Jan Joest

January Joest from Kalkar, also known when Jan Joest van Kalkar, (* 1460, † 1519 ) was a Dutch painter of the Lower Rhine - Kalkar on the Lower Rhine, who was known for his religious paintings.

Life and work

Joest was nephew of the painter Wesel Derick Baegert. The son of Dericks Sister Catherine learned and worked in the workshop of his uncle. January Joests greatest work - scenes from the life of Jesus Christ - was built 1505-1508 on the high altar of the church of St. Nicolai in Kalkar. From the documents found there joined Canon Wolff that Joest 1518 in Cologne, worked for the Hackeney family before he most likely in the direction of Italy, more precisely, Genoa and Naples, left the Lower Rhine.

Then Joest returned to the Netherlands and settled in Haarlem, where he made a painting of St. Willibrord for the St. Bavo Church. The latest edition of Van der Willingen work on the Haarlem painter mentions the burial of an artist by the name of " January Joosten " in 1519.

Other works that are ascribed Joest, located in Wesel and Rees, but also the " Death of the Virgin " in Munich is regarded as a painting Joests.

Joest was compared with Gerard David and Hans Memling, however, belongs probably to school Scorel. A special feature of Joests work is the exquisite clarity of his colors and the fine design of the faces.

Scientific discovery

Until Canon Wolff and Dr. Eisenmann his person in 1874 introduced into the science that he was virtually unknown.