Josef Mooren
Josef Mooren (* 1885 in Kleve ; † 1987 ibid.) Was a German landscape painter , restorer and church painter .
Life
After school, in 1899, Mooren, the eldest of four children of the country mailman Johann Mooren, began an apprenticeship as a sculptor with Karl Pelzer in Kleve. From 1902 to 1914 Heinrich Lamers (1864–1933) trained as a church and decorative painter in Kleve. During the First World War he was injured as a soldier in France by a bullet that pierced his jaw and both cheeks. In 1919 he married Maria Trepmann from Kleve. The couple had three children. From 1925, Mooren appeared as a landscape painter with motifs from the Lower Rhine and the Netherlands. Together with Walther Brüx , Hanns Lamers , Achilles Moortgat , Albert Reibmayr and others, he founded the artist guild Profil in the 1930s . He was also a member of the Niederrheinischer Künstlerbund . At times he ran a joint art shop with Reibmayr on Haagschen Strasse in Kleve.
literature
- Guido de Werd , Museum Haus Koekkoek (ed.): Josef Mooren, painter of the Lower Rhine . Boss-Verlag, Kleve 1985.
Web links
- Josef Mooren , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( RKD - Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis )
- Mooren, Josef , biography in the portal galerie-heinz-janssen.com
- Josef Mooren , biography in the portal kunsthandlungkappelhoff.de
- Josef Mooren , Auction Results on the Portal artnet .de
- Literature by and about Josef Mooren in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wiltrud Schnütgen: Some pictures remained unpainted . Article from March 19, 2016 in the derwesten.de portal , accessed on July 18, 2020.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mooren, Josef |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German landscape painter, restorer and church painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kleve |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1987 |
| Place of death | Kleve |