Stapel, Gerrit - 1 Original preliminary drawing - voor Koning Arthur - (jaren 1980)

About the artist;
Gerrit Stapel (Amsterdam, May 19, 1921 – Eindhoven, July 18, 2013) was a Dutch comic artist. He became known for comics and illustrations he made for the Marten Toonder Studios. He was especially specialized in historical comics, drawn in a realistic style. Stapel began his career as an illustrator in 1942 while employed by the film company Nederland Film in The Hague, where he joined the animation department. There he worked on an anti-Jewish film adaptation of the book Van den vos Reynaerde. At the beginning of 1943 he moved to Bavaria Film on the Laan van Meerdervoort, where pro-German propaganda films were also made. After the liberation, Stapel briefly worked as a pianist in an Amsterdam nightclub before he would start making political cartoons for Het Parool. In 1949 he created his first comics for Het Vrije Volk. In 1952 he entered the service of the Toonder Studios, for which he would create comics and illustrations for a long time. In 1955 Stapel anonymously drew the booklet Vleugels boven Afrika, an edition of the Missionary Society of the Dutch Reformed Church. In addition to the many daily strips for Toonder, Gerrit Stapel also spent years creating puzzles for newspapers via the puzzle agency Daane, and he illustrated presentation material. In 1964 he drew, also outside the Toonder Studios, a strip about Swiebertje for the women’s magazine Prinses. In 2003 Stapel (together with two other laureates) received the Bulletje en Boonestaak award for his entire oeuvre. In the late eighties Stapel published his last large comic, but he continued drawing until about his nineties. Then he had to give up drawing due to poor eyesight and deteriorated motor skills. Stapel died in 2013 in his hometown Eindhoven. Especially his work for Marten Toonder Studios (in the style of Hans G. Kresse) is of an unparalleled class. He approached Kresse. It is no coincidence that Stapel received Kresse’s request to temporarily take over the drawing work of Eric de Noorman for Pum Pum when Kresse was too busy. Kresse found Stapel’s work fantastic and also loved the drawings of Eric that Stapel had drawn, as wonderful…

This lot contains a beautiful, large drawing that Gerrit Stapel made for “Koning Arthur” (King Arthur). The drawing is in ink and wash with watercolour. A magnificent painting. See what a wonderful technique with a brush and East Indian ink this is. This is pure Art.

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