Herman Moerkerk - Kantoor scene - Sold

Original pencil drawing by Herman Moerkerk, behind glass in a beautiful frame with passe-partout. The drawing is in excellent condition and hand-signed lower right.
Biography; Hermanus Antonius Josephus Maria (Herman) Moerkerk ('s-Hertogenbosch, March 2, 1879 – Haarlem, August 23, 1949) was a Dutch painter, illustrator, draftsman and binding designer.
Moerkerk came from a family of textile merchants who had started a company in Den Bosch in 1854, and worked for a long time in his parents' shop. He married Henriette Jita Alard, who died five years after her husband, in 1954.
Moerkerk attended grammar school 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 (in 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 newspapers in Brabant and was active as an organizer of the carnival. He also wrote a number of fairy tales and children's books. In 1928 he left with his family for Haarlem, where he started working for De Spaarnestad. He worked there until 1940 as an employee of the Catholic Illustration; He also designed bindings and book covers. Moerkerk also worked as a draftsman for the Catholic newspaper De Tijd and directed the theater for the Haarlem Rederijkerskamer Alberdingk Thijm, founded in 1890. The painter Jacques Pijnenborg was one of his students.