Johan (Johannus) Briedé was a painter, draughtsman, graphic designer, lithographer, illustrator and typographer. He was a student of the painter Willem Adriaan van Konijnenburg, the artist and designer Chris Lebeau and the graphic designers and bookbinders Geraldo Abraham Brender à Brandis and Ludwig Willem Reymert Wenckebach.

From 1910 onwards Briedé established a career as a freelance artist for various magazine and book publishers, as well for as the architect H. P. Berlage. As a young artist he worked throughout the Netherlands; in Amsterdam, Haarlem, The Hague, Leiden, Rijswijk, Rotterdam and Scheveningen. He lectured at the School of Visual Arts in Roermond between 1912 and 1913, and later taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in...