Translated with Google Translate. Original text show .
Classic work by artist and Artibus teacher Henk Bellaard. Towpath along a river with a farm and trees. Nicely painted, beautiful light.
Henk Bellaard began his career as a decorative painter for companies. He made decorations for the RR Bruijnen company in Rotterdam, produced drawings for the Caran d'Ache factories in Geneva and designed tourist prints of Holland for Damall in Texas (USA) and Ken Ross in Alberta (Canada). In 1939, in collaboration with several other painters, he provided the decorations for the parade on the occasion of the centenary of the Dutch Railways. He made a diorama for the Philips factories in Eindhoven. He also worked for the Royal Inventum Factory, the Hypsos advertising agency and the Abee company.
Henk Bellaard was appointed teacher at the Vrije Academie Artibus in Utrecht in 1947, but had been working as a teacher at the Stichts Genootschap Artibus since 14 April 1943. He was a teacher of Frans Ruwel, Rien Goené and many contemporaries.
Provenance: Dutch private collection
Period: 1940s/1950s
During the auction, the work can be viewed by appointment in the center of Utrecht.