Zelfportrait ( 1913 ) by Jan Mankes,a Dutch painter
24x14.5
Jan Mankes ( 1889-1920 ) is regarded as the best graphic artist and painter of the 20th century.
He was born in Meppel in Drenthe and in 1902 attended the HBS but left the school because he was not interested and went to work as an assistant to a house painter.
Because of his father's work he family had to move to Delft. When Jan showed some of his drawings to the first designer of the studio for stained- glass artists: 't Prinsenhof he was invited to become an apprentice there and later took part in the restoration of the windows of the St.Janskerk in Gouda.
He also attended evening classes at the Academy for Applied Arts in Den Haag but in the in the second year he left because he could not see the models for the plaster casts properly because of his short-sightedness.
Around that time he starts painting for himself and practising
still life at small size.
In 1908 he decided to become an independent artist.
The first exposition of his graphic work,including wood engravings and etches, took place in 1910 and after that there were many expositions with art dealers in Amsterdam ,Arnhem,Den Haag and even München in Germany.
His works were bought ever since he started to work as an artist.
In 1914 he became engaged to Annie Zernike,the first female minister in Holland.In the evenings in the parsonage she read poetry with him and taught him German and French and he taught her to everything about birds and and animals aroud the house and to understand his work.Together they read Tolstoy's Folk tales.In 2015 they were married and on their honeymoon they went to Drenthe.Annie gave up her job as a minister.
They moved to The Hague in an upstairs department at the outskirts of the city.
In 1916 the first signs of tuberculosis appeared.He had to stay in bed for two months and after that he and his wife decided
to go and live in Eerbeek inGelderland in a house with view of the heathland, the wood and cornfields.They keep animals there: such as white mice,chickens,a guinea fowl a white cock.
In 2018 in March Jan and Annie's son Beinte was born.In October Annie took her Ph.D at the Theological Faculty of the Amsterdam University.
At the end of October Jan Mankes became a victim of the Spanish influenza epidemic which made millions of victims around the world.He recovered,but his body had weakened to
such an extent that he had to stay in bed for long periods.
In 2019 his work was exposed in the Civic Museum in Amsterdam and his complete oeuvre could be seen at an art dealer's in Utrecht.
in 1920 he died on 23 April in Eerbeek and was buried there.
Zelfportrait ( 1913 ) by Jan Mankes,a Dutch painter
24x14.5
Jan Mankes ( 1889-1920 ) is regarded as the best graphic artist and painter of the 20th century.
He was born in Meppel in Drenthe and in 1902 attended the HBS but left the school because he was not interested and went to work as an assistant to a house painter.
Because of his father's work he family had to move to Delft. When Jan showed some of his drawings to the first designer of the studio for stained- glass artists: 't Prinsenhof he was invited to become an apprentice there and later took part in the restoration of the windows of the St.Janskerk in Gouda.
He also attended evening classes at the Academy for Applied Arts in Den Haag but in the in the second year he left because he could not see the models for the plaster casts properly because of his short-sightedness.
Around that time he starts painting for himself and practising
still life at small size.
In 1908 he decided to become an independent artist.
The first exposition of his graphic work,including wood engravings and etches, took place in 1910 and after that there were many expositions with art dealers in Amsterdam ,Arnhem,Den Haag and even München in Germany.
His works were bought ever since he started to work as an artist.
In 1914 he became engaged to Annie Zernike,the first female minister in Holland.In the evenings in the parsonage she read poetry with him and taught him German and French and he taught her to everything about birds and and animals aroud the house and to understand his work.Together they read Tolstoy's Folk tales.In 2015 they were married and on their honeymoon they went to Drenthe.Annie gave up her job as a minister.
They moved to The Hague in an upstairs department at the outskirts of the city.
In 1916 the first signs of tuberculosis appeared.He had to stay in bed for two months and after that he and his wife decided
to go and live in Eerbeek inGelderland in a house with view of the heathland, the wood and cornfields.They keep animals there: such as white mice,chickens,a guinea fowl a white cock.
In 2018 in March Jan and Annie's son Beinte was born.In October Annie took her Ph.D at the Theological Faculty of the Amsterdam University.
At the end of October Jan Mankes became a victim of the Spanish influenza epidemic which made millions of victims around the world.He recovered,but his body had weakened to
such an extent that he had to stay in bed for long periods.
In 2019 his work was exposed in the Civic Museum in Amsterdam and his complete oeuvre could be seen at an art dealer's in Utrecht.
in 1920 he died on 23 April in Eerbeek and was buried there.