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Jan Mankes - Raven on Berkeboom - heliogravure after a woodcut by Jan Mankes. The woodcut is from 1913.
The heliogravure was printed in 1923 and published by his wife. A. Zernike-Mankes and Roland Holst. Publisher: JAAM Van Es - Utrecht 1923. Signed in the plate.
Very good condition
Jan Mankes (1889-1920) was only thirty years old, but left behind almost two hundred paintings that are more alive than ever. Interest in his work has grown in recent decades, with numerous publications and exhibitions. Mankes preferred to seclude himself in nature and in his studio. Outwardly he was calm, inwardly he was restless. He was an artist who wanted to express his spiritual life and to this end he looked for ways to penetrate more deeply into the objects he depicted. His work is characterized by stillness, refinement, simplicity, purity and melancholy. His work is characterized by stillness, refinement, simplicity, purity and melancholy. His entire oeuvre, which was created between 1907 and 1918, comprises about 150 paintings, mostly in small formats, about 100 drawings and more than 40 sheets of graphics, mainly etchings and woodcuts.