Johannes E. Møller
International marine painter


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Johannes E. Møller (b. Frederikshavn 1953) is Denmark´s leading marine artist; 
one of very few full-time employed professional marine painters in Scandinavia.

 His works are represented in many private and corporate collections all over the world, including: 
the Baltic Exchange, London, The Switzer Towage and Salvage Company, Hempel Marine Paints A/S, 
the Jubilee Sailing Trust, England, Sir Robert Knox Johnson, England, and on loan to the 
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.

His marine paintings are very well  known in international shipping circles  through seven years of 
contributing works to the Hempel Calendar, wich is distributed worldwide in 55.000 copies each  year.


 

This watercolour is from his 1994-1995 jubilee-voyages on Georg Stage. 
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The keel to his present work as a marine artist was laid early in his life. 
Being a grandson to a sailing ship captain, he made his first shipboard drawings at the age of three. 
When he was 15 he took to the sea, first as a cadet on the Danish sail training vessel Georg Stage, 
later on in the merchant fleet and on board the schooner Brita Leth. 

Then he gave up his career as a sailor and went to an art academy, where he spent three years, 
developing his drawing and painting skills. 
He is now living with his family in the north west part  of Sjælland, with a striking view 

from his studio to the Isefjord.  



His wooden 20ft sailing craft from 1940 gives him the opportunity 
to seek out fresh maritime inspiration on the fjord.

Johannes E. Møller in Nyhavn, Copenhagen

I love the spontaneity and the surprises in that process.  In the studio, on the other hand, 
I can spend months working on an elaborate oil painting, going into minute details. 

Both forms of expression interest me profoundly and they supplement each other very well. 

I am grateful to my old ship, the full rigged Georg Stage, for two atlantic voyages in 1994 and 1995.
These voyages expanded my knowledge of tall ship navigation in deep waters. 
I keep abreast modern shipping through occasional sailing trips in merchant vessels, 
as well as commissioned work for related companies."

E-mail to Johannes E. Møller: villalondon@gmail.com

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