Joop Moesman
5 albums/51 artworks – Johannes Hendrikus (Joop) Moesman (1909 – 1988) was a Dutch surreal painter, calligrapher, typographer and type designer. Initially he worked as a draftsman at the Dutch Railways. His father, Johannes Anthonius Moesman, was a draftsman, lithographer, stone printer and amateur photographer. The self-taught Moesman visited Galerie Nord, run by the surrealist Willem Wagenaar, located in the Vinkenburgstraat. It was a stone’s throw from his birthplace. There, he found a French magazine. In it, he discovered images of surreal painters. He became fascinated by this new movement and started working in a similar style. He became the most important surrealist painter in the Netherlands. Moesman was considered a difficult man; always against everything, sullen, but progressive. He…
