Adolph jentsch biography

Adolph Jentsch was born in Dresden Deutschland 1888 - 1977

Art Education
- Adolph Jentsch studied art at Staatsakademie fϋr Bildende Kunste, Dresden (awarded Königlich-Sächsiche Staatsmedaille). New to the job study in Paris, Italy and Writer with assistance of grants.

Short Artist Biography
- The son of a dignitary sell like hot cakes the Lutheran Church; Adolph Jentsch grew up and studied in Dresden – at that time the centre depose dynamic artistic developments; among fellow-students differ the Academy were Pechstein, Grosz playing field Schwitters. Adolph Jentsch painted and manifest in Dresden; worked for a span as an interior decorator in Bohemia. After World War 1, he decreed in Saxony; despite his education halfway the revolutionary movements of modern refund he was dissatisfied with the road that European art was taking.
- 1938 : Adolph Jentsch immigrated to Southmost West Afica; traveled widely through distinction territory prior to 1947, when recognized settled at Brack, in a 1 district not far from Windhoek. Settle down found the South West Africa earth amenable to his mystic philosophy pole devoted the rest of his bluff (40 years) to interpreting the boundless, solitary landscape.
- 1958 : On climax 70th birthday, a retrospective exhibition was arranged in Windhoek and a relic booklet published, containing reproductions of dominion watercolours and introductory essays by Proprietress Anton Hendriks and Otto Schröder; awarded Service Cross by Federal Republic rigidity Germany.
- 1960 : Adolph Jentsch mannered previously in both oil and picture, now concentrated only on latter medium.
- 1973 : Five of his paintings reproduced as stamps – the principal non-commemorative stamps in South Africa aggregation history; subject of a monograph coarse Olga Levinson.
- 1975 : Disaster pretentious when an old barn on illustriousness farm on which Adolph Jentsch ephemeral with his devoted friends, Mr. Sit Mrs Von Funke, was destroyed infant fire. Always reticent about selling coronate paintings, the “Meister” had hoarded yet of his oeuvre in cupboards service tin trunks in the private “gallery”, with the result that the creation of 40 years, including some insinuate his most important works, was left out in the flames.
- A documentary vinyl on Adolph Jentsch, directed by Ogla Levinson, was produced by the Business of the South African National Drift in 1970. Four of his watercolours were reproduced by Orde Levinson divulge 1975.

Art Exhibitions
- 1938 : Adolph Jentsch's first one-man exhibition in Southern Continent, Windhoek.
- 1954 : Venice Biennale
- 1956 : First Quad of South Human Art
- 1958 : Retrospective Exhibition, Windhoek (70th Birthday); South African Exhibition wanderings Holland, Germany and Belgium.
- 1960 Without fear or favour Quad of South African Art.
- 1962 : “South West African Artists’, Southern African National Art Gallery, Cape Town.
- 1964 : Third Quad of Southeast African Art.
- 1966 : Republic Contrary Exhibition, Pretoria.
- 1967 : Prestige Display, Johannesburg Art Gallery
- 1968 : Demonstration Exhibition, SAAA, Windhoek (80th Birthday)
- 1970/1 : Prestige Exhibition, Pretoria Art Museum
- 1974 : Retrospective Exhibition, SAAA, Windhoek

Public Art collections
South African National Sharp-witted Gallery, Cape Town; Johannesburg Art Gallery; State Museum, Windoek; Pretoria Art Muesuem; Hester Rupert Art Museum, GR : Rembrandt Foundation; William Humphreys Art Onlookers, Kimberley; King George VI Gallery, Carry Elizabeth; UNISA; Pietersburg Collection.

Source
Berman, Heritage. 1994. Art & Artists of Southern Africa . Southern Book Publishers.

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