Jacob van Ruisdael. Die Revolution der Landschaft

Jacob van Ruisdael (born and died in Haarlem: 1628/29 8211; 1682) was one of the greatest landscape painters of the Dutch Golden Age. Renowned for his cloudy skies and his trees racked by wind and weather, he was unparalleled at portraying the awe-inspiring magnificence of nature in his paintings. Jacob van Ruisdael. Die revolution der Landschaft assembles thirty-five of his landscapes in one book. They show how Ruisdael broke from existing traditions in Haarlem between 1646 and 1655 to break new ground with his own dramatic, majestic concept. Also included in this publication are examples of work from his predecessors and his contemporaries such as Salomon and Isaack van Ruysdael, Pieter de Molijn, Jan van Goyen, Cornelis Vroom, Allart van Everdingen, Jan van Kessel, Meindert Hobbema and Philips de Koninck 8211; a total of more than fifty paintings. This interesting publication indicates as never before that the art of landscape painting was never the same after Ruisdael.