Pair of beautifully framed Jan Holtrop (1917-1995) Netherlands oil on canvas painting. Both paintings are signed on the front and on the back with the J. Holtrop with the title of the piece. "Lente in de Achterhoek" (Spring in the Rear?) and "Herftst, Scheiwal (Hilversums)" (unable to find translation). This is two paintings sold together.Each actual painting size is 19 inches high by 23 inches wide by 2.5 inches deep for each painting.Jan Holtrop (1917-1995) Oosterbeek Oosterbeekse school:The painter Jan Holtrop was born October 5, 1917 in Friesland Lemmer. At five years old the family moved to Hilversum. Holtrop soon apprenticed to the renowned landscape painter Johan FC Hilversum Scherrewitz (1853-1903), who a studio in Hilversum Soestdijkerstraatweg. Scherrewitz's work was strongly influenced by the Hague School. His style and sense of color are again clearly reflected in the work of Holtrop, although often Holtrop worked more with a sunnier, blonder onwikkelde pallet. An art trade on the Brink was the first of Holtrop paintings that sold and his work in 1948 for the first time - very successfully - exhibited in the gallery Gebr Koch Rotterdam. Holtrop had a strong preference for the landscape of the Veluwe and the Gooi Brabant. As regards to his style, he remained close to that of his teacher. In the sixties, he shifted his field for the Oosterbeek area. Holtrop also painted landscapes in Germany and Austria. Holtrops work is often exhibited in The Netherlands and Germany.