout Europe. It was not until the 19th century that interest in his seascapes waned.
Some of his extremely dynamic depictions of the stormy sea seem like journeys to the Hellmouth with a fiery red evening sky. Or is it lightning that flashes through the night? The merchant ships of the Dutch East India Company can be seen in his pictures as well as calm and detailed views of Dutch ports and the battles of the naval powers Holland and England. In addition to paintings, Backhuysen has also created entire series of prints that show the ships and their complicated rigging in finely engraved form. Although he is considered to be a dedicated marine painter, there are other motifs of his: he has created portraits of family members, some landscapes and above all self-portraits. On one of them you can see a sated gentleman with a longhaired wig in fine cloth and thread, looking at us attentively. He probably never went to sea, but Ludolf Backhuysen never let go of his longing for the sea.
Man challenges nature: Mighty ships, built from wooden planks and equipped with masts and sails, venture out into the open sea. They trade, wage war, discover the world. Art collectors in the Golden Age of the Netherlands in the 17th and early 18th centuries loved paintings showing the ships of their proud fleet fighting the forces of nature. Particularly dramatic seascapes were popular: a churning sea, clouds looming threateningly on the horizon, and in between, like nutshells, the extremely sloping sailing ships threatening to capsize. Is there hope, will the sailors be able to save their ship and their valuable cargo? Will they survive? A small rag of blue sky gives hope, but the cliffs are already threateningly close...
A master of marine painting was Ludolf Backhuysen, who was born in Emden. In 1650 he went to Amsterdam, the heart of the up-and-coming trading and naval power Holland. Painting was not in his cradle, first he worked in a trading house, but there he attracted attention with his beautiful writing. Apparently he taught himself to paint at an early age and loved the sea, the ships and the harbours of his new home. So he was apprenticed by two respected marine painters. Willem van de Velde the Elder, the most famous artist of the stormy seas and naval battles to this day, also influenced the work of the young Backhuysen. To his advantage, the van de Veldes soon moved to England and left a gap in the Netherlands. Backhuysen filled this gap in a brilliant way and soon made a name for himself with his lively, detailed naval paintings. After a few years he was the most important and popular artist in his profession. Even after his death - he died in 1708 at the age of about 77 - his works remained in great demand throughout Europe. It was not until the 19th century that interest in his seascapes waned.
Some of his extremely dynamic depictions of the stormy sea seem like journeys to the Hellmouth with a fiery red evening sky. Or is it lightning that flashes through the night? The merchant ships of the Dutch East India Company can be seen in his pictures as well as calm and detailed views of Dutch ports and the battles of the naval powers Holland and England. In addition to paintings, Backhuysen has also created entire series of prints that show the ships and their complicated rigging in finely engraved form. Although he is considered to be a dedicated marine painter, there are other motifs of his: he has created portraits of family members, some landscapes and above all self-portraits. On one of them you can see a sated gentleman with a longhaired wig in fine cloth and thread, looking at us attentively. He probably never went to sea, but Ludolf Backhuysen never let go of his longing for the sea.
