Famous People with Name Dirck

Dirck Helmbreker            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Dirck Helmbreker: was a Dutch Baroque painter and draughtsman who worked primarily in Rome.[1] His paintings belong to the group of artists known as the Bamboccianti, and, like other northern artists working in this style, he specialised in small-scale genre scenes in the manner of Pieter van Laer.

Dirck Hals            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Dirck Hals: was a Dutch painter of festivals and ballroom scenes. He was influenced by his elder brother Frans Hals.

Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert: was a Dutch writer, philosopher, translator, politician and theologian.He was the youngest son of Volckert Coornhert, an Amsterdam cloth merchant. As a child he spent some years in Spain and Portugal. Returning home, he was disinherited by his father's will, for his marriage with Cornelia (Neeltje) Simons, a portionless gentlewoman. He took for a time the post of major-domo to Reginald (Reinoud), count of Brederode. Soon he settled in Haarlem, as engraver on copper, and produced works in collaboration with Maarten van Heemskerck which became highly popular.[1]

Dirck Jansz Pesser            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Dirck Jansz Pesser: was a Dutch brewer from Rotterdam and an important member of that city's active Remonstrant community in the early 17th century.Dirck posed for the famous Dutch artist Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn in 1634. The painting is presently on display at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The piece was acquired by the Frances and Armand Hammer Purchase Fund.

Dirck Gerritszoon Pomp            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Dirck Gerritszoon Pomp: was a Dutch sailor of the 16th-17th century, and the first known Dutchman to visit Japan.He returned to Enkhuizen in April 1590 where he talked abundantly about Japan, and befriended the Dutch merchant Jan Huygen van Linschoten, who apparently relied on some of Pomp's information for his book Itinerario.

Ernst August Dircksen            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Ernst August Dircksen: was a German architect. Ernst Dircksen studied at the Berlin Bauakademie. In 1867, he relocated to Upper Silesia and soon became an expert for building railway bridges and railway lines. In 1882, Dircksen was sent to Cologne to redesign and expand the rai