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Joseph Meert was born on 1905 in Brussels, Belgium, is an American artist. Discover Joseph Meert's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 84 years old?

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Age 84 years old
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Born 1905, 1905
Birthday 1905
Birthplace Brussels, Belgium
Date of death 1989
Died Place Waterbury, Connecticut
Nationality Belgium

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1905

Joseph Meert (1905 - 1989) was an American artist who created three New Deal post office murals.

Meert was born in 1905 in Brussels, Belgium.

As a child he immigrated with his family to Kansas City, Missouri.

He studied at the Kansas City Art Institute and then Art Students League of New York.

His teachers included Thomas Hart Benton, Kenneth Hayes Miller, Boardman Robinson, and John Sloan.

While at the Art Students League, Meert became friends with Jackson Pollock.

1910

Meert married fellow artist Margaret Mullin (1910–1980) in the 1930s.

1930

In the 1930s Meert was associated with the Ste. Genevieve Art Colony in Ste.

Genevieve, Missouri.

1935

The couple located in Kansas City where Meert taught at the Kansas City Art Institute from 1935 through 1941, along with his former teacher Thomas Hart Benton.

During this time Meert was commissioned to paint post office murals for the Treasury Section of Painting and Sculpture.

1938

In 1938 he completed the mural Contemporary Life in Missouri for the Marceline, Missouri, post office.

1940

The friendship continued into the 1940s, when Meert retrieved a drunken Pollock from a snow bank where Pollock had fallen unconscious.

In 1940 he completed the mural Spring Pastoral for the Mount Vernon, Missouri, post office.

The same year he completed the mural Harvesting for the Spencer, Indiana, post office.

1941

In 1941 the Meerts returned to New York and by 1946 Meert's style transitioned into abstract art.

1944

Meert's work was included in 1944 Dallas Museum of Art exhibition of the National Serigraph Society.

Meert's mental health deteriorated in his later years.

1986

In 1986 the Pollock-Krasner Foundation provided funds for Meert's care at a facility in Cheshire, Connecticut.

1989

Meert died in 1989 in Waterbury, Connecticut.

Meert's work is in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, National Gallery of Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

2009

In 2009 a retrospective of his work, titled Joseph Meert: painting in the shadow of success was held at the Koehnline Museum of Art.