Maarten Langbroek - Etching, “Prinsengracht”. - Sold

Artist: Maarten Langbroek.
Title: “Prinsengracht”. Written in pencil at the bottom left.
Technique: Etching.
Dimensions: Frame, H. 24.5 x W. 30.5 cm. Image, H. 18 x W. 23 cm.
Framed: In a frame with a passe-partout and glass plate.
Signed: Hand signed in pencil lower right.
Circulation: Unknown.

Maarten Langbroek (IJmuiden, 17 July 1918 – Harderwijk, 6 April 1985) was a Dutch draftsman, graphic artist and painter.
Langbroek took private lessons from Kees van den Bosch in the early 1930s. In 1935 he became a student at the Amsterdam Institute for Applied Arts Education, where he obtained his LO drawing certificate in 1938. He went into hiding during the Second World War. After the war he worked as an illustrator for various publishers and companies. Langbroek mainly made etchings, but also watercolors, with subjects including ship images (with ships of the Holland-America Line), harbor views, cityscapes and animals. He was a member of the GVN (Graphic Designers Netherlands). From 1969 he was a drawing teacher at secondary school in addition to being an artist.
Langbroek retired in 1981 and died a few years later at the age of 66.