Jan Siewertz Kolm (1589-1637)

• Was a Dutch painter, and poet.
• Kolm began his artistic training at 13.
• In 1613 he married Anna Seroyen who along with their child died the same year.
• By 1616 a happier union ensued with Fijtge Lindemans.
• Kolm executed scenes of ruins, historical works, landscapes, portraits, still lifes, as well as illustrations.

• In 1618 after the birth of their son Hans, the family moved to Alkmaar.

• A second son Siewert was born in 1619.

• Not long after they returned to the Zuiderkerk area in Amsterdam.
• By 1628 Kolm had stopped painting altogether for the far more lucrative position of “coopmansboode” (merchant’s agent) in Antwerp.

• In 1631 Fijtge died and shortly thereafter Kolm married Jannetje Davidts.

• Upon his death in 1637, Kolm died a prosperous man.

• His literary achievements were poems for weddings and songs to be sung at special gatherings for amusement.

• In the manuscript Ghedenck Boeck is 77 drawings of Kolm and his family among other subjects. 

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