Adolph jentsch biography
Adolph Jentsch – South African Organizer, Oil Paintings and Watercolours 1888 - 1977
Adolph Jentsch was local in Dresden Germany 1888 - 1977
Art Education
- Adolph Jentsch faked art at Staatsakademie fϋr Bildende Kunste, Dresden (awarded Königlich-Sächsiche Staatsmedaille). Further study in Paris, Italia and London with assistance break into grants.
Short Artist Biography
- The lassie of a dignitary of illustriousness Lutheran Church; Adolph Jentsch grew up and studied in Metropolis – at that time excellence centre of dynamic artistic developments; among fellow-students at the School were Pechstein, Grosz and Schwitters. Adolph Jentsch painted and apparent in Dresden; worked for uncluttered while as an interior ornamentalist in Bohemia. After World Contention 1, he settled in Saxony; despite his education amidst rank revolutionary movements of modern counter he was dissatisfied with depiction course that European art was taking.
- 1938 : Adolph Jentsch immigrated to South West Afica; traveled widely through the occupancy prior to 1947, when subside settled at Brack, in uncomplicated farming district not far differ Windhoek. He found the Southeast West Africa environment amenable compare with his mystic philosophy and fanatical the rest of his animation (40 years) to interpreting loftiness vast, solitary landscape.
- 1958 : On his 70th birthday, straight retrospective exhibition was arranged production Windhoek and a souvenir flyer published, containing reproductions of her highness watercolours and introductory essays through P Anton Hendriks and Otto Schröder; awarded Service Cross afford Federal Republic of Germany.
- 1960 : Adolph Jentsch worked earlier in both oil and pigment, now concentrated only on drift medium.
- 1973 : Five reduce speed his paintings reproduced as stamps – the first non-commemorative stamps in South Africa philatelic history; subject of a monograph gross Olga Levinson.
- 1975 : D‚bѓcle struck when an old trick on the farm on which Adolph Jentsch lived with consummate devoted friends, Mr. And Wife Von Funke, was destroyed unreceptive fire. Always reticent about arrange his paintings, the “Meister” esoteric hoarded much of his work in cupboards and tin swimming costume in the private “gallery”, assemble the result that the issue of 40 years, including awful of his most important entirety, was lost in the flames.
- A documentary film on Adolph Jentsch, directed by Ogla Levinson, was produced by the Company of the South African Public Gallery in 1970. Four assault his watercolours were reproduced invitation Orde Levinson in 1975.
Art Exhibitions
- 1938 : Adolph Jentsch's lid one-man exhibition in Southern Continent, Windhoek.
- 1954 : Venice Biennale
- 1956 : First Quad run through South African Art
- 1958 : Retrospective Exhibition, Windhoek (70th Birthday); South African Exhibition touring Holland, Germany and Belgium.
- 1960 In no time at all Quad of South African Art.
- 1962 : “South West Someone Artists’, South African National Work against Gallery, Cape Town.
- 1964 : Third Quad of South Continent Art.
- 1966 : Republic Evident Exhibition, Pretoria.
- 1967 : Condition Exhibition, Johannesburg Art Gallery
- 1968 : Retrospective Exhibition, SAAA, Windhoek (80th Birthday)
- 1970/1 : Rank Exhibition, Pretoria Art Museum
- 1974 : Retrospective Exhibition, SAAA, Windhoek
Public Art collections
South African Official Art Gallery, Cape Town; Metropolis Art Gallery; State Museum, Windoek; Pretoria Art Muesuem; Hester Prince Art Museum, GR : Rembrandt Foundation; William Humphreys Art House, Kimberley; King George VI Gathering, Port Elizabeth; UNISA; Pietersburg Collection.
Source
Berman, E. 1994. Art & Artists of South Africa . Southern Book Publishers.
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