Artists
Joos De Momper
- Country:
- Belgium
- Birth year:
- 1564
- Death year:
- 1625
Joss de Momper (1564 Antwerp-1625 Antwerp) was born into a family of painters and art delaers. As early as 1581 he was inducted as a master into the Guild of St. Luke, of which he became deacon in 1611. Momper spent his entire life in Antwerp. Although there is nothing to document that the artist journeyed to Italy in the 1580s, stylistic evidence makes such a tour seem very probable. Momper devoted himself exclusively to landscapes in the tradition of Pieter Breugel the Elder, but Momper's work illustrates the change from the traditional universal landscape to the flat Netherlandish landscpae. Typical of the painter's style are bizarre high mountain ranges and broad landscape view in traditional layered color compositions. He occasionally worked with Jan Breughel and other Antwerp figure painters. Works by the artist include Mountain Landscape with Riders, c. 1595, Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmastadt; and Mountain Lands scape with Travelers, c. 1625, Narodni Galerie, Prague.