Jan Strube (1892-1985) - The Goat

Jan Strube (Amsterdam, 20 September 1892 – Lies, 9 November 1985) was a Dutch painter. The majority of his life he lived in North Brabant.

Title: "The Goat", drawing watercolor (mixed technique) around 1920

Incl lijst 29,5 Hoog x 38,5 cm. Breed( lijst wordt er gratis bijgeleverd)
Afbeeldingsformaat 17,5 cm. Hoog x 27 cm Breed

After the craft school, where he trained to become a house painter, Strube attended the Quellinus School, a painting and drawing school that was the predecessor of the Rietveld Academy. Around 1911 Strube visited Breda for the first time. Strube loved the city, the Brabant countryside, and the carpenter’s daughter Dina Bogers from the parish village Leur.
In 1917 he married Bogers. The young couple settled in Amsterdam. Shortly afterward Strube had to report for military service due to mobilization. He was stationed at Fort Kudelstaart near Amsterdam. During his service they welcomed their first daughter Greta.
After mobilization Strube joined the artists’ club De Onafhankelijken and later also Arti et Amicitiae.
In the early twenties the couple moved to Brabant and settled in a wooden house on the edge of Liesbos. There Strube tried to make ends meet with his lithographs, drawings and woodcuts. After a few years they moved again to Amsterdam, where the cultural climate was more favorable. Yet Brabant kept drawing them back and after the birth of daughter Sonja, in 1927 in Amsterdam, they returned to their wooden house, now for good.
In 1933 Strube, together with the artists Gerrit de Morée, Dio Rovers and Paul Windhausen, founded the Bredasche Kunstkring. Strube became a well-known figure in and around Breda and received more and more commissions.
He became especially known for his many lithographs with the subject of Brabant peasant life. But the Grote Kerk of Breda, the Begijnhof and the harbor town of Leur were also recurring subjects. Besides Brabant rural and urban scenes, Strube also made still lifes in oil. When he dies at the age of 93 he leaves behind a huge oeuvre.
In 2007 a book about his life and work by Anton Joosen appeared. The Stichting Vrienden van Jan Strube (Friends of Jan Strube Foundation) keeps his artistic memory alive and regularly organizes exhibitions, art auctions and lectures about this remarkable "Amsterdamse Brabander". The foundation also from time to time issues art calendars and art cards.

The artwork will be shipped from the Netherlands, can also optionally be picked up free of charge in Schiedam.