Eppo Doeve, Carnival, Gouache And Pencil, Signed

Eppo Doeve (1907-1981) Carnival
Gouache and Pencil signed with frame 65 x 50 cm. Normal postal rates apply for shipping.

Joseph Ferdinand ("Eppo") Doeve (Bandoeng 1907 – Amsterdam 1981) became known primarily as a draftsman, graphic artist, and designer of book bindings. During his elementary school years (1914-1920) and then at the HBS (High School) (1920-1926), he practiced not only drawing, but also modeling, woodcarving, sculpture, and playing numerous musical instruments. At the age of twenty, he came to Wageningen to study at the University of Agricultural Sciences. During his studies, he was a member of the Wageningen Student Corps and a trumpeter in the oldest student jazz band in the world, the Ceresband. He produced, among other things, the Almanac. After two years of study, he chose an artistic career. In 1929, he received his first commission from the Amsterdam advertising agency De la Mar for a Philips film. His advertising work, and in particular his drawings in the advertising magazine Meer Baet, brought him initial notoriety. He then became a political cartoonist for De Groene Amsterdammer and the Haagsche Post. When the Second World War broke out, his work as a cartoonist-illustrator was interrupted. Doeve retired to Blaricum and devoted more time to painting. He was inspired in particular by Carel Willink, Raoul Hynckes, and Pyke Koch, and under their influence, developed a magic-realist and surrealist pictorial style. After the Liberation of the Netherlands and until his death, he worked for Elseviers Weekblad, creating political caricatures and illustrations. In 1948, he designed the first poster for the newly founded Holland Festival. Doeve also illustrated advertising campaigns for, among others, Heineken and, once again, Philips. He also created backgrounds and designed many of the covers for the first Prisma Pockets. In the 1950s, he was responsible for the design of Dutch banknotes: the Erflaters I series, depicting prominent figures from the Dutch past. Eppo was a member of the art society Arti et Amicitiae in Amsterdam. Since April 1973, he had been a Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau. Doeve specialist Jop Euwijk (Spijkenisse, 1984) wrote a richly documented illustrated volume on his work. Even after his death, several solo exhibitions were dedicated to him, including at the Press Museum and Arti (both in 2013), and in Wageningen in 2019.