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Beautiful etching by Jan Montyn from 1988. Title: unknown. Number: 23/30. Dimensions top: H65 x W50cm. Dimensions of the presentation: H49 x W40cm. The work is signed and dated by the artist at the bottom right. The authenticity of the work offered is fully guaranteed. A certificate of authenticity can be emailed upon request.
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.
Jan Montyn (actually: Montijn) (Oudewater, November 13, 1924 – Amsterdam, August 10, 2015) was a Dutch painter, draftsman, graphic artist and poet. His work can be found in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, among others. Montyn was born in 1924 into a strict Reformed family. His father was a house painter, deacon and voted SGP.
During the Second World War, Montyn became a member of the National Socialist National Youth Storm. With that he went to training camp in Austria. After this he signed up with the Kriegsmarine, where he experienced a shipwreck that he barely survived. After this disaster, he was sent to the Eastern Front to serve in the trench warfare in Courland.
After the Liberation he enlisted in the Foreign Legion. He was trained in Algeria as a paratrooper to be deployed against Japan. After a short time he decided to escape. Back in the Netherlands he was no longer accepted as a collaborator in his former environment and in 1950 he became a volunteer with a Dutch army group in the Korean War.
Back in the Netherlands, his past in German military service was thus considered to be compensated, but he nevertheless fell into a psychological crisis. The extensive writing down of what he experienced brought him back on his feet. Since then he has been involved in painting and became internationally known for it. He passed away in the summer of 2015 at the age of 90.