Otto Marseus van Schrieck is remembered for work the next generation could not ignore.
The record lists Otto Marseus van Schrieck as painter from the Northern Netherlands (1619–1678).
Otto Marseus van Schrieck was born at Nijmegen in 1613. His recorded nationality is Netherlands.
Patronage, the guild system and a new open art market shaped what could be painted and for whom.
He worked as painter, draftsperson and court painter.
His recorded movement is baroque.
Among his best-known works are Plants and Insects, A forest floor with a snake, lizards, butterflies and other insects and Snakes, toads and butterflies. A painting outlives the argument about it, which is the only durable form of an artistic reputation.
That the work was made in Netherlands shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Otto Marseus van Schrieck died in 1678, aged 65. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Notable work: Plants and Insects
- Notable work: A forest floor with a snake, lizards, butterflies and other insects
- Notable work: Snakes, toads and butterflies
- Movement: Baroque
