Joos de Momper the younger
Joos de Momper the younger (Joos de Momper), 1564, Antwerp - 1635, Antwerp - Flemish landscape painter, representative of late Mannerism. Son and student of the artist Bartholomeus de Momper.
The work of this master is one of the most interesting pages in the history of the old Western European landscape. In his works, one can see a generalization of the experience of landscape painters of the 16th century, and at the same time, he outlined the further development of this genre in Flemish art. The artist was not a relative of anyone from the Brueghel family, but worked closely with Jan Brueghel the Elder and his son Jan Brueghel the Younger. He can safely be awarded the title of follower of Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Like the famous master, Jos de Momper the Younger at the beginning of his journey came into contact with the Italianizing tradition in the Dutch art, but reinterpreted it, creating an individual style. Finally, the uniqueness of the artist's painting technique, the brightness and freshness of the colors, the transparency of the shadows and the mobility of the brushstroke make it possible to consider the work of Jos de Momper the Younger a significant phenomenon in the prehistory of the European plein air and, in a broader sense, impressionism.
