Marius de Jongere - Havengezicht Rotterdam - Sold

Large watercolor with a classic harbor view of Rotterdam with which the painter has become famous. In the background Hotel New York with the landmark towers. In the fifties the building of the Holland America Line Signed: lower left M de Jongere
Condition: good Family owned since the 1950s/1960s
The painter Marinus Drulman often worked under the pseudonym Marinus de Jongere. He made study trips to Belgium, France, Switzerland and Germany. Was a student of the Academy of Visual Arts in Rotterdam. He drew and painted landscapes and harbors in the naturalistic-impressionistic style. Gained great fame for his harbor views. (text taken from galeriewijdemeren.nl) Marinus de Jongere experienced his artistic heyday in the fifties and sixties, precisely the time when Rotterdam was developing into the number one world port. The ocean giants of the Holland America Line were a familiar sight on the Wilhelminapier and images of those ships, the pride of seafaring Holland, were in great demand. At that time, De Jongere delivered several paintings a day. He had a whole series of canvases lined up in his studio. He walked past it while painting.
The fame of the painter is not limited to the Netherlands. The Greek shipping magnate Onassis once ordered 28 canvases, on which all ships of his fleet were depicted separately. American president Lyndon B. Johnson visited the painter in his studio in Hillegersberg during a visit in the 1960s and bought five Dutch landscapes.