The Netherlands produced countless masterpieces across every painting category, especially in Golden Age. Although we are familiar with towering figures like Rembrandt or Vermeer, the country has so much more to offer to art fans. Here are several notable artists and their masterpieces:
Rembrandt dominated the Dutch Golden Age and is known as the master of light and shadow. He is not only the most famous Dutch painter but he ranks among the greatest the world has ever seen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5E8f64yj1Jk
Van Gogh was a Post-Impressionist artist whose difficult life and posthumous fame are well known worldwide. His work is notable for its rough beauty, emotional honesty, and bold color and together with Pablo Picasso’s, they are among the world’s most expensive paintings ever sold.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk9L1N9bRRE
Although Vermeer is now considered an Old Master, he was ignored in his time. Like many from the Golden Age of Dutch Painting, Vermeer’s fascination was light and the faithful and beautiful reproduction on canvas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM_IzEAv5d4
Mondrian was a painter as well as an art theorist and one of the pioneers in abstract art painting (like Pablo Picasso). He was one of the first to dare to create and sell abstract representations of colour, and will always be remembered in history as a pioneer and “the father” of abstract art.