Jan van der Heyden

Japanese: ファン･デル･ヘイデン（英語表記）Jan van der Heyden

1637‐1712
Dutch streetscape and architectural painter. Born in Gorkum, he moved to Amsterdam at a young age and learned painting from a glass painter. As the first painter to specialize in "streetscapes," he painted the landscapes of Amsterdam and other cities in the Netherlands and northwest Germany, as well as fictional, fantastical cities. His works are so detailed that contemporaries described them as "so detailed that you can see the plaster between the bricks of the buildings," and he excels in depicting the subtleties of light and shade. However, he is not always faithful to the real landscapes, and while his works are based on real motifs, he often synthesizes or alters them.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1637‐1712
オランダの街景，建築画家。ホルクムに生まれ，幼少のうちにアムステルダムに移住してガラス絵師から画業を学ぶ。〈街景画〉の最初の専門画家として，アムステルダムをはじめとするオランダ，北西ドイツ各都市や架空の幻想的都市の景観を描く。同時代人から〈建築の煉瓦の間のしっくいが見えるほどだ〉と評されるほど精緻で，光の微妙な明暗の描写にも優れるが，必ずしもつねに実景に忠実なわけではなく現実のモティーフに基づきつつもしばしば合成や改変がなされている。

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