Jan van der Zee - Linosnede: Schedel - Sold

Linocut on paper by Jan van der Zee. Printed in black, on red background. Title: Skull. Edition: 39/50. Dimensions sheet: H52 x w72cm. Dimensions of the presentation: H40 x W59.5cm. The work is signed and dated by the artist in pencil lower right. The authenticity of the work offered is fully guaranteed. A certificate of authenticity can be emailed upon request. Shipping/picking up: When purchasing, the work can be picked up in 's-Gravenzande (near The Hague). (Scheveningen), Rotterdam and Delft and 5 minutes from the beach). The deadline for the pick up, with advance payment, is very spacious, in other words the buyer can do the work for weeks or even pick it up months later and if possible combine it with a visit to one of the the above-mentioned towns or the beach. The work can also be sent. Our shipping days are Tuesday and Thursday. Jan van der Zee (Leeuwarden, February 16, 1898 - Groningen, December 15, 1988) was a Dutch painter and monumental artist. life and work Jan van der Zee drew from childhood. His art teacher at the HBS in Leeuwarden brought him into contact with Jan Mankes, with whom he took drawing lessons for some time. Van der Zee was educated at the Minerva Academy (1919-1922) in Groningen, where he was taught by FH Bach and Willem Valk, among others. Van der Zee painted (gouache, oil) and watercolored landscapes, portraits, still lifes and cityscapes. He also made graphic art in the form of linocuts and woodcuts. Van der Zee belonged to the early Dutch Constructivists. Although he abstracted his subjects within the figurative work, they never really became abstract. In 1922 he founded the advertising agency Atelier Voor Arttische Reclame (AVAR) with Wobbe Alkema and Johann Faber, they rented studio space on the Noorderstationsstraat in Groningen. Van der Zee was a member of De Ploeg (1923-1948), then of Het Narrenschip. In 1958 he was co-founder of the Groningen painting group Nu. In 1965 he received the Cultural Prize of the province of Groningen. In 1986 the Fries Museum and the Groninger Museum held a major retrospective of his work. Van der Zee was not only active as a painter, but also made monumental work. Examples are the stairs at the Naberpassage on the Grote Markt (1975, removed in 2013) and the mosaic wall (1960) in front of the teacher training college on the Verzet Krijgerslaan. He made a number of stained glass windows for the Martinikerk.