Pieter de Molijn (1595 - 1661)

Molijn’s parents, who came from Ghent and Brussels, had emigrated to London for religious reasons; they married there in 1594, and Pieter was born the following year. The family appears to have been back in Holland by 1609. Molijn presumably served his apprenticeship in Haarlem, where he became a member of the Guild of St Luke in 1616. In 1618 he travelled to Italy, and was back in Haarlem in 1621. Initially working as a genre painter, from 1625 he specialised in landscapes, and between 1625 and 1630, together with Jan van Goyen and Salomon van Ruysdael, he played an important role in the emergence of Dutch realist landscape painting, until the other two surpassed him.

Author: Ducke Astrid

Literature: Ducke Astrid, Habersatter Thomas (Hrsg./Edi.): von | from 0 auf | to 100. Residenzgalerie Salzburg 1923-2023. Salzburg 2023, S./p. 174