Tinus de jongh biography examples
He was born on 6th April in Amsterdam, Holland and arrived in Cape Town as a boy of 9 years old in Initially they lived in a cottage in Fishhoek, for.
Tinus de Jongh was born and raised in Amsterdam....
Tinus de Jongh - South African Artist From Art History
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 in Amsterdam.
Short Artist Biography
- Tinus De Jongh was forbidden to study art by his parents; took a post with a firm of decorators in Amsterdam but left after two years to concentrate on painting; painted street scenes, interiors and landscapes in Amsterdam tradition.
- Achieved local recognition, his work was purchased by the Stedelik Museum.
- 1921 Tinus De Jongh came to South Africa, began painting views of Cape Town; during the early years he lived in a one-room cottage at Deep River with wife and three children; painting of South African Houses of Parliament purchased by South African Government for office of High-Commissioner in London.
- 1922 One-man exhibition in Johannesburg; traveled and painted on the platteland; gradually gaining