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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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Brussels, Belgium |
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1989 |
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Waterbury, Connecticut |
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Joseph Meert Height, Weight & Measurements
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Joseph Meert Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Joseph Meert worth at the age of 84 years old? Joseph Meert’s income source is mostly from being a successful painter. He is from Belgium. We have estimated Joseph Meert's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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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.
Meert married fellow artist Margaret Mullin (1910–1980) in the 1930s.
In the 1930s Meert was associated with the Ste. Genevieve Art Colony in Ste.
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.
In 1938 he completed the mural Contemporary Life in Missouri for the Marceline, Missouri, post office.
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.
In 1941 the Meerts returned to New York and by 1946 Meert's style transitioned into abstract art.
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.
In 1986 the Pollock-Krasner Foundation provided funds for Meert's care at a facility in Cheshire, Connecticut.
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.
In 2009 a retrospective of his work, titled Joseph Meert: painting in the shadow of success was held at the Koehnline Museum of Art.