Mankes and Weber Route, Eerbeek

Jan Mankes 1889 - 1920

A painter of tranquil works in Eerbeek

Jan Mankes is a painter, already appointed during life. from 1916 to 1920 Jan Mankes lived in Eerbeek. He sought out the wooded area and the clean air because he suffered from tuberculosis. Jan Mankes is known as a painter of tranquil paintings. the tranquility in his work is evoked by balanced compositions and subdued use of color, and a barely visible brushstroke. a large number of works by Jan Mankes have been housed in Museum MORE in Gorssel since 2015.

The locations related to Jan Mankes are numbered on the image with the route:

1. Derickxkamp 2: Image inspired by Young white goat by Jan Mankes. In 1992 artist Marijke Ladage was commissioned by the municipality of Brummen to make a sculpture based on the painting Young white goat (1914) by Jan Mankes. On the pedestal is a passage from a poem about Jan Mankes by Willem de Merode.

2 . Dr. Gunningstraat 13:

House of father Jan, mother Annie and son Beint Mankes between 1916 and 1920.'In the garden you see a spider in its web and you make a woodcut of it. You see a reading woman in the light of the lamp and you think of a painting. For the variation you walk behind a plow drawing near the house ...\\\' . Letter quote from Jan Mankes, September 1916. Jan Mankes had his studio in the conservatory. The painter found a lot of 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 the Molenstraat, an orchard. Jan Mankes was able to live on the proceeds from his paintings and prints.

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

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

5. Apeldoorns Canal: The Apeldoorns Canal was an important waterway between the IJsselmeer near Hattem and the IJssel near Dieren. Ships sailed in favorable winds, 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 bike path. Jan Mankes made studies of horses. For this he gave the drivers of the barges cigars in exchange for being allowed to draw the horses while they were waiting for the peat to be unloaded and the paper mill's material loaded.

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

7. Cemetery Eerbeek: Jan Mankes and Annie Mankes-Zernike, Weber, according to Max Weber and Anna Weber-van Bosse and Willem de Merode 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 also have a Jan Mankesstraat. In Eerbeek there are workers' houses built in 1950 for the workers of the paper factories. Now we think that small houses. The ground floor covers 5.5 x 6.5 meters, a total of 36m2. Eerbeek is still the center of the European paper industry and many inhabitants work in this innovative sector.

9. Eerbeekse Beek: In the 17th century, several streams were created from the Veluwe. The flowing water from the stream powered water mills, watered the canals and fountains at castles and country estates and later filled the Apeldoorn Canal. Its origin is a spreng, a hole dug in a slope of a hill with sufficient water pressure. With the streams and sprengen, Eerbeek and the surrounding area have a unique water system in Europe.

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

Max Weber 1852 - 1937

Zoology World Expeditions from Eerbeek

Max Weber became in 1883 as extraordinary professor at the University of Amsterdam in comparative anatomy 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 species of fish. Before that he already made expeditions to Northern Norway, Tromso, for researching whales.

The locations associated with Max Weber are numbered on the route image:

11. Coldenhovenseweg 13: Montessori school, founded in 1921, now Eerbeek Library.'Help me to do it myself\\\' is the core of Montessori education. The starting point is that a child has a natural urge to develop himself. A Montessori teacher recognizes the learning moment of the child and then offers learning material. As in Amsterdam, Anna Weber-van Bosse showed great social involvement in Eerbeek. She was a board member of the Red Cross and helped to set up 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 residents. 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 mansion was an exotic place 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 place on the estate. Tropical plants were given a place in the greenhouse. The cassowary, a large ostrich-like flightless bird, made its daily rounds in the garden and lived together with the monkey and the civet.

13 . Barn at Korenmolen:

Professor Weber was one of the founders of the Eerbeek honey and bee market. The beekeepers' association is still thriving today and the bee is widely honored for its role in pollinating crops. The Eerbeek Honey and Bee Market takes place every year on the fourth Saturday in September. Here, masters inspect the new harvest of heather honey. Come and see.

14 . Lageweg 42:

Professor's residence villa't Hungeling ca. 1900. This villa was built by the biologist Prof. Sluyter, a friend of Professor Weber. Striking about the white plastered house are the thatched roof and the wide overhangs.

1 5. Hogeweg 14:

Professors' residence villa Zesschepelhoek, before 1923. A professor of biology, Professor Mol, also lived in this villa at the beginning of the 20th century.

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