#Ludolf Backhuysen

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"Ships on a stormy sea, painted over a fragmentary portrait of a young man", attributed to both Isaak Luttichuys (portrait) and Ludolf Backhuysen (seascape), 17th century

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كان لودولف باكهويسن رسام ألماني تدرب في البداية على يد والده ليصبح ناسخاً. في عام ١٦٤٩، إنتقل إلى أمستردام حيث أمّنت له مهاراته الرائعة في الخط العمل كموظف لدى واحد من أكثر تجار المدينة شهرة. في النهاية قادته براعته الإستثنائية في الرسم إلى ممارسة مهنة الرسام، مما أدى إلى نجاح سريع. كان لباكهويسن شغف خاص بإلتقاط تأثير الطقس على سطح البحر، وهو موضوع قدّمه بخبرة ملحوظة. بحلول الجزء الأخير من القرن السابع عشر، أصبح فنان المناظر البحرية الرئيسي في هولندا منتجاً لوحات بحرية للرُعاة الملكيين والأرستقراطيين عبر أوروبا. يمكننا تقدير موهبته اليوم بهذا المشهد البحري الرائع.

نرى ثلاث سفن شحن من نوع لعب دور محوري في تعزيز الازدهار الهولندي أثناء القرن السابع عشر. حاملة علم الجمهورية الهولندية باللون الأحمر والأبيض والأزرق المفعم بالحياة، تمثّل هذه المركبات الثراء الوطني بينما تتمايل بشكل خطير بالقرب من شاطئ صخري. لقد عانت كل سفينة بالفعل من خسارة صاري ويمكن رؤية أدلة على الحطام في الحطام العائم في المياة الرمادية الفولاذية في المقدمة. لكن وسط الكارثة الوشيكة يظهر بصيص من الأمل، إذ تخترق آشعة الشمس الذهبية السحب النذيرة بالشؤم مشيرة للبحارين المُحاصرين أن العاصفة على وشك الإنحسار. يُعد هذا المشهد تذكير مؤثر بعبور الحياة.

Ships in Distress off a Rocky Coast

Ludolf Backhuysen

1667

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Ships in Distress off a Rocky Coast by Ludolf Backhuysen

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I guess if I could figure out wtf is going on in this overpainted painting, I should have an Old Masters booth at TEFAF. Nevertheless, he blogged on. Based on Dickinson's dates and attributions, Luttichuys, the portrait painter, was dead 12-17 years when Backhuysen added his seascape to this 30-40yo panel. Why?

Dickinson describes it as surreal, which, clearly. I wonder if there was a philosophical angle, a reference to the giant on the front of Hobbes' Leviathan?

Anyway, the head and surgical overpainting was only discovered in a recent cleaning; for a couple of centuries, it was just a boring ass little seascape. Can you imagine all the generations who missed out on seeing this?

Ships on a stormy sea, painted over a fragmentary portrait of a young man (c. 1655-60 for the portrait, c. 1685-90 for the seascape), attributed to Isaak Luttichuys and Ludolf Backhuysen. Courtesy of Dickinson.

A less fearsome but equally compelling artifact resembled a 17th-century digital collage—an inadvertent artist collaboration. It began as a portrait of a young man by Isaak Luttichuys (c. 1655–60), later overpainted with a stormy seascape attributed to Ludolf Backhuysen (c. 1685–90). Rather than fully obscuring the figure, the second artist let the young man’s face emerge eerily from the waves. Eventually, the portrait was painted over entirely, and by the 1950s, it was sold as a pure seascape. Only recent cleaning revealed the original face, confirming it was no accidental palimpsest but an intentional, possibly satirical, intervention. “It’s a very strange oddity,” said William Bayliss of Dickinson in London, who can trace its provenance back 150 years.

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Seascape by Ludolf Backhuysen

Oil on canvas, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany

[ltwilliammowett]

A Ship at Sea, by Ludolf Backhuysen (1650–1708)

[famousparadiselight]

How i feel nowaday in the world of Joseph Quinn's fans and anti-fans..

But it seems like there is a clear sky on the right...i have good hope that it will be my indifference one day..the sooner the better...

Artist : Ludolf Backhuysen.

[olicrosse]

In the Darkest Times, Pray

Matthew 8:23-27

During the storm, Jesus' disciples cried out to their Master in desperation: "Lord, save us! We are perishing!" This is a de profundis prayer. It comes from Psalm 130: "Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord. Lord, hear my voice! Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications!" It is the prayer offered at the darkest times of life, when we feel utterly incapable of helping ourselves.

Perhaps you yourself are in this precise situation. Perhaps your life is sinking, or you're recovering from serious injury or emotional pain, or you've just received some devastating news. Perhaps you find yourself caught in a terrible, unrelenting depression. Maybe you've just lost a loved one, and you're awash in a sea of grief.

If that's you, then pray as the disciples did. Awaken someone who can help. Jesus sleeping in the midst of the storm is a very powerful symbol of God's sovereignty over even the darkest and most difficult trials that life throws at us.

Bishop Robert Barron

Art: Backhuysen, Ludolf. Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee

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Christus im Sturm auf dem See Genezareth von Ludolf Backhuysen (1695, Öl auf Leinwand)

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Tombstone for 2, 3 and 6 plz

(Questions from here)

If they could own any one piece of artwork what would it be? 

