A young Dutch boy joins the German navy for adventure on the cusp of World War Two, but finds himself in over his head.
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Jan Montyn (13 November 1924 - 10 August 2015) was a Dutch artist who specialized in etching. He was best known for his paintings of wars to which he had been an eyewitness.
Montyn was born in a conservative Calvinistic family and was raised in Oudewater. In the Second World War he joined the German navy and fought on the eastern front. After the war he lived in France and in the Netherlands. His work is displayed in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam.
Montyn died on 10 August 2015 in Amsterdam, aged 90.
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Hardcover. Etat : Near fine. Etat de la jaquette : very good. 1st Edition. 252 pages, octavo. Translated from the Dutch by Adrienne Dixon. Book is in near Fine condition; dust jacket Very Good. 110903A ISBN: 0285626213. N° de réf. du vendeur 10380
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Hardback. Etat : Near Fine. 1st UK Edition. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine condition in a Near Fine Dustjacket - DJ now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 251 pages. At the age of eighteen Jan Montyn was learning how to cross a ravine hanging from a rope; at nineteen he was serving in the Baltic on a German minesweeper; by the time he was twenty he was enduring the mud, snow and slaughter on the Eastern front. As an artist these events affected him deeply and left him a pacifist. Montyn was a notable Dutch etcher. N° de réf. du vendeur 328793
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