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Johann Heinrich Roos (1631 -1685) was a German landscape painter and printmaker of the Baroque period.
His family had moved to Amsterdam due to the Thirty Years' War in 1640. He trained with Guilliam du Gardijn, Cornelis de Bie and Barent Graat, but the influential landscape painters Nicolaes Berchem and Karel Dujardin exerted greater influence on him influence. Read the full biography

Johann Heinrich Roos (1631 -1685) was a German landscape painter and printmaker of the Baroque period.
His family had moved to Amsterdam due to the Thirty Years' War in 1640. He trained with Guilliam du Gardijn, Cornelis de Bie and Barent Graat, but the influential landscape painters Nicolaes Berchem and Karel Dujardin exerted greater influence on him influence. In 1653 the Roos family returned to Germany, where Johann and his brother Theodor Roos collaborated on a work commissioned for a convent in Mainz.
Between 1654 and 1659, Johann painted a portrait of a prince (1654, Heidelberg, Kurpfälzisches Museum) and religious scenes. In 1664 he was invited to paint at the court of Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine. Due to unsatisfactory working conditions, he moved with his family to Frankfurt in 1667 and was very successful there, but lost everything in a fire in 1685. His five sons became talented painters in their turn.