Life and work
He was a member of the famous Koekkoek family, Koekkoek family of painters; the son of Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek, and brother of the landscape painters, Barend Cornelis Koekkoek, Barend Cornelis, and Marinus Adrianus Koekkoek, Marinus Adrianus. His sons, Hermanus Koekkoek the Younger, Hermanus (the Younger), Willem Koekkoek, Willem, Johannes Hermanus Barend Koekkoek, Johannes Hermanus Barend, and , all became painters. He also had three daughters.Guido de Werd: "Die Malerfamilie Koekkoek", In: ''Barend Cornelis Koekkoek (1803–1862), seine Familie, seine Schule und das B.C. Koekkoek-Haus in Kleve'', Koekkoek-Haus, 2000, His father specialized in marine art, and gave Hermanus his first art lessons. In 1826, his family moved to Durgerdam, near Amsterdam. Later, he went to Amsterdam, took classes at the Rijksakademie, and established himself as a free-lance artist. Like his father, he focused on marine art, although he also created numerous landscapes. His style was a combination of Realism (art), Realism, and the newer Romanticism, Romantic aesthetic. Influences from the artists of the Dutch Golden Age are clearly visible, as well. He provided his four sons with their first painting lessons, as well as schooling his contemporary, the etcher , in the techniques peculiar to marine painting. His memberships included the , and Arti et Amicitiae, an artists' society in Rotterdam. He won a gold medal at one of their exhibitions in 1875. Many of his works were sold in Germany and England. In 1882 he moved to Haarlem. He died there that same year, aged sixty-seven. His works may be seen at the Teylers Museum, and the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen. The Rijksprentenkabinet of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam has a collection of his drawings.References
Further reading
* Benno Tempel, Ronald de Leeuw: ''Het Romantiek Boek''. Waanders Uitgevers, Zwolle, 2006. * Toni Wappenschmidt: "Marinen und Landschaften der holländischen Romantik". In: ''Die Weltkunst'', Vol.62, 1992External links