Jan Strube - Farmhouse interior around 1900, NB Netherlands

Famous lithograph by the Brabant artist Jan Strube. Lithograph with many details.
Restored and reframed with acid-free materials.
Image size: 35 x 52 cm. Sheet size: 39 x 56 cm. Frame size: 48 x 68 cm.

Jan Strube (Amsterdam, 20 September 1892 – Breda, 9 November 1985) was a Dutch painter. He lived most of his life in North Brabant.
After the trade school, Strube attended the Quellinusschool, a painting and drawing school that was the forerunner of the Rietveld Academy. Around 1911, Strube visited Breda for the first time. Strube loved this city and the Brabant countryside. After the mobilization, Strube became a member of the artists' club De Onafhankelijken and later also of Arti et Amicitiae.
In the early twenties the couple moved to Brabant and settled in a wooden house on the edge of the Liesbos, near Breda. There Strube tried to keep his head above water with his lithographs, drawings and woodcuts. After a few years they left again for Amsterdam, where the cultural climate was more favourable. Nevertheless, Brabant continued to attract them and after the birth of daughter Sonja, in 1927 in Amsterdam, they returned to their wooden house, now for good.
In 1933 Strube founded the Bredasche Kunstkring together with the artists Gerrit de Morée, Dio Rovers and Paul Windhausen. Strube became a well-known figure in and around Breda and received more and more commissions.
He became especially known for his many lithographs with the subject of Brabant farm life. But also the Grote Kerk in Breda, the Begijnhof and the harbour of Leur were regularly recurring subjects. In addition to the Brabant and city scenes, Strube also made still lifes in oil paint. When he died at the age of 93, he left behind an enormous oeuvre.