# NYPOORT, Justus van den

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## Artist

- Lifespan: 1625–?
- Profession: graphic artist
- School: Dutch

## Biography

Dutch painter and engraver. He was a pupil of Pieter van Portengen \(active 1624-1643\) in 1639. He was the dean of St Marie. In 1672 he went to Slavonia with Jan van Bunnick and Andr. de Wit, and then went to Austria. He worked for a long time in Prague and in Olmütz. Around 1683 he worked in the Jesuit printing house in Nagyszombat \(Trnava, Slovakia\). In 1686 a geometry textbook by Burckhard von Birkenstein, colonel of military engineers in Gyõr Castle, was published with over a hundred engravings by van den Nypoort.

## Related artworks

- [The Castle of Éleskõ](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/nypoort-justus-van-den-r659f8435af8a32/the-castle-of-lesk-r1353c5966368b2>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)