Herman Moerkerk - De mijnwerkers - Sold

Interesting drawing by Herman Moerkerk. The miners. The artwork and frame are in perfect condition.
packaged and sent by registered mail.

Moerkerk attended the gymnasium in Sittard and later made a name for himself as a writer, director and designer of posters. He did not receive any art training, but was a student of the calligrapher Theodorus van Kempen (1896), of the painter Piet Slager Sr., and from 1899 he took lessons with the painter Jan Bogaerts. Moerkerk developed as an independent artist: around 1910 he was already quite known as a draftsman, especially for his caricatures of Brabant folk types. He also provided critiques in the Brabant newspapers and was active as an organizer of the carnival. He also wrote a number of fairy tales and children's books. Because he felt that he was misunderstood as a painter, in August 1927 he showed some forty expressionist oil paintings in Tilburg under the pseudonym Alexei Wladkine, which differed from his other work. At this exhibition Moerkerk mingled with the public and made critical remarks to them about the works he had made himself.
In 1928 he moved with his family to Haarlem, where he was employed by the publishing and printing company 'De Spaarnestad'. (Source: wikipedia)