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1950s Jan Holtrop Oil Painting, Framed - $1,190 (Millbrae)
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Untitled
Oil on canvas
Dates: Circa 1945-1965
Signature: Hand-signed lower right
Dimensions: 23” L x 19” W
Framed: 32” L x 28” W x 3” H
Condition: Excellent vintage condition, minor fading on the side of the frame
Provenance: Private collection, Redwood City, CA
Jan Holtrop (1917-1995) Oosterbeek Oosterbeekse school: The painter Jan Holtrop was born on October 5, 1917, in Friesland Lemmer. At the age of five, the family moved to Hilversum. Holtrop soon apprenticed to the renowned landscape painter Johan FC Hilversum Scherrewitz (1853-1903), who had a studio in Hilversum, Soestdijkerstraatweg. The Hague School strongly influenced Scherrewitz's work. His style and sense of color are again clearly reflected in the work of Holtrop, although often Holtrop worked more with a sunnier, blonder onwikkelde pallet.
An art trade on the Brink was the first of Holtrop's paintings that sold, and his work in 1948 was successfully exhibited for the first time in the gallery Gebr Koch in Rotterdam. Holtrop had a strong preference for the landscape of the Veluwe and the Gooi Brabant. As regards his style, he remained close to that of his teacher. In the sixties, he shifted his field to the Oosterbeek area. Holtrop also painted landscapes in Germany and Austria. Holtrop's work is often exhibited in the Netherlands and Germany.
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