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Jan Mankes 1889 - 1920

A painter of hushed works in Eerbeek

Jan Mankes is a painter, already appointed in his lifetime. from 1916 to 1920, Jan Mankes lived in Eerbeek. He sought the wooded surroundings and clean air because he suffered from tuberculosis. Jan Mankes is known as a painter of tranquil paintings. The tranquillity in his work is evoked by balanced compositions and subdued use of colour, and a barely visible brushstroke.A large number of Jan Mankes' works have been housed at Museum MORE in Gorssel since 2015.

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1. Derickxkamp 2: Image inspired by Young white goat

Jan Mankes 1889 - 1920

A painter of hushed works in Eerbeek

Jan Mankes is a painter, already appointed in his lifetime. from 1916 to 1920, Jan Mankes lived in Eerbeek. He sought the wooded surroundings and clean air because he suffered from tuberculosis. Jan Mankes is known as a painter of tranquil paintings. The tranquillity in his work is evoked by balanced compositions and subdued use of colour, and a barely visible brushstroke.A large number of Jan Mankes' works have been housed at Museum MORE in Gorssel since 2015.

Sites related to Jan Mankes are numbered on the route image:

1. Derickxkamp 2: Sculpture inspired by Jan Mankes' Young White Goat. In 1992, artist Marijke Ladage was commissioned by the municipality of Brummen to create a sculpture inspired by Jan Mankes' painting Young white goat (1914). On the pedestal is a passage from a poem about Jan Mankes by Willem de Mérode.

2. Dr Gunningstraat 13: Residence of father Jan, mother Annie and son Beint Mankes between 1916 and 1920. 'In den garden you see a little spider in its web and you make a wood. You see a lady reading by lamplight and you think of a painting. For variety, you walk behind a plough drawing close to the house ...' . Letter quote Jan Mankes, September 1916. Jan Mankes had his studio in the conservatory.The painter found much inspiration in a small circle around his house. Animals like white mice, a hedgehog, chickens, horses. And views like Huis te Eerbeek, the farm on Molenstraat, an orchard. Jan Mankes could live on the proceeds from his painting and prints while he was alive.

3. Weberbos: From his home, Jan Mankes looked out on the Huis te Eerbeek estate. ''It's a wonderful life outside. Eerbeek is beautiful and amazingly quiet. You should especially come and have a look. I believe I will be able to find what I need for my work here.' Letter quote Jan Mankes, September 1916.

4. Vijver Huis te Eerbeek: Fish, which Jan Mankes had painted were released into the pond of Huis te Eerbeek after the painting was completed.

5. Apeldoorns Kanaal: The Apeldoorns Kanaal was an important waterway between the IJsselmeer near Hattem and the IJssel near Dieren. Ships sailed when the wind was favourable, or were pulled by man or horse along the towpath along the canal. Seen from Eerbeek, the towpath is on the other side. It is now a beautiful cycle path. Jan Mankes made studies of horses.For this, he gave the boatmen of the tow barges cigars, in exchange for being allowed to draw the horses as they waited for the peat to be unloaded and the material from the paper mill to be loaded.

6. Corn mill: Whereas in Holland the mills were powered by wind, the mills on the Veluwe were powered by running water. In 1750, the Veluwe had almost 200 paper mills, because its water flowed and was clean. In the time of Jan Mankes, around 1900, the mill ground corn. The water wheel brought and moves the millstones. The corn mill is still working! Demonstrations are every Saturday from 11am to 5pm from April to October. Jan Mankes painted and drew the miller's white horse.

7. Eerbeek cemetery: Jan Mankes and Annie Mankes-Zernike, Weber, so Max Weber and Anna Weber-van Bosse and Willem de Mérode are buried here. The Mankes grave was designed with special letters by friend Chris Lebeau.

8. Jan Mankesstraat: Amsterdam, The Hague, Nunspeet and, of course, Eerbeek have a Jan Mankesstraat. In Eerbeek there are workers' houses built in 1950 for the workers of the paper mills. Now we think these are small houses. The ground floor covers 5.5 x 6.5 metres, a total of 36m2. Eerbeek is still the centre of the European paper industry and many residents have jobs in this innovative sector.

9. Eerbeekse Beek: In the 17th century, several brooks were created from the Veluwe. The flowing water from the stream powered watermills, watered the moats and fountains at castles and country estates and later filled the Apeldoorns Kanaal. Its origin is a spreng, a hole dug in a hillside with sufficient water pressure. With the brooks and springs, Eerbeek and the surrounding area have a unique water system in Europe.

10. Molenstraat 2: The farm is featured in a drawing and painting of a snowy landscape.

Max Weber 1852 - 1937

World expeditions zoology from Eerbeek

Max Weber was appointed extraordinary professor at the University of Amsterdam in 1883 in comparative dissection and zootomy, anatomy of animals. During his famous Siboga expedition in the Indian Waters, he collected a lot of research material for dozens of biologists. under his authority, they discovered 131 new fish species. Before then, he made expeditions to northern Norway, Tromsø, to investigate whales.

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11. Coldenhovenseweg 13: Montessori school, founded in 1921, now Eerbeek Library. 'Help me do it myself' is at the heart of Montessori education. The starting point is that a child has a natural urge to develop itself. A Montessori teacher recognises the child's learning moment and then offers learning materials. As in Amsterdam, Anna Weber-van Bosse showed great social commitment in Eerbeek. She was a board member of the Red Cross and she helped found a Montessori school in Eerbeek. Professionally, she maintained international contacts with all the important botanists of her time. And as a woman, she supervised the housekeeping and management of the estate.

12. Huis te Eerbeek: In 1895, Prof Dr Max Weber and his wife Dr Anna Weber-van Bosse bought the estate Huis te Eerbeek. This gave Eerbeek one of the most important zoologists and a famous algologist as inhabitants. Scientists from all over the world visited the estate. Several professors decided to be close to Max Weber and, like the Webers, moved to Eerbeek. The manor was an exotic retreat by the Webers. Research material from all over the world was examined in the laboratory in the big house. Max Weber also took trees and exotic plants and gave them a new home on the estate. Tropical plants were given a place in the greenhouse. The cassowary, a large ostrich-like ratite, made its daily rounds through the garden and lived together with the monkey and the civet cat.

13. Barn at Corn Mill: Professor Weber was one of the founders of Eerbeek's honey and bee market. The beekeepers' association still flourishes today and the bee is widely honoured for its function in pollinating crops. The Eerbeek Honey and Bee Market takes place every year on the fourth Saturday in September. Here, masters judge the new crop of heather honey. Come and see.

14. Lageweg 42: Professors' residence villa 't Hungeling ca. 1900. This villa was built by the biologist Professor Sluyter, a friend of Professor Weber. A striking feature of the white plaster house is its thatched roof and wide overhangs.

15. Hogeweg 14: Professors' residence villa Zesschepelhoek, before 1923. A professor of biology, Professor Mol, also lived in this villa in the early 20th century.

Jan Mankes and Max Weber knew each other well. Thus, Weber bought prints from Mankes. And so Mankes started working on a portrait of Weber, which he unfortunately did not finish.

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