Abraham van den Blocke [SEP] date of birth
Abraham van den Blocke
Abraham van den Blocke (1572 – 31 January 1628) was an architect and sculptor.
Life.
Van den Blocke was born in Königsberg (today Kaliningrad), Ducal Prussia, presumably the oldest of seven children of Dorothea and Willem van den Blocke, a Flemish sculptor and architect who had trained with Cornelis Floris in Antwerp. His brothers Isaak, Jacob and David were painters. In 1584 the family lived in Danzig (Gdańsk), where he was trained as a sculptor in his father
Thorn) and Elbing (Elbląg).
His son Abraham van den Blocke was also an architect and sculptor, whereas his sons Jacob van den Blocke, Isaak van den Blocke and David van den Blocke were painters. Van den Blocke died in Danzig in the same year as his sons Abraham and Isaac, likely from an infectious disease.
Work.
Willem van den Brocke is regarded as the main representative in the Baltics of Italianizing Flemish mannerism as developed first by Cornelis Floris. Although he designed many building ornaments,