Herman Berserik - Beautiful "brush" etching | 1960 | girl with doll | very small edition (15) pencil - Sold

• Berserik, Herman (1921-2002). (Portrait of a girl with her doll). Very nice "brushed" Etching and aquatint in the sheet sizes 30.3x41.8 cm. Signed in pencil "Berserik 1960" and "5/15". Placed in passe partout - total dimensions 50x65cm. The etching is in very good, sharp condition.

Hermanus Berserik was born in The Hague on 19 June 1921 and also died in The Hague on 21 March 2002.
Berserik spent his youth in the Hague painters' district. In 1944 he graduated early from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and after the war he went on a study trip to Paris where he visited Jan van Heel and Sierk Schröder, among others.
Berserik was a versatile artist/person who made a name for himself as a wood engraver, academy lecturer (The Hague Academy), illustrator, graphic designer, set and wall painter, mosaic maker, draftsman, etcher and lithographer.
In 1946 he became a member of the Hague Art Circle.
He has lived in Rijswijk since 1952, but was nevertheless part of the Hague art world. During his period in The Hague, he was also a teacher at the Royal Academy of Art. Berserik was also the teacher of, among others, Adèle de Beaufort, Ernst Bosch, Erna Giesel, Ton Hoogendoorn, Antoon Roelofs and Barbara Schrier.
He was a member of Pulchri Studio, Federation of Associations of Professional Visual Artists, of De Keerkring, of the Realists, Verve, the Association of Marine Painters and the Hague Art and Etching Circle, of the Association for the Promotion of Graphic Arts.
His paintings include flower and fruit still lifes as well as self-portraits, means of transport, cityscapes and many genre pieces that all exuded a very unique atmosphere. He became known for his facade paintings (on the courtyards at the Hoefkade).
Berserik was married to Mien Voûte (photographer), who in turn was a student of Draijer, Rozendaal and Schrofer.
Berserik won many prizes and received generous subsidies (including the Royal Subsidy for Painting in 1948 and 1949, the Jacob Maris Prize in 1950, 1952 and 1960, the David Roëll Prize in 1951, the Jacob Hartog Prize in 1963 and the Jacob Hartog oeuvre prize in 2000).
His work can be found in many museums (Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Postmuseum and Rijkscollectie). Much of his extensive production (several thousand pieces), especially paintings, drawings, etchings and lithographs, is in private hands.
Berserik is mentioned in Scheen, Saur, Jacobs.