Poppe Damave - Beautiful 1950s etching "the meal" - in original frame - pencil-signed

• Poppe Harmanus Damave (Groningen, 21 January 1921 – Bonn, 18 August 1988), was a Dutch painter, watercolourist, draftsman, engraver and illustrator.

Life and work
He was the son of Maria Elisabeth Kerstholt and hat maker Koos Damave. He was married to Tine Martin. His daughter, Dini Damave, briefly worked in the film industry, appearing on the film Flodder. His daughter, Henriëtte, is somewhat known as the illustrator of The Secret Diary of Adriaan Mole, 13 3/4 Years and The Growing Pains of Adriaan Mole.
Poppe Damave was born in Groningen. His parents moved to Haarlem in 1926, where Poppe would live for the rest of his life. Around the age of sixteen, he attended the Haarlem School of Applied Arts in the evenings, where he would remain a student for five years. His teacher at this institute was Windt. He also studied with Henri Boot and A.J. Grootens. In 1942, he studied for a time at the Maastricht Academy of Fine Arts. Afterward, he worked for two years in the studio of Kees Verwey. After the Second World War, Damave became a member of the Teisterbant society and co-founded De Groep, which he chaired for sixteen years. He was also a member of De Acht, the Amsterdam artists' society Arti et Amicitiae, the Dutch Watercolorists Circle, the Dutch Circle of Artists, the Bergen Artists' Center (KCB), and the Society of Visual Artists in Haarlem, "Kunst zij ons Doel" (Art is our Goal).
Damave is considered one of the "Haarlem Fifties," which also included Anton Heyboer, Frans Verpoorten, and Kees Okx. His subjects included interiors, cityscapes, landscapes, portraits, and still lifes.
For a large part of his life, Poppe Damave worked in Haarlem at number 9 Lange Herenstraat. He lived even longer at Donkere Spaarne 54.
In 1947, the artist exhibited his work "Haarlem Jonge Kunst" at the Frans Hals Museum in his hometown of Haarlem. Many exhibitions followed, including one in 1958 at the Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar, organized by the Dutch Watercolorists' Circle, a traveling exhibition throughout the United States in 1961, and two years later, under the auspices of the Ministry of Education, Arts and Sciences (OKW), a traveling exhibition through England, Paris, Brussels, Maastricht, and Groningen.
In 1961, Damave received a travel grant from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OKW) for Greece and Turkey. He enjoyed traveling, preferably by ship. Damave sailed for several years, even working as a ship's cook. He visited Russia, Lapland, Scotland, England, Ireland, France, Spain, North Africa, Turkey, and Greece.