Moesman, Johannes Hendrikus

(1/6/1909 Utrecht-1988) (Netherlands); aka Moesman, Jan Hendrik

   Railway employee and self-taught painter, draughtsman, and engraver. Early Danish Surrealist in the style of Dali. He lived a reclusive life and little is known of him. His works frequently incorporate sexual imagery.

   Source: Benezit, vol. 9: p. 1085; Jose Vovelle, "Corps agresses ou erotique voiles: de la photo a la peinture surrealiste," in De la Metaphysique au physique, ed. by M. Menier (Paris: Sorbonne, 1995), pp. 161-169.