Jan Stroosma - Large pastel drawing "Dike repair flood disaster 1953 Zeeland" signed - Sold

• Large pastel drawing on paper "dike repair flood disaster 1953 Zeeland" made in December 1953 by the Frisian artist and graphic artist Jan Stroosma (1928-1983). Signed and dated lower right. The large drawing is in good condition with some minor edge damage. NOT framed.

Jan Stroosma (Leeuwarden, November 16, 1928 - there, 1983) was a Frisian graphic artist, sculptor, photographer and painter. To live Jan Stroosma lived and worked in his native city until 1956, where he moved into his first studio at Zuidvliet 261 in the early 1950s. From 1957 to 1961 he lived in Amsterdam where he studied at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten. There he was taught by, among others, Gé Röling and Jan Wiegers. He then lived and worked in Leeuwarden, where he moved into a studio at Kruisstraat 25 in 1962, which he used until his sudden death in 1983. Work To support himself, Stroosma taught at the art academies Academie Vredeman de Vries in Leeuwarden, at the AKI in Enschede and later also at the Minerva Academy in Groningen. With this he bought, as he himself said, part of his freedom. In his work, Stoorsma mainly focused on abstractions, landscapes and cityscapes. As a graphic artist he also designed postage stamps, contributing to the design of the 1964 summer stamps. In 1993, a special exhibition was held in Leeuwarden with the theme of Jan Stroosma as a painter. According to the reviewer of the Leeuwarder Courant, painting was not Stroosma's top priority. The work remains somewhat heavy compared to his graphic work, which has more tension, yet the paintings also show an interesting side of Stroosma. In the years before his sudden death, Stroosma was occupied with the perspective studies of Vredeman de Vries (1527-1607), as these had never before been carried out in reality. Stroosma made various models (maquettes) to scale that were posthumously exhibited at Galerie van Hulsen.