Gebroeders van Straaten

Gebroeders van Straaten refers to a collaborative artistic entity known to have been professionally active around the year 1906. Specific biographical details regarding the artists' origins or full careers are not documented; however, their known output is centralized around a specific historical event, suggesting a focus on documentary printmaking or journalistic illustration during their period of activity.

The works attributed to Gebroeders van Straaten are held in significant institutional collections, establishing their historical importance. They are represented in the Rijksmuseum, among other collections. A total of fourteen documented works are held in museums, with the primary subject being the widely distributed print Ramp te Oud-Vossemeer op 13 maart 1906. The existence of multiple documented copies of this single image indicates that Gebroeders van Straaten prints were highly relevant or commercially successful at the time of their creation.

Today, the work of Gebroeders van Straaten is valued both for its historical documentation and as an example of early 20th-century Dutch print culture. As these historical documents age, many works fall into the public domain, allowing institutions to provide access to high-quality prints and archival reproductions for scholarly use.