Han Bolte - Outer value - Sold

Year: 1940-1949 Technique: Watercolor Signature: lower right on watercolor. Edition: Unique work Condition: Very good. Image: 38 x 27 cm Frame: 42 x 51 cm, concerns a wooden frame gold, green, blue mottled with brown side. The frame has some user damage Frame height 2.5 cm and width 2.5 cm Hendrik Pieter 'Han' Bolte Education: Drawing Institute Piersma Amsterdam Student of: Nico Baak Qualifies as a restorer, painter, watercolorist, pen artist. Was associated with the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem as a restorer. Subject: portraits, cityscapes, still lifes and figure representations. Member of the Dutch Watercolorists Circle Sources/Reference works Scheen 1969-1970 as: Bolte, Hendrik Pieter Han. The Frans Hals Museum has four of his works in its collection. After Tendeloo's death, in December 1952, the painter Han Bolte entered the museum's official service as a restorer. At that time, in addition to his independent artistry, Han Bolte had already had 25 years of practice as a restorer behind him. As a restorer, Han Bolte was actually self-taught. After the Teacher Training College, he took lessons at a MO drawing course and received private lessons from the painter Nico Baak, after which he was employed as a restorer at an Amsterdam art dealer until 1940. He then established his own restoration studio at Amstel 14 b in Amsterdam. He also worked as a freelance painter, and became a member of the Dutch Watercolourists' Circle, which also included Haarlem artists Kees Verwey and Otto de Kat, with whom he exhibited. In 1952, the then director Baard asked him to join the Frans Hals Museum. Han Bolte declared himself willing to work in the museum two days a week from December of that year, so that he would still have time for his free work and for other restoration work in his own studio. Han Bolte was the first to restore Van Scorel's The Baptism of Christ in the Jordan in the attic studio in the museum. Another important work he took on was Hals's late Regents' Piece, which took him eight months to complete and was completed in 1958. In total, during his 17-year employment, Han Bolte recanvassed, parqueted and otherwise treated around 100 paintings, by himself but also under his supervision; for example, he outsourced the parqueting of the aforementioned work by Van Scorel. Han Bolte distinguished himself from previous restorers by not restoring with oil-based paint, paint that darkens and produces colour differences, but with pigments with a non-oil-based medium. Han Bolte, who had learned a thing or two from other restorers, also passed on his knowledge, for example to Hélène Kat, who worked with him for some time in the Haarlem museum studio. With work represented in national and international collections of companies, institutions, private individuals and museums.