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.jpg "Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee by Ludolf Backhuysen")
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.jpg "The Eendracht and a Fleet of Dutch Men-of-war, c.1670-75 by Ludolf Backhuysen")
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.jpg "Sailing Ships on Rough Sea by Ludolf Backhuysen")
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.jpg "The Dutch Fleet of the India Company by Ludolf Backhuysen")
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.jpg "Ships in Distress During Heavy Storm by Ludolf Backhuysen")
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.jpg "The Port of Amsterdam, View of the Ij, 1666 by Ludolf Backhuysen")
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.jpg "The Battle of Terheide, c.1695 by Ludolf Backhuysen")
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.jpg "Dutch Shipping in a Choppy Sea by Ludolf Backhuysen")
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.jpg "The Three-Master")
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.jpg "Stormy Sea, 1690 by Ludolf Backhuysen")
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.jpg "Ships at Sea, 17th Century by Ludolf Backhuysen")
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.jpg "View from Nesserland Island to Emden by Ludolf Backhuysen")
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.jpg "Fishing Vessels Offshore in a Heavy Sea, 1864 by Ludolf Backhuysen")
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.jpg "The Dutch Fleet of the Dutch East India Company by Ludolf Backhuysen")
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.jpg "A Sea Battle between the Dutch and the English by Ludolf Backhuysen")
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.jpg "Ships in a Gale, 1701 by Ludolf Backhuysen")
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.jpg "Ships in Distress off a Rocky Coast by Ludolf Backhuysen")
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.jpg "L. Backhuysen, Rough Sea by Ludolf Backhuysen")
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.jpg "Ships, second half 1600s by Ludolf Backhuysen")
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.jpg "The Handover of Command to Admiral Michiel de Ruyter by Ludolf Backhuysen")
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.jpg "Storm at Sea by Ludolf Backhuysen")
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.jpg "Dutchman Embarking onto a Yacht by Ludolf Backhuysen")
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.jpg "Dutch Warships by Ludolf Backhuysen")
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.jpg "Harbor with Ships by Ludolf Backhuysen")
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.jpg "L. Backhuysen, Ships on a Stormy Sea by Ludolf Backhuysen")
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.jpg "View of Amsterdam with Ships in Foreground, 1701 by Ludolf Backhuysen")
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.jpg "Stormy Sea by Ludolf Backhuysen")
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.jpg "Harbour by Ludolf Backhuysen")
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.jpg "The Ferry in the Storm by Ludolf Backhuysen")
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.jpg "The River IJ and Seascapes, 1701 by Ludolf Backhuysen")
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.jpg "Launching a Ship by Ludolf Backhuysen")
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.jpg "Dutch Warships by Ludolf Backhuysen")
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.jpg "Harbor with Seamen and a Fish Peddler by Ludolf Backhuysen")
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.jpg "A Winter Landscape with Sleighs, Skaters and Golfers on a Frozen Lake by Ludolf Backhuysen")
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.jpg "Storm at Sea, 1701 by Ludolf Backhuysen")
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.jpg "Stormy Sea on Rocky Coast by Ludolf Backhuysen")
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.jpg "Launching a Ship by Ludolf Backhuysen")
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.jpg "Storm at Sea by Ludolf Backhuysen")
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.jpg "A Dutch Flagship with a Yacht Behind It by Ludolf Backhuysen")
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.jpg "A Storm off the Coast with Men o War and Fishing Boats by Ludolf Backhuysen")
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.jpg "Shipping in Choppy Seas by Ludolf Backhuysen")
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.jpg "Ships Under Repair by Ludolf Backhuysen")
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.jpg "Ships Under Full Sail by Ludolf Backhuysen")
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.jpg "Port at Amsterdam by Ludolf Backhuysen")
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.jpg "Fish Vender by Ludolf Backhuysen")
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.jpg "Port at Amsterdam by Ludolf Backhuysen")
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.jpg "The Personification of Amsterdam Riding in Neptune")
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.jpg "The Personification of Amsterdam Riding in Neptune")
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.jpg "Brielle by Ludolf Backhuysen")
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.jpg "Fish Vendor by Ludolf Backhuysen")
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.jpg "Seascape by Ludolf Backhuysen")
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.jpg "The IJ before Amsterdam from the Mosselsteiger or the Bothhuisjes by Ludolf Backhuysen")
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.jpg "Seascape and Fishing Boats by Ludolf Backhuysen")
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.jpg "Ships at Sea by Ludolf Backhuysen")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-684168).jpg "Ships at the Roadstead of Vlissingen (?) by Ludolf Backhuysen")
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.jpg "A View of Vlaardingen with Shipping in the Foreground by Ludolf Backhuysen")
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.jpg "Ships Under Full Sail by Ludolf Backhuysen")
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.jpg "Beach with Fishing Boats by Ludolf Backhuysen")
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.jpg "Marine Scene with Amsterdam in the Distance by Ludolf Backhuysen")
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.jpg "Ships in a Gale by Ludolf Backhuysen")
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.jpg "Marine Scene with Amsterdam in the Distance by Ludolf Backhuysen")
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.jpg "View of Amsterdam with Ships in Foreground by Ludolf Backhuysen")
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.jpg "Ships Under Repair by Ludolf Backhuysen")
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.jpg "The River IJ and Seascapes by Ludolf Backhuysen")
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.jpg "The Storm by Ludolf Backhuysen")
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