Johan Moreelse

Heraclitus (Herakleitos) by Johan Moreelse around 1630

Johan Pauwelszon Moreelse , also Johannes Paulus Moreelse , (* 1603 (?) In Utrecht ; † 1634 in Utrecht) was a Dutch baroque painter from the Caravaggio School and the Dutch Golden Age . His father was the then famous portrait painter Paulus Moreelse. Little is known about his life. Joh. Moreelse studied in his home town of Utrecht in his father's studio and later in Rome (1627), where he joined a papal knightly order. One of the few exact dates in his life was the signing of a document in favor of the Utrecht nobleman and lawyer Johan Honorius Van Axel de Seny on February 27, 1627. His relatively small works have only been assigned to him and honored since the 1970s. Moreelse died in his hometown during a plague epidemic .

Works

• Democritus
• Democritus, the laughing philosopher (nl. Democritus, de lachende wijsgerige )
• Heraclitus
• Esau gives Jacob his birthright
• San Piedro
• Penitent Maria Magdalena (from the left Boete doende Maria Magdalena )

literature

• Benedict Nicolson, Burlington Magazine, Vol. 116, No. 859, Special Issue Devoted to Caravaggio and the Caravaggesques , pp. 618-620 (10/1974).
• B. Nicolson, Caravaggism in Europe , Oxford (1979), 2nd ed., Dl. I, pp. 150-151
• A. Blankert [ea], catalogus van tentoonstelling (cat. Tent.) Nieuw Licht op de Gouden Eeuw (New Light on the Golden Age), Utrecht (Centraal Museum), Braunschweig, Herzog-Anton-Ulrich-Museum (1987), pp. 317-322
• JA Spicer [ea], cat. tent. Masters of Light. Dutch painters in Utrecht during the Golden Age , Baltimore (The Walkers Art Gallery), San Francisco (Fine Arts Museum), London (The National Gallery) (1997–1998), pp. 385-386