Dieric Bouts (born ca. 1415 – 6 May 1475) was an Early Netherlandish painter. According to Karel van Mander in his Het Schilderboeck of 1604, Bouts was born in Haarlem and was mainly active in Leuven (Louvain), where he was city painter from 1468. Van Mander confused the issue by writing biographies of both "Dieric of Haarlem" and "Dieric of Leuven," although he was referring to the same artist. The similarity of their last names also led to the confusion of Bouts with Hubrecht Stuerbout, a prominent sculptor in Leuven. Very little is actually known about Bouts' early life, but he was greatly influenced by Jan van Eyck and by Rogier van der Weyden, under whom he may have studied. He is first documented in Leuven in 1457 and worked there until his death in 1475.Bouts was among the first northern painters to demonstrate the use of a single vanishing point (as illustrated in his Last Supper). His work has a certain primitive stiffness of drawing, and his figures are often disproportionately long and angular, but his pictures are highly expressive, well designed and rich in colour, with especially good landscape backgrounds.
Flemish painter. His "Triptych of the Virgin" (1455), "Martyrdom of St. Erasmus" (1458), "Altarpiece of the Holy Sacrament" (1464-1467), and "The Justice of Emperor Otto III" diptych (1460), "Portrait of a Man" (1462), and "Resurrection" (1455) are considered masterpieces. "Resurrection" part of the Norton Simon Museum collection.
Art Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
Sister Wendy at the Norton Simon Museum
2002
TV Movie art work
Met Dieric Bouts
1975
Documentary short art work
Known for movies
Met Dieric Bouts 1975 as Art Department
Sister Wendy at the Norton Simon Museum 2002 as Art Department
$700,000