Dulieu, Jean - Portrait in pencil of Josef Anton Bruckner -
In the Second World War, Jan van Oort () created the Paulus the woodgnome cartoon character; from his adventures were published in newspaper Het Vrije Volk. Van Oort called himself Jean Dulieu (French translation of Jan van Oort). Eventually, around daily strips would be made between and . In addition to these newspapers publications, Paulus also appeared in a large number of magazines and children's books, in colour and in many countries. Jean Dulieu received many awards for his work and is considered among the three foremost Dutch illustrators of his time, together with Marten Toonder and Hans G. Kresse. After he had stopped drawing Paulus the woodgnome, Dulieu made beautiful personal work, including a series of incredibly finely detailed portraits of famous people. During the major Dulieu retrospective at the DutchComics Museum in Groningen these portraits were displayed for the first time. This lot contains one of the portraits Jean Dulieu made in the s. It is a portrait of Josef Anton Bruckner (), a famous Austrian composer. Read More