Kasteel Kernhem

Kernhem Castle is one of the fortresses built by the Counts and Dukes in the late Middle Ages on and near the border of Gelre with Utrecht. During that period, the various counties, duchies and the episcopal founding of Utrecht regularly quarreled over the borders of its own territory. This castle was probably built after the Veluwe fell to Utrecht. At the end of the eighteenth century the castle was demolished and replaced by the current Huis Kernhem. Isaak Ouwater (Amsterdam, 1748 - Amsterdam, 1793) probably drew and painted this subject just before it was to be taken down. Ouwater lived in Amsterdam but often went into the country to draw cities. His work was closely related to that of seventeenth-century painters of cityscapes such as Jan van der Heyden and Gerrit Berckheyde. This work can be seen until September 23, 2018 in Gelderland Grensland, an exhibition in CODA Museum Apeldoorn that brings together landscape painting from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. An excellent opportunity to travel through the province of Gelderland on the basis of masterpieces from four centuries of art history! www.coda-apeldoorn.nl/gg Image: Isaak Ouwater, Kernhem Castle near Ede, 1784, oil on panel, collection Museum Arnhem