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Gillis van Coninxloo (24 January 1544 – January 1607) was a Dutch painter of forest landscapes, the most famous member of a large family of artists. He travelled through France, and lived in Germany for several years to avoid religious persecutio n.

He was born at Antwerp and studied under Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Lenaert Kroes and Gillis Mostaert. He practiced his art in France, but in 1587, on account of religious persecution, emigrated to Frankenthal and passed his later life in Amsterdam , where he died in 1607.

Coninxloo ranks as one of the most important Dutch landscape painters of the transition from the sixteenth to the seventeenth century. He exercised a strong influence on Jan Brueghel the Elder, Schoubroeck, Savery, and other Flemish and Dutch lan dscape painters of the transition period. Coninxloo is considered the founder of a new approach to the painting of forests; while earlier forest landscapes had used woods as backdrops for human activity, van Coninxloo made them a subject, submerg ing tiny human figures in elaborate compositions of trees in hugely exaggerated scale.

During his stay at Frankenthal from 1588 to 1595, he influenced several better known Dutch landscape-painters collectively referred to as the Frankenthal School. Karel van Mander wrote about him and his father Jan den Hollander in his Schilder-bo eck. He wrote that his teacher Pieter Coeke van Aelst was his cousin, and that his landscapes were among the best of all Dutch landscape artists.

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Gillis van Coninxloo Gillis van Coninxloo (Antwerpen, 1544 – Amsterdam, 1606) was een Zuid-Nederlands kunstschilder van landschappen. ==Leven== Volgens Carel van Mander was Gillis van Coninxloo in zijn geboortestad een leerling van achtereenvolgens Pieter Coecke van Aelst de Jonge, Lenaert Kroes en Gillis Mostaert, waarna hij in 1570 toetrad tot het Antwerpse Sint-L Gevonden op http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillis_van_Coninxloo