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- Jan Toorop made the drawing (and later the lithograph) of the miner during a visit to South Limburg in the first week of June 1915. Together with the chaplain of social works in the mining region, HA Poels, pastor Jan Röselaers of Hoensbroek and state mine director JCF Bunge, he visited the underground company of Staatsmijn Wilhelmina.
A certain Jan Quadackers, a 42-year-old miner from Hoensbroek, was the model for Toorop's crayon or chalk drawing. It is said that Quadackers did not pose in the underground mine, but in the cellar of the rectory in Hoensbroek. Johannes Theodorus (Jan) Toorop, also: Jean Theodor Toorop, (Poerworedjo (Dutch East Indies), December 20, 1858 – The Hague, March 3, 1928) was one of the most important Dutch visual artists from the period 1880-1910. Initially he painted in an impressionist style, but via pointillism he developed into a symbolist painter. He was also active as a portrait artist and designed ceramics, advertising posters and book covers. Dutch Art Nouveau is often associated with his work. In the last twenty years of his life he was strongly inspired by Roman Catholicism.
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