Berchem

Belgium

Berchem, Belgium has 57 Bunkabop connections with 960 other places across 12 topics, led overwhelmingly by art. The bulk of its art connections trace to Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem, a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter; his father Pieter Claesz was born here and later moved to Haarlem, where Nicolaes built his career. Pupils like Willem Romeyn and imitators like Anthonie van Borssom spread his style across Amsterdam and beyond. History ties include Frédéric de Merode's death in battle near Berchem during the Belgian revolution. The Netherlands, Italy, and Amsterdam show the heaviest connection overlap.