Jan Joest

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The high altar in St. Nicolai
Image of a Man (around 1505)

Jan Joest from Kalkar , also known as Jan Joest van Kalkar , (* around 1460 , † around 1519 ) was a Lower Rhine-Dutch painter from Kalkar on the Lower Rhine, who was known for his sacred paintings .

life and work

Joest was the nephew of the Wesel painter Derick Baegert . The son of Derick's sister Katharina first learned and worked in his uncle's workshop. Jan Joest's greatest work - Scenes from the Life of Jesus Christ - was created between 1505 and 1508 on the high altar of St. Nicolai's Church in Kalkar. From the documents found there, Canon Wolff concluded that Joest worked for the Hackeney family in Cologne in 1518 , before he left the Lower Rhine, most likely for Italy , more precisely Genoa and Naples .

Afterwards, Joest returned to the Netherlands and settled in Haarlem , where he made a painting of St. Willibrord for St. Bavo's Church . The most recent edition of Van der Willingen's work on Haarlem painters mentions the funeral of an artist named “Jan Joosten” in 1519.

Other works attributed to Joest can be found in Wesel and Rees , but the "Death of the Virgin" in Munich is also considered a painting by Joest.

Joest has been compared to Gerard David and Hans Memling , but most likely belongs to Scorel's school . A special feature of Joest's work is the exquisite clarity of his colors and the fine design of the faces.

Scientific discovery

Until Canon Wolff and Dr. Eisenmann introduced his person to science in 1874, he was almost unknown.

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personal data
SURNAME Joest, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch painter
DATE OF BIRTH around 1460
DATE OF DEATH around 1519