Maurits Kortenbout

Maurits Kortenbout (1985, Brielle) is a visual artist from Rotterdam specialising in contemporary photographic still lifes. In 2026 he completed the professional programme in Photography at the Nederlandse Academie voor Beeldcreatie.

Through photography, Kortenbout creates carefully constructed images that move between photography and painting. His still lifes are made up of separately photographed elements, which he brings together layer by layer into a new, credible reality. Light, composition, colour and detail play a decisive role in them.

Inspired by the Dutch Masters, he is developing a contemporary visual language centred on flowers, plants and insects. His work is marked by stillness, rich detail and careful command of the image.

In his six-part series Alpha, he combines floral compositions with Delft Blue vases and natural elements. He is also artist in residence at the Botanische Tuin Kralingen, where he is working on Phases in Vases, a project exploring the changing of the seasons, beauty and transience.

His work is presented as photographic art in limited, numbered editions.

Keywords: contemporary art, fine art photography, photographic still life, floral still life, botanical art, Dutch Masters, nature, photography.