01 Marine Art, Marius de JONGERE, With Footnotes, #305

Marius de JONGERE, (1912 - 1977)

The Vessel Ponape at the Port of Rotterdam

Etching

40 x 27 cm.

Private collection

Ponape was a four-masted steel–hulled barque which was built in 1903 in Italy as Regina Elena for an Italian owner. In 1911 she was sold to Germany and renamed Ponape. In 1914 she was arrested by HMS Majestic and confiscated as a war prize by the Admiralty. She was renamed Bellhouse In 1915 she was sold to Norwegian owners. In 1925, she was sold to Finland and again named Ponape serving until she was scrapped in 1936.  More on Ponape

Marinus Johannes Drulman, ( Amsterdam , July 4, 1912 - Rotterdam , June 30, 1977 ), known by the pseudonym Marius de Jongere, was a Dutch watercolorist , etcher , draftsman , graphic artist and painter . He is particularly known as a painter of the Rotterdam ports.

Drulman worked and lived mainly in Rotterdam and is known by his harbor views as a typical Rotterdam painter. However, he originally came from Amsterdam.

Drulman was taught at the Academy of Visual Arts in Rotterdam. As an artist he used the pseudonym Marius the Younger; this was a reference to his stepfather, the painter and etcher Marius Janssen . Only during the German occupation did he sign his work with the name Drulman, because artists at that time were not allowed to work under a pseudonym. 

His style was naturalistic - impressionistic . His most productive period in the fifties and sixties coincided with the rise of the Rotterdam ports . Drulman became famous for harbor views . In addition to ports and ships, he also painted portraits and landscapes , often of the polder landscape around his studio in Hillegersberg . 

He was a member of Kunstenaarsssociëteit Rotterdam.  He made trips to Belgium, Germany, France and Switzerland.

The Kamper museum , among others, owns work by Drulman. According to a number of sources, the American vice-president Lyndon B.Johnson bought five landscapes during a visit to the Netherlands in the 1960s in the studio of Drulman. More on Marinus Johannes Drulman

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