Where can you see Hendrick Avercamp in Amsterdam?

At the Rijksmuseum: Winter Landscape with Ice Skaters. Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.

What is Hendrick Avercamp's most famous work in Amsterdam?

Winter Landscape with Ice Skaters, of about 1608, at the Rijksmuseum. A frozen river crowded with people skating, sledging and falling, with a town on the bank, every figure a small story.

When and where was Hendrick Avercamp born?

Baptised 27 January 1585, at Amsterdam, Dutch Republic. Hendrick Avercamp died buried 15 May 1634, at Kampen, Dutch Republic, aged about 49.

What is Hendrick Avercamp known for?

Specialised in scenes of the Netherlands in winter. Was mute, and known as the Mute of Kampen. His Winter Landscape with Ice Skaters is in the Rijksmuseum. Hendrick Avercamp was a Dutch painter, of the Dutch Golden Age.

Painter, 1585 to 1634

Hendrick Avercamp

Avercamp painted the Netherlands on ice. His winter landscapes are full of people, rich and poor, skating, sledging, fishing through holes and taking tumbles, and they are among the best-loved pictures in the Rijksmuseum.

Born: 1585, Amsterdam, Dutch Republic
Died: 1634, Kampen, Dutch Republic
Movement: Dutch Golden Age
In Amsterdam: 1 work in 1 museum

Where to see Hendrick Avercamp in Amsterdam

Each work with the museum it hangs in. Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.

Rijksmuseum1 work

Winter Landscape with Ice Skaters
about 1608
A frozen river crowded with people skating, sledging and falling, with a town on the bank, every figure a small story.

The life of Hendrick Avercamp

Avercamp was born in Amsterdam and grew up in Kampen, on the IJssel. He was mute, and was known as the Mute of Kampen.

He was one of the first Dutch painters to make landscape his subject, and he specialised in winter, the years of hard frosts at the start of the seventeenth century. He also sold drawings, tinted in watercolour, for collectors' albums.

What to know

Specialised in scenes of the Netherlands in winter
Was mute, and known as the Mute of Kampen
His Winter Landscape with Ice Skaters is in the Rijksmuseum

Born: Baptised 27 January 1585, Amsterdam, Dutch Republic
Died: Buried 15 May 1634, Kampen, Dutch Republic

Hendrick Avercamp: common questions

Where can you see Hendrick Avercamp in Amsterdam?: At the Rijksmuseum: Winter Landscape with Ice Skaters. Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.
What is Hendrick Avercamp's most famous work in Amsterdam?: Winter Landscape with Ice Skaters, of about 1608, at the Rijksmuseum. A frozen river crowded with people skating, sledging and falling, with a town on the bank, every figure a small story.
When and where was Hendrick Avercamp born?: Baptised 27 January 1585, at Amsterdam, Dutch Republic. Hendrick Avercamp died buried 15 May 1634, at Kampen, Dutch Republic, aged about 49.
What is Hendrick Avercamp known for?: Specialised in scenes of the Netherlands in winter. Was mute, and known as the Mute of Kampen. His Winter Landscape with Ice Skaters is in the Rijksmuseum. Hendrick Avercamp was a Dutch painter, of the Dutch Golden Age.