Joep Bertrams Illustrator Joep Bertrams (Roermond, 1946) did the training for teacher and went afterwards to the royal academy for beeldende arts in The Hague. Even if during its study he will work for illustrated magazines. He gave lesson to a number of years to a middle school in breda, later in head village. Beside its job in the education and are work as a illustrator is he active as a setting designer for several youth theatre groups. As from 1989 he makes also political drawings. Bertrams made illustrations at among other things the work of Karel Eykman, veronica Hazelhoff, Henri van Daele and at the poems of wheel Kusters. For its illustrations he received brush in 1986, and in 1989, Zilveren: first was for its drawings in salamanders catch of wheel Kusters; the Second for the book Johan Edelgans written by himself. Much appreciation is carried out for humour in its fantasievolle, sometimes surrealistic drawings, mostly in black blank.