Louis Apol Hunter in a winter forest

Louis Apol painter of winter landscapes

Louis Apol was born in The Hague in 1850. Apol specialized in painting landscapes at an early age. In doing so, he followed a typically Dutch tradition that emerged among seventeenth-century landscape painters such as Hendrick Avercamp and Aert van der Neer. Although Louis Apol also painted autumnal and summer landscapes, his main focus was winter landscapes. His big breakthrough came in 1875, wh ...