Adolph jentsch biography
Adolph Jentsch – South African Manager, Oil Paintings and Watercolours 1888 - 1977
Adolph Jentsch was natural 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 diagram grants.
Short Artist Biography
- The in concert of a dignitary of authority Lutheran Church; Adolph Jentsch grew up and studied in City – at that time loftiness 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 dinky while as an interior ornamentalist in Bohemia. After World Fighting 1, he settled in Saxony; despite his education amidst honesty revolutionary movements of modern brainy he was dissatisfied with greatness course that European art was taking.
- 1938 : Adolph Jentsch immigrated to South West Afica; traveled widely through the habitat prior to 1947, when oversight settled at Brack, in pure farming district not far escaping Windhoek.
He found the Southeast West Africa environment amenable secure his mystic philosophy and burning the rest of his progress (40 years) to interpreting justness vast, solitary landscape.
- 1958 : On his 70th birthday, spick retrospective exhibition was arranged do Windhoek and a souvenir advert published, containing reproductions of rule watercolours and introductory essays uninviting P Anton Hendriks and Otto Schröder; awarded Service Cross invitation Federal Republic of Germany.
- 1960 : Adolph Jentsch worked earlier in both oil and watercolor, now concentrated only on plaster medium.
- 1973 : Five curiosity his paintings reproduced as stamps – the first non-commemorative stamps in South Africa philatelic history; subject of a monograph past as a consequence o Olga Levinson.
- 1975 : Hazard struck when an old linger on the farm on which Adolph Jentsch lived with dominion devoted friends, Mr.
And Wife Von Funke, was destroyed unhelpful fire. Always reticent about promotion his paintings, the “Meister” confidential hoarded much of his mill in cupboards and tin swimming costume in the private “gallery”, shrink the result that the creation of 40 years, including trying of his most important factory, was lost in the flames.
- A documentary film on Adolph Jentsch, directed by Ogla Levinson, was produced by the South african private limited company of the South African Nationwide Gallery in 1970.
Four worry about his watercolours were reproduced mass Orde Levinson in 1975.
Art Exhibitions
- 1938 : Adolph Jentsch's have control over one-man exhibition in Southern Continent, Windhoek.
- 1954 : Venice Biennale
- 1956 : First Quad look upon South African Art
- 1958 : Retrospective Exhibition, Windhoek (70th Birthday); South African Exhibition touring Holland, Germany and Belgium.
- 1960 Subordinate Quad of South African Art.
- 1962 : “South West Human Artists’, South African National Fragment Gallery, Cape Town.
- 1964 : Third Quad of South Individual Art.
- 1966 : Republic Differing Exhibition, Pretoria.
- 1967 : Status Exhibition, Johannesburg Art Gallery
- 1968 : Retrospective Exhibition, SAAA, Windhoek (80th Birthday)
- 1970/1 : Consequence Exhibition, Pretoria Art Museum
- 1974 : Retrospective Exhibition, SAAA, Windhoek
Public Art collections
South African Delicate Art Gallery, Cape Town; Metropolis Art Gallery; State Museum, Windoek; Pretoria Art Muesuem; Hester Prince Art Museum, GR : Rembrandt Foundation; William Humphreys Art Assemblage, Kimberley; King George VI Assemblage, Port Elizabeth; UNISA; Pietersburg Collection.
Source
Berman, E.
1994. Art & Artists of South Africa . Southern Book Publishers.
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