Albert van Ouwater

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Albert van Ouwater

Albert van Ouwater (c. 1410/1415–1475) was one of the earliest artists of Early Netherlandish painting

Early Netherlandish painting

Early Netherlandish painting is the work of those painting who were active in the Netherlands during the 15th and early 16th century Northern renaissance, especially in the flourishing cities of Bruges and Ghent....
working in the Northern Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east....
, as opposed to Flanders

Flanders

Flanders is a geographical region located in parts of present-day Belgium, France, and the Netherlands. Over the course of history, the geographical territory that was called "Flanders" has varied....
in the South of the region.

He was probably born in Oudewater

Oudewater

Media:Nl-Oudewater.ogg is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of Utrecht ....
, and is mentioned by Karel van Mander (1604) as a reputable painter at the time in which he lived.

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Albert van Ouwater (c. 1410/1415–1475) was one of the earliest artists of Early Netherlandish painting

Early Netherlandish painting

Netherlands

Flanders

Oudewater

Haarlem

, in the past usually 'Harlem' in English, is a city in the Netherlands. It is also the Capital of the province of North Holland, the northern half of Holland, which at one time was one of the most powerful of the seven provinces of the Dutch Republic....
, the Grotekerk or Sint-Bavokerk

Sint-Bavokerk

The Grote Kerk or St.-Bavokerk is the largest church in the Netherlands city of Haarlem. It is dedicated to Saint Bavo.It is built in the Gothic architecture style of architecture and started its life as a Catholic church....
, representing St. Peter and St. Paul, in which the figures are carefully and correctly designed, and richly coloured. Van Mander posits Van Ouwater as the founder of the Haarlem school of painting, making him the first major Dutch (as opposed to Flemish) artist. According to Van Mander, landscape

Landscape art

Landscape art depicts scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests. Sky is almost always included in the view, and weather usually is an element of the composition....
painting was a particular specialty of this Dutch school, although none of Van Ouwater's surviving works exhibit this tendency. Van Ouwater seems to have been a contemporary of Dirk Bouts

Dirk Bouts

Dieric Bouts, also spelled Dirk, Dierick and Dirck was an Early Netherlandish painter.According to Karel van Mander in his Het Schilderboeck of 1604, Bouts was born in Haarlem and was mainly active in Leuven , where he was city painter from 1468....
in mid-15th-century Haarlem, and Geertgen tot Sint Jans

Geertgen tot Sint Jans

Geertgen tot Sint Jans , also known as Gerrit Gerritsz, Geertgen van Haarlem or Gerrit van Haarlem, was an Early Netherlandish painting from the northern Low Countries in the Holy Roman Empire....
may have been his pupil.

Van Mander describes another picture by Van Ouwater of a more extensive composition, the Resurrection of Lazarus
Lazarus

Lazarus is the name of two separate men mentioned in the New Testament. The more famous one is Lazarus of Bethany, the subject of the miracle recounted only in the Gospel of John, in which Jesus raises him from the dead....
. This has been identified as the painting now in the Staatliche Museen in Berlin

Berlin

Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....
. This is the only widely accepted attribution to Van Ouwater, although many scholars also credit him with the small, fragmentary Head of a Donor in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is an art museum located on the eastern edge of Central Park, along what is known as Museum Mile, New York City in New York City, USA....
in New York. Max J. Friedländer also gave him a Virgin and Child (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), but this painting has also been associated with the early works of Dirk Bouts (the Metropolitan Museum now considers it the work of a German painter influenced by the Haarlem school). Less convincingly, Albert Châtelet adds a pair of altar wings with St. John the Baptist and St. Michael (both in the Capilla Real, Granada) to Van Ouwater's œuvre.