Ber Mengels - Retired locomotives - Sold

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• Beautiful work by Ber Mengels.
• Framed with a beautiful frame and passe-partout & glass plate.
• Hand signed from the 1950s.
• The oil on canvas version is depicted in the book "Nieuwe Haagse School". See also the photo attached.
• I'm unsure if it's a pen ink drawing or charcoal, I'm not sure and I can do both.

Information about the artist: Hubertus ('Ber') Johannes Mengels (Heerlen 6 May 1921 – 19 June 1995 The Hague), sculptor, graphic artist, draftsman, painter, watercolorist and teacher at the Vrije Academie The Hague. -From miner to artist: At the age of 16, Ber exchanged his job as a baker's assistant for a job at the mine. Mengels lasted in the mine until 1942. Later, in the years 1949-1950, he was a miner again for a short time. During the period that he worked in the mine, Ber Mengels took lessons at the drawing school in Heerlen. He also took written drawing lessons at the ABC Teekenschool in Amsterdam. His talent received a boost when he came into contact with the Sittard painter William Paas during the war years. In his environment he discovered his calling as an artist. At that time he also took lessons at the Applied Arts School in Maastricht. In 1950 Ber Mengels moved to The Hague. He would live and work there for the rest of his life. -He initially worked in a pottery in The Hague. In the evenings he took classes at the Royal Academy of Art and the Free Academy. He also started supervising students at the Vrije Academie and in 1955 he was hired as a teacher of still life, portrait and figure. He remained affiliated with the Academy until 1979. He was fully part of The Hague's art life. He became a member of the Hague Art Circle and the Pulchri artists' association and exhibited his work at home and abroad. -Ber Mengels' oeuvre is diverse. He made realistic and abstract paintings, drawings and graphic work, but also made a name for himself with his sculptures, installations with light, movement and sound and musical instruments. His experiences in the mine contributed to the engagement he developed with oppressed and disillusioned people in a world full of danger, and to political and social protests, which found a place in his work as an artist. The mines and the miner also regularly returned as themes in his art. During foreign trips he made drawings of shaft trestle and spoil heaps and recorded mining landscapes. Ber Mengels' way of working has also been linked to his miner background. His hard work as an artist could be traced back to it. His studio also resembled a mine. He worked in a ground floor with hardly any daylight. He always worked under artificial light and preferably at night, as he had once worked in the mine... Source: Article by Serge Langeweg, March 1, 2015.
Please note: -The work can be picked up in Borne (Overijssel). Pickup is my strong preference. If desired, it can also be delivered free of charge in The Hague (by appointment), as I regularly go there.
The work can also be sent very carefully by post. In general this works very well, but given the size there is a small risk involved.