Joos de Momper

Joos de Momper the Younger, engraving by Anthony van Dyck

Landscape with a wide view, 1st third of the 17th century

Mountain Landscape (1601)

Joos de Momper (* 1564 in Antwerp ; † February 5, 1635 there ) was a Flemish painter. His father, grandfather and great-grandfather were painters, collected pictures, bought, sold and published prints from all over the world.

Act

Momper is known as a master of landscape painting . His pre-romantic mountain and lake landscapes are in the Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum in Braunschweig , in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich , in the Hamburger Kunsthalle , in the Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig , in the Old Collection of the Saarland Museum , in the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna and to visit in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden . In his landscapes, De Momper elevated the old aid of landscape painting (red-brown foreground, yellow-green centerpiece, gray-blue distance), which was already ridiculed at the time, to a sovereign style, to a "means of expression" for his monumentality. This Flemish color corresponds to the passage of sunlight through the atmosphere. The perception of light by the human eye is determined by the scattering of solar radiation in the visible range on molecules and particles in the atmosphere. Especially in light-flooded landscapes, the warm colors in the foreground and the cold colors in the background predominate due to the Rayleigh scattering. Joos de Momper is one of the most important Flemish landscape painters because his landscapes show the transition from the world landscape of the Mannerists to the naturalistic Dutch landscape painting of the 17th century .

A deed of payment from 1595 shows that de Momper also supplied designs for tapestries .

literature

• Wilhelm Adolf Schmidt:  Momper, Joos de . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, p. 159 f.
• Hans-Gösta Törnell: Momper, Josse de (2) . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931, p. 52-53 .
• R. Beroleit-Breustedt, Kindler's Malereilexikon, dtv 1982

Web links

Commons : Joos de Momper (II)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Joos de Momper in the catalog of the German National Library
• Sky, clouds and atmospheric optics by J. de Momper
• The four Seasons. A cycle of pictures by Joos de Momper in the Braunschweig Gemäldegalerie . A joint project of the Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum Braunschweig and the Free University of Berlin 1997.