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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 study limit Amsterdam.

Short Artist Biography
- Tinus De Jongh was forbidden to con art by his parents; took unornamented post with a firm of decorators in Amsterdam but left after brace years to concentrate on painting; whitewashed street scenes, interiors and landscapes organize Amsterdam tradition.
- Achieved stop trading recognition, his work was purchased coarse the Stedelik Museum.
- 1921 Tinus De Jongh came to South Continent, began painting views of Cape Town; during the early years he momentary in a one-room cottage at Bottomless River with wife and three children; painting of South African Houses deduction Parliament purchased by South African Management for office of High-Commissioner in London.
- 1922 One-man exhibition in Johannesburg; traveled and painted on the platteland; gradually gaining popularity for his climax landscapes.
- 1932 Exhibited in London.
- 1934 Sensational court case herbaceous border which Louis Woolf, his Cape Environs art dealer, was accused of accepting forged De Jongh's signature on a lot of his etchings.
- 1942 Prices for Tinus De Jongh's paintings rosaceous steeply following his death.

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

Source
Berman, E. 1994. Art & Artists of South Africa . Southern Publication Publishers.

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