Jan Stroosma - "Painter of Ameland" sepia/ink drawing "sailing boats" with studio stamp - Sold

• 1960s sepia/ink drawing on paper "sailing boats" made by Frisian artist and graphic artist Jan Stroosma (1928-1983). The drawing is in good condition, on the back provided with his studio stamp.

Jan Stroosma (Leeuwarden, November 16, 1928 - ibid., 1983) was a Frisian graphic artist, sculptor, photographer and painter.
To live
Jan Stroosma lived and worked in his hometown until 1956, where he moved into his first studio at Zuidvliet 261 in the early 1950s. From 1957 to 1961 he lived in Amsterdam where he studied at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten. There he was taught by Gé Röling and Jan Wiegers, among others. He then lived and worked in Leeuwarden, where he moved into a studio at Kruisstraat 25 in 1962, which he used until his sudden death in 1983.
Work
To support himself, Stroosma taught at the art academies Academie Vredeman de Vries in Leeuwarden, at the AKI in Enschede and later also at Academie Minerva in Groningen. With this he bought, as he himself said, a part of his freedom.
In his work, Stoorsma focused mainly on abstractions, landscapes and cityscapes. As a graphic artist, he also designed stamps, for example, he contributed to the design of the summer stamps of 1964.
In 1993 a special exhibition was held in Leeuwarden, with the theme Jan Stroosma as a painter according to the reviewer of the Leeuwarder Courant painting was not Stroosma's first priority. The work remains somewhat heavy compared to his graphic work which has more tension, yet the paintings also show an interesting side of Stroosma.
In the years before his sudden death, Stroosma occupied himself with the perspective studies of Vredeman de Vries (1527-1607), as these had never been executed in reality before. Stroosma made various models (maquettes) to scale that were exhibited posthumously at Galerie van Hulsen.