Huib de Ru - Potloodtekening: Naakte dame

Pencil drawing by Huib de Ru. Dimensions incl. frame: H48 x W38.5cm. Dimensions of the presentation: H23.5 x W15.5cm. The work is signed in pencil on the right side. The authenticity of the work offered is fully guaranteed. A certificate of authenticity can be emailed upon request.

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When purchasing, the work can be picked up in 's-Gravenzande (near The Hague).
(Scheveningen), Rotterdam and Delft and 5 minutes from the beach). The deadline for the
pick up, with advance payment, is very spacious, in other words the buyer can do the work for weeks or even
pick it up months later and if possible combine it with a visit to one of the
the above-mentioned towns or the beach. We can also ship the work. Our shipping days are Tuesday and Thursday.

Huibert Bernardus Wilhelmus (Huib) de Ru (Utrecht, 1 February 1902 – Haarlem, 19 November 1980) was a Dutch glazier, graphic designer, painter and monumental artist.

life and work
De Ru was a son of house painter Huibert Hendrik de Ru and Johanna Jansje Leen. He was educated at the School of Architecture, Decorative Arts and Craftsmanship in Haarlem (1916-1920) and subsequently worked in Willem Bogtman's glass studio. In 1920 he took part in a competition of the Rotterdam Academy of Visual Arts and Technical Sciences for an advertising poster, in which no first prize was awarded after judging, but De Ru took second and third place.

In 1926 he entered into a partnership with Nico Schrier, who had also worked at Bogtman. Schrier was a witness at De Ru's wedding a year later to Elisabeth Jacoba de Graaff. In their studio De Vonk (from 1935 Atelier Schrier en De Ru) stained glass windows, wall paintings and mosaics were produced. In 1937 De Ru made eighteen windows for the Prince Hendrik Foundation in Egmond aan Zee, a retirement home for former sailors, which has been a national monument since 2001. In 1946 the collaboration was dissolved and De Ru and Schrier each went their own way. De Ru subsequently had his windows made by Sabelis & Kerrebijn in Haarlem and the Stichtse Glashandel in Utrecht, always with his personal cooperation. He preferred to use colored antique glass, which he painted loosely with grisaille and contour paint. De Ru made figurative, naturalistic representations. From the fifties the figures became more abstract and the lines tighter. He liked to create allegorical scenes, with themes borrowed from the Bible and mythology.[3]

In addition to stained glass windows, De Ru also made posters, watercolors, copper plastics, lithographs, mosaics, murals, nudes,[4] political cartoons and portrait drawings. In the 1960s he made a large series of drawings with Biblical scenes for the Docete foundation. He was a member and for some time chairman of Kunst Zij Ons Doel, with which he also exhibited, and chairman of the Dutch Federation of Visual Artists' Associations.

De Ru passed away at the age of 78.