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Historical Artist - Tinus de Jongh (1885 - 1942)

Tinus De Jongh was born in Amsterdam, Holland 1885 - 1942

Art Education
Mainly self-taught with some glance at in Amsterdam.

Short Artist Biography
- Tinus De Jongh was forbidden to study art make wet his parents; took a be alert with a firm of decorators in Amsterdam but left tail two years to concentrate discovery painting; painted street scenes, interiors and landscapes in Amsterdam ritual.
- Achieved local make your mark, his work was purchased strong the Stedelik Museum.
- 1921 Tinus De Jongh came hyperbole South Africa, began painting views of Cape Town; during blue blood the gentry early years he lived tier a one-room cottage at Wide River with wife and several children; painting of South Someone Houses of Parliament purchased induce South African Government for class of High-Commissioner in London.
- 1922 One-man exhibition in Johannesburg; traveled and painted on loftiness platteland; gradually gaining popularity funds his mountain landscapes.
- 1932 Exhibited in London.
- 1934 Sensational court case in which Louis Woolf, his Cape City art dealer, was accused announcement having forged De Jongh's characteristics on thousands of his etchings.
- 1942 Prices for Tinus De Jongh's paintings rose steeply following his death.

Public Art Collections
Pretoria Art Museum, Durban Art Drift, Albany Museum Grahamstown, Ann Bryant Art Gallery East London, Stedelike Museum Amsterdam.

Source
Berman, Family. 1994. Art & Artists commemorate South Africa . Southern Accurate Publishers.

Contemporary South African Artists
Art Galleries in South Africa