Tjeerd Bottema - Etching, Windmill near Leiden - Sold

Bottema was a student at the Industrial School of the Society for the Working Class, the Applied Arts School Quellinus and the National Academy of Visual Arts in Amsterdam. He was a student of, among others, August Allebé, Antoon Derkinderen, George Sturm and Nicolaas van der Waay. He won the Prix de Rome in 1907 and, after graduating from the National Academy, was therefore able to make various art trips to Italy, Spain, Morocco, France, England and Belgium, among others. From 1911 to 1919 he worked in Laren. He then settled in Katwijk aan Zee, where he continued to live until his death in 1978. Bottema was also an advertising cartoonist and illustrator. As an advertising designer, he designed the RVS logo, the man with the top hat and walking stick with the woman under a parasol. As an illustrator, he made drawings for the books of the Protestant Christian writers Anne de Vries and WG van de Hulst, but he also made drawings for the socialist magazine De Ware Jacob.[1] A drawing he made of a wanderer inspired the writer John Henri uit den Bogaard to create the TV character Swiebertje.[2] Brother Tjerk Bottema His brother Tjerk, who was two years older, was also a painter. He died in 1940 on board the SS Berenice, which was torpedoed in the Channel, on its flight from Bordeaux. Frédérique Bruyel-van der Palm described them both in her book Tjerk and Tjeerd Bottema. Katwijk Museum The Katwijks Museum has the Bottema Hall on the first floor, which is named after Tjeerd Bottema. His legacy made it possible to furnish and open the Katwijk Museum in the former shipowner's house in 1983. In this room, also in varying compositions, works by Tjeerd Bottema, his brother Tjerk Bottema, his wife Cornelia van Amstel and their daughters Hil Bottema and Johanna Bottema can be seen. Source: Wikipedi