Charles J. Kemper - Large folder with 10 watercolor, pastel, ink and charcoal drawings - signed

• An interesting collection of drawings by Charles Jean Kemper (1913-1985). A total of 10 drawings in various techniques including pastel, charcoal and pen(ink), which he mainly made in the 1950s. Portraits, still lifes etc. representations. Some signed and most provided with his studio stamp. Generally in good quality (some folds etc. please look carefully at the photos).

Charles Jean Kemper (Heemstede, September 18, 1913 - Rotterdam, October 25, 1985) was a Dutch painter.
Kemper worked for the police in Rotterdam and received evening lessons from PC Wilt. From the third year onwards he continued his education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rotterdam, where he was taught by Bautz (portraits and nudes). In 1947 he studied with HF Boot in Haarlem. He painted and watercoloured in Rotterdam, harbours, figures and portraits. His interiors of cafés and pubs form a separate genre in this. From 1951 Kemper was part of the Rotterdam exhibition group Argus, together with Kees Franse, Jan Goedhart, Ed van Zanden and later also Jan Burgerhout. Since then his interest has continued to focus on the advancing city, industrial activity and the decline of the countryside.
There were not many artists in the city in the early fifties, but there was, as Mathieu Ficheroux - who is the mural of Multatuli in the Van Oldenbarneveldstraat (1974) - saw it, a clear hierarchy. At the top he placed the Argus group, of which Louis van Roode was a member for some time after his Venster period. In addition to Van Roode, Jan Burgerhout, Kees Franse, Jan Goedhart, Charles Kemper, Huib Noorlander and Ed van Zanden belonged to this group. The founders chose the name Argus, the mythological giant with a hundred eyes, to clearly indicate that looking came first for them and that the members were not interested in a new movement in art.
In 1957, the Argus group celebrated its first lustrum with an exhibition at the Rotterdam Art Foundation on the Korte Lijnbaan. On that occasion, a particularly luxurious album was published in a small edition of forty copies. In addition to photos of the six members - Louis van Roode had already left the group around 1955 - this edition contained images of sculptures.