Hermann Moest

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Hermann Julius Alfred Moest (born December 5, 1868 in Karlsruhe , † December 10, 1945 in Berlin ) was a German nude and figure painter .

Life

Moest was born on December 5, 1868 as the son of the sculptor Karl Friedrich Moest (1838–1923) in Karlsruhe. After his father had taught him a lot about his trade, he consolidated his knowledge and skills from 1885 to 1888 at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe . Building on this, he enjoyed further training in the arts and crafts under Otto Seitz (1846–1912) and Alexander von Liezen-Mayer (1839–1898) , which took place from October 20, 1890 to 1894 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . From 1914 he lived and worked in Berlin as a well-known nude and figure painter and illustrator.

Hermann Moest married Emma Priscilla Benfey on October 1, 1904 in Hanover (born August 24, 1876 in Hanover). He died on December 10, 1945 in Berlin.

Moests brothers were the opera singer Rudolf Moest and the actor Friedrich Moest .

Female back nude in front of a fence

Works

Even in Moest's time, painters were fascinated by the depiction of dead female bodies, whose aesthetics, combined with thoughtful contemplation, they greatly appreciated. Likewise, the work created by Moest in 1898, The Lot of the Beautiful, shows a young woman who has just died and the lover who throws herself in mourning over her. The majority of Heinrich Moest's works belong to the genre of nude painting, including:

  • The ring
  • Act in the forest
  • Four acts in a hilly landscape
  • Standing female nude from the back
  • Actor on chair
  • Nude with hands raised in dune ( The boy at the beach of Usedom )
  • Reclining act
  • Standing act in the park
  • Diana with entourage
  • The dance
  • Couple in rosary
  • Nude on the sofa
  • Lying couple
  • Act on a body of water
  • Male nude on stone
  • The servant
  • Monochrome nude
  • Upper Bavarian landscape
  • Leda with the swan
  • Young couple in clearing
  • The hug
  • Nude with bow
  • Girl by the water
  • Dancing female nude in the forest

literature

Web links

Commons : Hermann Moest  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Emma Priscilla Benfey , Pedigree Resource File, FamilySearch.org, accessed February 17, 2013
  2. a b Bram Dijkstra: Idols of perversity. Oxford, New York 1986. ISBN 0-19-503779-0
  3. ^ Franz Hanfstaengl (ed.): The art of our time; a chronicle of modern art life , Munich 1898, p.61 (with illustration of the work), accessed on March 1, 2010