Jacqueline de Jong
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Jacqueline de Jong (* 1939 in Hengelo , Netherlands ) is a Dutch painter, sculptor and graphic artist.
She was the daughter of a Jewish family. Due to the German invasion in World War II , the family had to hide from the Nazis. Jacqueline de Jong and her mother tried to escape to Switzerland accompanied by the Dutch painter Max van Dam, but were picked up by the French police at the border, they were supposed to be deported and were liberated by the Resistance just in time .
In 1957 she went to Paris, initially working at Dior , studying French and attending an acting school. In 1958 she went to London, where she studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama . After returning to Amsterdam, she worked at the Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum until 1961 . In Paris and London she came into contact with the painter Asger Jorn , whose companion she became after a few years. Through Jorn and others she got in contact with the Situationists and in 1960 she joined this group as a member, she took part in the conferences and worked on the central committee. After Constant Nieuwenhuys and his group were expelled, she was entrusted with the Dutch section of the Situationists. However, they did not accept how the German group known as the Spur was treated and withdrew. As the rift between the Debordists and the Second Situationist International widened, she refused to join any of the factions and instead took the position that one should act as a Situationist. From 1962 to 1968 she edited the Situationist Times , on which Gaston Bachelard , Roberto Matta , Wifredo Lam and Jacques Prévert also worked. During the May riots in 1968, she printed posters and distributed them in Paris. In addition to her work for the SI, de Jong is engaged in figurative painting and action painting .
In 1970 she left Paris and returned to Amsterdam. She married the gallery owner Hans Brinkman and organized exhibitions and fairs. After her divorce from Brinkman in 1989, she lived with the lawyer Thomas Weyland, who u. a. served on the editorial board of the International Journal of Cultural Property (de Gruyter Berlin-New York), and whom she married in Areopoli in 1995 . Both gave numerous lectures on author rights and copyright. In 1996 they bought a property in the Bourbonnais in the Massif Central of France. There she grew vegetables and potatoes, which she then developed further in her art into the "Potato language". In 2003 she was invited by Jennifer Tee to an exhibition at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven , afterwards she was invited by Roberto Ohrt to an exhibition Baked Potatoes in 2006 and from 2008 to 2011 to a design exhibition Pommes de Jong in Albisola .
In 2003 the Cobra Museum in Amstelveen showed her work in a retrospective exhibition, which was also taken over by the KunstCentret Silkeborg Bad in Denmark. In 2009, together with Thomas Weyland, she established the Weyland De Jong Foundation , whose main goal is to support avant-garde artists from all disciplines, from architecture to art history, who are over 50. Thomas Weyland died in 2009.
In the years that followed, she continued to give lectures and in 2012 had an exhibition at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm. Her extensive archive was bought in 2011 by the beincke Rare Book and Manuscript Library , Yale University USA ("The de Jong Papers").
literature
- Undercover: In de Kunst / In Art (catalog)
- 50 Years of Recuperation of the Situationist International. Princeton Architectural Press. Schelvis, Jules (1986).
- Jacqueline de Jong: Painting 1964/65 - 1991 , Munich, Galerie Leger, 1991
- Jacqueline de Jong: Harvest - Schilderijen. Amsterdam, 2000
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jong, Jacqueline de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch painter, sculptor and graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hengelo , Netherlands |