Hendrik Johan Melgers

This is an original woodblock print by Dutch artist Hendrik Johan Melgers.  The subject workers protesting was created and printed circa 1935.  This impression is initialed in the lower right of the plate, no apparent pencil signature visible.  This impression came to us in a frame.  With description on the back.  THe image measures 6X4 1/8 inches, the frame measures 13 1/4X10 1/2 inches.  "Melgers was born in Groningen where he lived and worked until 1933. He studied at the Academy Minerva and from 1933 on he was in Amsterdam. He was skilled as a woodcut artist as well as a painter. Melgers is loosely associated with "de Ploeg"