Joos de Momper

Joos de Momper born in 1564 and deceased on February 5th 1635 with Antwerp is a Flemish Artist-painter .

His/her father, his grandfather and his great-grandfather were painters, collectors and merchants of Article It begins his formation near his father of which he is apprentice. Momper is famous for its remarkable Paysage S. Its landscapes marine or of mountain, which announce already the Romantisme, appear in many European museums, the Herzog-Anton-Ulrich-Museum of Braunschweig, the old art gallery of Munich, the museum of Hamburg and the museum of Leipzig ( Museum DER bildenden Künste ).

De Momper systematized an already old and somewhat obsolete process at its time, the atmospheric Perspective, to draw from it an admirable style, perfect expression of its genius: the foreground in the colors red-brown grows blurred gradually towards the background gray-blue thanks to the transition offered by the colors green-yellow to the center from the table. Its first landscapes adopt a raised prospect, but later he will prefer a lower prospect.

Momper also collaborated in decoration with other painters, in particular Rubens, Hendrick van Balen and Jan Bruegel Old the.

An account going back to 1595 indicates that Momper drew paperboards for the Manufacture of the Goblins.

Work painted

the Four seasons (1612-1620?) Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum , Braunschweig, Lower Saxony

External bonds

Sky, clouds and atmospheric prospect at Momper
the four seasons

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