Tinus de Jongh (1885-1942)
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Marinus Johannes ( Tinus ) de Jongh werd in 1885 in Amsterdam geboren. Hij overleed in 1942 in Bloemfontein. Hij woonde en werkte in Amsterdam en hij vertrok in 1921 vanuit Watergraafsmeer naar Zuid Afrika. Daar vestigde hij zich in eerste instantie in Kaapstad.
Tinus de Jongh vormde zich zelf. Hij tekende, etste en schilderde landschappen en dorpsgezichten. In Nederland kreeg hij erkenning nadat het Stedelijk museum in Amsterdam een werk van hem aankocht.
Tinus
de Jongh (Marthinils Johannes de Jongh) was one of South Africa’s
most popular painters. Self-taught, he began his career as a decorator in
Holland, and then pursued painting
full-time. He achieved some note when the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam
purchased one of his early pictures. He arrived in South Africa in 1921,
practicing a sober style within the Dutch tradition, typified there by Stid Life
with Birds and Hare. The light and landscape of South Africa soon caused him to
abandon his muted palette in favour of more saturated colours. His formulaic
approach to painting Cape landscapes with gabled farmhouses created such a
demand that he abandoned his considered brushwork in favour of a broader palette
knife technique. His etchings sold in the hundreds through his dealer Louis
Woolf.
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