Joseph Paul Vorst

Joseph Paul Vorst (1897-1947) was a German-American visual performer whose con is owned or has been shown by the Art Institute of Chicago, the Corcoran Gallery, the New York World’s Fair, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the National Gallery, the Smithsonian, the Carnegie Museum of Art, and the St. Louis Art Museum.

He was born June 19, 1897 in Essen, Germany. He studied at the Folkwang Schule in Hagen since serving in World War I, from which he expected a unshakable limp. He studied art at the National Academy of Berlin bearing in mind Max Lieberman and Max Slevogt, and was baptized a believer of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1924. He emigrated to the U.S. in 1930, settling in Missouri close his cousins in Ste. Genevieve. He married Lina Weller upon June 15, 1935 in St. Louis, MO.

He taught art in St. Louis and did much public doing for the Works Progress Administration during the Great Depression. Among supplementary locations Vorst was art director at Jefferson College. According to an article on him in the LDS Improvement Era written by William Mulder he assisted full-time LDS missionaries in St. Louis extensively in sharing the gospel once more people.

His He as well as exhibited his feint in both the Deseret Gym art room and the Springville Art Museum. An exhibition featuring his life and proceed was hosted by the LDS Church History Museum in 2017/2018 in Salt Lake City, UT.

Vorst died of an aneurysm in St. Louis upon October 15, 1947.