Josef M (Joseph) Arentz (Maine, Maryland / Germany, 1903 - 1969) Luminous coastal scene. Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. Sight size: 19 x 29 inches. Josef Arentz (1903-1969) was a renowned painter of maritime scenes, though he also painted numerous New England landscapes and portraits. He was born in Odendorf, Germany in 1903 and came to the United States in 1926. he had a one-man show, and a work accepted for the Maryland Artists Exhibition earned an award from the Baltimore Museum of Art. Shortly thereafter he began reproducing some of his paintings for the New York publisher, David Ashley. A visit to Portland Head Light in Portland, Maine, inspired Arentz's move to Maine.