Tinus de Jongh
Martinus Johannes "Tinus" de Jongh (31 January 1885 in Amsterdam – 17 July 1942 in Bloemfontein) was one of South Africa's most popular painters.
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Tinus de Jongh
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- Name
- Tinus de Jongh
- Birth Name
- Martinus Johannes "Tinus" de Jongh
- Born
- 31 January 1885
- Birthplace
- Amsterdam
- Died
- 17 July 1942
- Place of death
- Bloemfontein
- Occupation
- Painter
- Nationality
- Kingdom of the Netherlands
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Martinus Johannes "Tinus" de Jongh (31 January 1885 in Amsterdam – 17 July 1942 in Bloemfontein) was one of South Africa's most popular painters.
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Tinus de Jongh (1885–1942) was a painter, of Dutch nationality. The painter was born in Amsterdam and died in Bloemfontein. Works are held at Amsterdam Museum and Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar.
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• Name — Tinus de Jongh • Birth Name — Martinus Johannes "Tinus" de Jongh • Born — 31 January 1885 • Birthplace — Amsterdam • Died — 17 July 1942 • Place of death — Bloemfontein • Occupation — Painter
Career
Career
Self-taught, he began his career as a decorator in the Netherlands, 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 Still 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.
Death
Death
He died on 17 July 1942 from lung cancer.
Personal life
Personal life
Tinus married Johanna Maria Verhoef in April 1911. They had three children: Wilhelmina, Petronella and Gabriel de Jongh, who became a landscape artist in South Africa.
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1885
Tinus de Jongh was born in 1885 at Amsterdam.
1942
Tinus de Jongh died in 1942 at Bloemfontein.
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