Joos de Momper

Joos de Momper ( Antwerp * 1564, † February 5, 1635 ) was a Dutch painter. His father, grandfather and great-grandfather were painters, images collected, bought, sold and installed stitches from around the world.

Work

Momper is known as a master of landscape painting. His pre-Romantic mountain and seascapes include 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 Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna and in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister to visit in Dresden. De Momper has raised in his landscapes in his time ridiculed the old tools of landscape painting (red- brown foreground, yellow-green center piece, gray - blue distance ) to a sovereign style to a " means of expression " its monumentality. This Flemish coloring corresponds to the passage of sunlight through the atmosphere. The perception of light by the human eye is determined by the variation of the solar radiation in the visible range of the molecules and particles in the atmosphere. Especially in light-filled landscapes outweigh the warm colors in the foreground and the cold colors in the background due to Rayleigh scattering. Therefore Joos de Momper is one of the most important Flemish landscape painters because of his landscapes show the transition from the world of Mannerist landscape for naturalistic Dutch landscape painting of the 17th century.

From a payment document from 1595 shows that de Momper has also supplied designs for tapestries.