Adam Elsheimer is an artist who inspired the great Rembrandt and amazed modern astronomers.

The artist, whose name is consonant with the name of the famous German psychiatrist, was born several centuries earlier and gained, it would seem, much less popularity. But among the painters, Elsheimer appeared earlier and is now a very noticeable figure thanks to his distinctive manner, combining all the best from different art schools.

The beginning of creativity
Adam Elsheimer was born in 1578 in Frankfurt am Main, he was the eldest of ten children in a tailor’s family. The house in which the future artist grew up was located not far from the Dominican monastery church, where the so-called “Geller’s Altar” was painted by Albrecht Dürer by order of the merchant Jacob Geller. Continue reading →