Roemer Visscher

Roemer Visscher

Roemer Pieterszoon Visscher (1547 - February 19, 1620) was a successful Dutch salesman and writer in the period often called the Dutch Golden Age.

Life

Visscher was born in and lived in Amsterdam and was an important and central figure of the cultural scene there and member of the "rederijkerskamer" "In liefde bloeiende" ("Blossoming in love"). Other members of this scene were the Dutch writers P.C. Hooft, Bredero and Vondel. Vondel called Visschers house "het saligh Roemers huys" ("delightful house of Roemer"), because artists of all kinds visited his house on the "Gelderse Kade" in Amsterdam, varying from painters to poets. Roemer was the father of two daughters Maria Tesselschade Visscher and Anna Visscher.

Works

The humanistic and moralistic content of his works belongs to the period of the Renaissance, although the form was more conservative and characteristic to the "rederijkers". Visscher was a specialist in the epigram, but he also wrote emblemata. The emblemata is a genre in which pictures are accompanied by one or two rhyming sentences. An example of the emblemata is Visschers Sinnepoppen. One emblema is called "Elck wat wils" which is still a common expression in Dutch, meaning "Something for every taste".

Among his works are:
*"T'loff vande mutse, ende van een blaewe scheen" (1612)
*"Brabbeling" (1614)
*"Sinnepoppen" (1614) [http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/joris/sinnepoppen/sinnepoppen.html]

External links

* [http://www.xs4all.nl/~graauw/sinnepoppen/sinnepoppen.html Sinnepoppen] - digital version
* [http://cf.hum.uva.nl/dsp/ljc/visscher/retorica.htm T'lof van rethorica] - digital version (from the work Brabbeling)
* [http://www.kb.nl/100hoogte/hh-im/hh047.html picture of a page from Sinnepoppen]
* [http://www.dbnl.org/auteurs/beeld.php3?id=viss004 Roemer Visscher (1547-1620)] - pictures of Roemer Visscher


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