Jan Holtrop
- Artist
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Jan Holtrop
1917 - Netherlands - 1995 - Dealer
- Kunsthandel D.J. Zeeman
January Holtrop Lemmer 1917-1995 school Oosterbeek Oosterbeek The painter January Holtrop was October 5, 1917 in Friesland Lemmer born. Then in January five years old the family moved Holtrop to Hilversum, where they Leeghwaterstraat a fish trade began. January came soon apprenticed to the famous Hilversum landscape painter Johan FC Scherrewitz (1853-1903), which workshop held at the Soestdijkerstraatweg Hilversum. Scherrewitz work was strongly influenced by the Hague School. His style and sense of color are again clearly seen in the work of Holtrop. Although often Holtrop stemmiger worked and increasingly private sunnier, blonder pallet onwikkelde. An art trade in the Church Brink was the first paintings of Holtrop sold. And his work in 1948 for the first time - very successfully - exhibited in the art trade Gebr. Koch in Rotterdam. Hilversum Jan was a long time member of the Society of Arts, which include also Jan Rijlaarsdam and Henri Marie Mackenzie active member of the goods. In Laren he maintained contacts the association of visual artists Laren, Blaricum and Gooise Painter Vere Ning. . 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, though he stemmiger and sometimes almost romantic. In the sixties, he shifted his field for Oosterbeek area. Holtrop also painted landscapes in Germany and Austria. Info: Shin, J Work Holtrop is often exhibited in The Netherlands and Germany.
