Adolph Jentsch

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Adolph Stephan Friedrich Jentsch (born December 29, 1888 in Dresden , † April 18, 1977 in Windhoek , South West Africa ) was a Namibian landscape painter of German descent ( Deutschnamibier ).

life and work

Jentsch studied from 1903 to 1905 at the Dresden School of Applied Arts and from 1905 to 1914 at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts with Robert Sterl , Johannes Raphael Wehle , Richard Müller and Oskar Zwintscher . He visited France , Italy , the United Kingdom and the Netherlands . In order to avoid the looming Second World War , Jentsch moved to Namibia in 1938, where he stayed until his death in 1977. Works by him and others are shown. A. in South Africa in the Johannesburg Art Gallery in Johannesburg , the South African National Gallery in Cape Town and in the Pretoria Art Gallery in Pretoria .

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Namibian postage stamp from 1973

Before 1925 he painted portraits, after his arrival in Namibia he devoted himself to the Namibian landscape. He traveled extensively in Namibia and finally settled near Dordabis - about 60 km from Windhoek. Jentsch painted landscapes in watercolor and oil . He was interested in oriental philosophy and was influenced by Chinese art - especially Daoism . He was also interested in yoga . Namibian postage stamps from 1973 show five of his mountain landscapes. Jentsch lived with the von Funckes on the farm. In 1975 an old barn was destroyed in a fire and important works of his were lost.

Awards

  • 1913: Royal Saxon State Medal for Art and Science
  • 1958: He was the first Namibian citizen to receive the Federal Cross of Merit
  • 1962: Medal of Honor for Painting, SA Akademie vir Kuns en Wetenskap

literature

  • Peter Burghard Strack : Adolph Jentsch. The pictures from the cigar box. 2003
  • Mark A. Meaker: Adolph Jentsch - Prayers in Paint . In: Gallery Magazine , Autumn 1984
  • Olga Levinson: Adolph Jentsch. 1973
  • Olga Levinson: Jentsch . South West Africa Annual, 1970
  • Esme Berman: Art and artists of South Africa . Cape Town, 1970
  • FL Alexander: Art in South Africa . Cape Town, 1962
  • Anton Hendriks: Adolph Jentsch . In: Fontein , Vol. 1, No. 1, 1960
  • Adolph Jentsch, SWA .: An appreciation with reproductions of watercolors painted by Jentsch in the surroundings of Brack. Essays by Otto Schöder and P. Anton Hendriks, Swakopmund, 1958 (on his seventieth anniversary)
  • Otto Schröder: Adolph Jentsch . In: Lantern, Vol.3, No.4, April – June, 1954
  • Adolph Jentsch . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 77, de Gruyter, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-023182-3 , p. 535.
  • Catrin Ritter: Jentsch, Adolph . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 18 : Hubatsch – Ingouf . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1925, p. 520 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b CV, Absolut Art Gallery, Stellenbosch ( South Africa )
  2. ↑ a b c d Sas Kloppers: Directory of Namibian Artists Dream Africa Productions and Publishing, 2012, pp. 76-77. , ISBN 978-0-620-51746-1 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e Adolph Jentsch. Namibiana book depot. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
  4. ↑ a b c ArcyArt, South African Art - original source for this résumé: Berman, 1994 edition, Art & Artists of South Africa , Southern Book Publishers.
  5. ^ A b CV, Johannes Borman Fine Art, Cape Town ( South Africa ) - based on four other sources
  6. ↑ Photos of the stamps from Jentsch (www.mountainstamp.com) ( Memento from February 15, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ^ Article in Gallery Magazine with photos, autumn 1984, Adolph Jentsch - Prayers in Paint by Mark A. Meaker
personal data
SURNAME Jentsch, Adolph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jentsch, Adolph Stephan Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Namibian landscape painter of German descent
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH April 18, 1977
Place of death Windhoek