Ships in Distress off a Rocky Coast, 1667 by Ludolf Backhuysen (mostly because that painting makes me think of him so much ahh i love that painting)

Do they have recurring themes in their nightmares?

Yes. Being alone in a dark place. Typically a cave or in his office late at night. There are some times nightmares of walking through the city alone where all the power is out 

So lots of being alone. Its a nightmare because the mounting dread he feels while sleeping. 

What is one talent that they always surprise people with?

He can play the piano. Literally never shows anyone. But he can. He cannot do really complicated pieces though.

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Top, Ships on a stormy sea, painted over a fragmentary portrait of a young man (c. 1655-60 for the portrait, c. 1685-90 for the seascape), attributed to Isaak Luttichuys and Ludolf Backhuysen. Courtesy of Simon Dickinson. Via. Bottom, screen capture from The Face of Another, directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1966.

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Loss of voice as a situation may be compared to sleep: I lie down in bed, on my left side, with my knees drawn up; I close my eyes and breathe slowly, putting my plans out of my mind. But the power of my will or consciousness stops there. As the faithful, in the Dionysian mysteries, invoke the god by miming scenes from his life, I call up the visitation of sleep by imitating the breathing and posture of the sleeper. The god is actually there when the faithful can no longer distinguish themselves from the part they are playing, when their body and their consciousness cease to bring in, as an obstacle, their particular opacity, and when they are totally fused in the myth. There is a moment when sleep ‘comes’, settling on this imitation of itself which I have been offering to it, and I succeed in becoming what I was trying to be: an unseeing and almost unthinking mass, riveted to a point in space and in the world henceforth only through the anonymous alertness of the senses. (...)

At the very moment when I live in the world, when I am given over to my plans, my occupations, my friends, my memories, I can close my eyes, lie down, listen to the blood pulsating my ears, lose myself in some pleasure or pain, and shut myself up in this anonymous life which subtends my personal one. But precisely because my body can shut itself off from the world, it is also what opens me out upon the world and places me in a situation there. The momentum of existence towards others, towards the future, towards the world can be restored as a river unfreezes.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty, from Phenomenology of Perception, 1945. Translated by Colin Smith.

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Mark 4:35-41

The waves were breaking into the boat...

Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee,

Painted by Ludolf Bakhuizen (1630-1708),

Painted in 1695 (dated on the side of the boat),

Oil on canvas

© Indianapolis Museum of Art

Gospel Reading

With the coming of evening, Jesus said to his disciples, ‘Let us cross over to the other side.’ And leaving the crowd behind they took him, just as he was, in the boat; and there were other boats with him. Then it began to blow a gale and the waves were breaking into the boat so that it was almost swamped. But he was in the stern, his head on the cushion, asleep. They woke him and said to him, ‘Master, do you not care? We are going down!’ And he woke up and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, ‘Quiet now! Be calm!’ And the wind dropped, and all was calm again. Then he said to them, ‘Why are you so frightened? How is it that you have no faith?’ They were filled with awe and said to one another, ‘Who can this be? Even the wind and the sea obey him.’

Reflection on the painting

Ludolf Backhuysen was a German-born Dutch painter, active in Amsterdam. He was the leading seascape painter at the end of the 17th century. In order to paint the seas in great detail, he often went out in a boat to make drawings of the waves up close.  Many of the surviving drawings he made are quite creased, torn and worn because of the weather conditions in which he would have made these whilst being on his boat. This ardent study of the seas shows this intense realism and faithful imitation of nature. We see Jesus just after waking up, his hand still by his face. Saint Peter is holding his arm outstretched, pointing towards the stormy seas. The reflection of the boat in the sea and the moonlight hitting the waves make for a unique spectacle.

Storms are a test. It is during the storms of life that we discover so much about ourselves, about our friends, and about our faith too. And these storms can arise suddenly. Literally one phone call, or one doctor's visit can make us go from peaceful shores to stormy seas. What is beautiful in our Gospel passage today is that we see both the humanity and divinity of Jesus on full display. In his humanity we read how exhausted Jesus is from all the work he had done that day. He was even sleeping through storms. In his divinity we see his omnipotence and power over the seas and winds.

Jesus rebuked his disciples for their lack of faith in God, their lack of trust. Jesus was with them; that should have been enough for them, even as the storm howled. Jesus is with us too as risen Lord, as we battle with our own storms in life. If we keep our focus on him at such times, we will come to share in his own peace and rest.

Article by Father Patrick van der Vorst

[lesser-known-composers]

Georg Christoph Wagenseil : Sinfonia in G minor, Op.8, No.2, WV.418

Performers: L'Orfeo Barockorchester conducted by Michi Gaigg Painting: by Ludolf Backhuysen

I. Vivace - 0:00 II. Andantino - 5:13 III. Allegro Assai - 11:41

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“Ships in Distress off a Rocky Coast” c. 1667 by Ludolf Backhuysen

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Ludolf Backhuysen, Ships in Distress off a Rocky Coast

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Ships in a Stormy Sea, by circle of Ludolf Backhuysen, mid-17th–early 18th century