Ernst Wilhelm Moes

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Ernst Wilhelm Moes (born on September 5, 1864 in Amsterdam ; died on October 30, 1912 there ) was a Dutch art historian .

Live and act

His parents were originally from Germany. His father was August Leopold Moes, his mother Maria Mathilde Catharina Gertrude (née Breitenstein). He was the youngest of nine children, some of whom died early from illness. Moes attended a grammar school in Amsterdam from 1876 to 1881, and it was here that his affinity for old books was already evident. He then studied law at the city ​​university from 1884 to 1886, first for a year, then history with Theodorus Jorissen . Without having finished his studies, he started working for the Frederik Muller auction house in Amsterdam in 1885. He maintained good relations with the Rotterdam Archives, where he worked as the second archivist from 1886, so that he was later awarded honorary membership of the “Rotterdamschen Kunstkring”. Since 1888 he was a member of the Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde ( Society of Dutch Literature ) in Leiden.

In 1890 he became a sub-librarian in the Amsterdam University Library, which he remained until 1898.

His works include numerous portraits, biographies and reports on Dutch painting or sculptures from earlier centuries. From 1893 to 1904 Moes was secretary of the Rembrandt Society and then remained on its board. He was also editor of the magazine Oud Holland from 1893 to 1912 and was a member of the Teylers Foundation .

On September 10, 1900, he married Cornelia Rembrandina Valeton, with whom he had four children (three sons and a daughter).

In 1898 he became deputy director of the Kupferstichkabinett at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, from 1903 to 1912 he was its director.

At the beginning of 1912 he sought medical treatment due to persistent hoarseness. As it turned out, he suffered from tuberculosis , so that he was prescribed a stay at a sanatorium in the Black Forest. He returned to Amsterdam in late summer of the year. On the day of his death, he showed up at his office full of new plans, then collapsed and passed away on the way home.

Publications (selection)

He has written numerous articles on biographical lexicons, journals, monographs and obituaries for deceased colleagues.

  • Article in Oud-Holland. Vol. 3-31, 1885-1913 ISSN  1875-0176 .
  • from 1888 Roevers Amsterdamsch Jaarboekje.
  • Iconographia Batava. Talking earth lijst van geschilderde en gebeeldhouwde portretten van Noord-Nederlanders in previous eeuwen. 2 volumes, Amsterdam 1892–1905 ( archive.org ).
  • with Combertus Pieter Burger: De Amsterdamsche boekdrukkers en uitgevers in de zestiende eeuw. 4 volumes, CL van Langenhuysen, Amsterdam / Nijhof, 's-Gravenhage 1896–1915 (reprinted by HES, Utrecht 1988, ISBN 90-6194-466-X ).
  • Frans Hals, sa vie et son œuvre . G. van Oest & cie, Brussels 1909 ( archive.org ).
  • with Eduard van Biema: De Nationale Konste-Gallery en het Koninklijk Museum. Bijdrage tot de divorceis van het Rijksmuseum en Eduard van Biema . F. Muller, Amsterdam 1909 ( archive.org ).
  • Article in: General Lexicon of Visual Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Vol. 1-8, 1907-1911.
  • with Wilhelm Martin : Old Dutch painting. Paintings by Dutch and Flemish masters in town halls, smaller museums, churches, monasteries, orphanages, senate rooms, etc., and in private ownership. Klinkhardt & Biermann, Leipzig 1, 1911/12 - 2, 1913/15.

As editor:

  • Hand drawings of the Dutch and Flemish schools in the Royal Kupferstichkabinett in Amsterdam. tape 1 . Nijhoff, The Hague 1904 ( archive.org ).
  • Hand drawings of the Dutch and Flemish schools in the Royal Kupferstichkabinett in Amsterdam. tape 2 . Nijhoff, The Hague 1907.

literature

  • Abraham Bredius : In memoriam Ernst Wilhelm Moes . In: Oud Holland . tape 31 , issue 1, 1913, ISSN  0030-672X , p. 1-3 , doi : 10.1163 / 187501713X00016 .
  • Jan Six : Levens report van Ernst Wilhelm Moes. In: Levens reports of the afgestorven medeleden van de Maatschappij der Nederlandsche Letterkunde te Leiden 1913–1914. EJ Brill, Leiden 1914, pp. 1-17 ( dbnl.org digitized version ).
  • REO Ekkart: Moes, Ernst Wilhelm (1864–1912). In: Biographical Woordenboek van Nederland. Volume 2. The Hague 1985, pp. 394-395 ( resources.huygens.knaw.nl ).

Web links

Commons : Ernst Wilhelm Moes  - Collection of texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Jan Six: Levensbericht van Ernst Wilhelm Moes . In: Levens reports of the afgestorven medeleden van de Maatschappij der Nederlandsche Letterkunde te Leiden 1913–1914 . EJ Brill, Leiden 1914 (Dutch, dbnl.org ).
  2. ↑ JG Frederiks, F. Jos. van den Branden: Moes (Ernst Wilhelm) . In: Biographisch woordenboek der Noord- en Zuidnederlandsche letterkunde . LJ Veen, Amsterdam 1888 (Dutch, dbnl.org ).
personal data
SURNAME Moes, Ernst Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch art historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 1912
Place of death Amsterdam