Jan Roëde was born in 1914 in Groningen. Roede played a mayor part in the postwar painting art in The Hague, like Jaap Nanninga, also from Groningen, and Willem Hussem and Piet Ouborg, both from The Hague. He belongs to the Nieuwe Haagse School, which developed in 1950 in The Hague, as a counterpart to CoBrA from Amsterdam…