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Painting: Hand signed.
Technique: Oil on panel
Series: Unique
Year: 1954
Image dimensions: 41 x 33 cm
Frame dimensions: 53 x 44.5 cm.
Frame is 6.5 cm wide and 3.5 cm high and has minor user damage, see photos.
Johan Briedé (1885-1980)
Briedé was a painter and graphic artist, but also made ex-libris and designs for book covers and book and dust jackets. He was also an illustrator and typographer.
He found his subjects mainly in nature, and he got a lot of inspiration from his travels to Sweden, France, Spain and Mallorca. He was also often found on the Hilversumkanaal, where he studied the water plants from his boat. In his landscapes, the influence of Art Nouveau, with its stylized lines and plant motifs, is clearly visible. Briedé gained this influence from, among others, his artist friend Theo van Hoytema.
Briedé's career in the applied arts sector had begun in 1910, when he started working as an artist for companies, publishers and magazines. He designed the book covers and jackets for dozens of publications by WL & J. Brusse's Uitgeversmaatschappij. He provided the illustrations for some publications, such as 'Beschouwingen over bouwkunst en here ontwikkeling' by HP Berlage (1911), and he designed the covers and jackets for the large series of nature books by William L. Long.
Briedé made 130 pen drawings for the book 'Oude huizen van Rotterdam', which was published by Brusse in 1915. He was also the book cover designer for Van Nijgh en Van Ditmar, Sijthoff and the Wereldbibliotheek, among others, and he provided many commissions for municipal services in Rotterdam. Due to the changing views in his time, Briedé was given the space to develop in many art forms. Johan Briedé managed to establish himself as a valued artist, whose work was purchased by the Rijksprentenkabinet in Amsterdam and various Dutch museums. But what was more important: his work in the applied sector brought his work into contact with a large audience.
Briedé was later a professor at the school for visual arts in Roermond and taught at various schools in Rotterdam, The Hague, Haarlem and Amsterdam. He married Mary Grietje Brandsma in 1912 and the couple moved to the Netherlands several times. In 1980 Briedé died after a very productive life