Leonaert Bramer (1596 - 1674)

Bramer may have been apprenticed to Adriaen van de Vene or Abraham Bloemaert. In 1615 he was in Rome, 1616 in Aix-en-Provence and from 1620 frequently in Rome, where he was one of the founders of the "Bentveughels". Within this group of Dutch artists working in Rome between 1620 and 1720 in Rome, he had the nickname "Nestelghat" (Fidget). After being involved in a knife fight, he returned to Delft, where in 1629 he joined the Guild of St Luke, of which he was several times president during the 1650s and ’60s. Besides small-scale panel paintings, he made murals, shooting targets, placards, large canvases and copious series of drawings for collectors – but few have been preserved.

Author: Ducke Astrid

Literature: Ducke Astrid, Habersatter Thomas (Hrsg./Edi.): von | from 0 auf | to 100. Residenzgalerie Salzburg 1923-2023. Salzburg 2023, S./p. 114