Jean Moeselagen

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Johannes Wilhelm Alexander Moeselagen , also Jan or Jean Moeselagen (born May 30, 1827 in Goch , Rhine Province ; † February 16, 1920 in Düsseldorf ), was a genre painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Moeselagen was born as the son of Nijmegen- born businessman Johann Martin August Moeselagen (1797-1827) and Elisabeth Brevidowski (* 1799) in Goch on the Lower Rhine . Moeselagen was friends with the future architect Pierre Cuypers from Roermond as early as his youth . Later, from 1852 to 1907, they were linked by letter correspondence. Together with August Wagener and Henri Pieters, Cuypers and Moeselagen went on forays into the area. In 1845 Moeselagen, Cuypers and Wagener moved to Belgium . In the years 1846/1847 Moeselagen attended the Düsseldorf Art Academy . In 1848 he studied with the Belgian painter Josephus Laurentius Dyckmans in Antwerp . After a short stay in Belgium, he settled permanently in Düsseldorf, where he held several exhibitions from 1872 to 1880. From 1858 to 1884 and from 1910 to 1920 Moeselagen was a member of the artists' association Malkasten .

Works (selection)

Moeselagen gained a reputation as a genre painter. His detailed and poetic scenes were painted glazed.

  • The young artist (The young genius) , 1862, exhibited in the Ghent Salon in 1865
  • Saturday , 1866
  • Hidden place
  • Happy Mother , 1869
  • Westphalian hospitality , 1872
  • Young and old eyes , Düsseldorf 1874
  • Grandmother bakes pancakes , Düsseldorf 1876
  • Mirror-like
  • Excerpt from the procession , Düsseldorf exhibition 1880

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. life data in Johann Wilhelm Alexander Moeselagen , data sheet in the portal gedbas.de , accessed on July 27, 2015
  2. ↑ Stamboom Matenaers: Johann Wilhelm Alexander Moeselagen  ( page no longer available , searching web archives )  Info: The link is automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Data sheet in the genealogieonline.nl portal , accessed on July 27, 2015@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.genealogieonline.nl  
  3. ↑ Cf. Inventory van het persoonsgebonden archief: Cuypers: PJH Cuypers (1827-1921), J.Th. J. Cuypers (1861–1949), PJJM Cuypers (1891–1982) , p. 31 ( PDF  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and remove it then this note. ), accessed on the searchassets.nai.nl portal on July 27, 2015@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / searchassets.nai.nl  
  4. ^ AJC van Leeuwen: Pierre Cuypers, architect (1827–1921) . Verlag Waanders, Zwolle 2007, p. 68
  5. ↑ XXVIe. Exposition Nationale e Triennale de Gand Salon de 1865 . Eugene Vanderhaeghen Publishing House, Gent 1865, p. 52, No. 399 ( Google Books )
  6. ^ Kunsthaus Lempertz (ed.): Paintings by older and modern masters: estate of Frau Baurat Bouressi, Cologne, and other possessions. Auctioned on October 25 and 26, 1921 . Catalog No. 200, Cologne 1921, p. 6 ( digitized version )
personal data
SURNAME Moeselagen, Jean
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moeselagen, Johannes Wilhelm Alexander; Moeselagen, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Genre painter of the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1827
PLACE OF BIRTH Goch , Rhine Province
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1920
Place of death Dusseldorf