1. Adolph Stephan Friedrich Jentsch was a German-born Namibian artist.
17 Facts About Adolph Jentsch
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Adolph Jentsch studied at the Dresden Staatsakademie fur Bildende Kunste for six years, and used a travel grant award to visit France, Italy, UK and the Netherlands.
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Adolph Jentsch was the son of a Lutheran church official, Stephan Adolph Jentsch, and his wife Adele Rosenthal.
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Adolph Jentsch attended the gymnasium of the Brudergemeine Zinzendorf, at Nieski.
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Adolph Jentsch was awarded the Koniglich-Sachsische Staatsmedaille fur Kunst und Wissenschaft and several travel grants.
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Later, Adolph Jentsch often worked for Otto Gussmann, decorating public buildings.
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Adolph Jentsch was in the Jager-Reserve in the First World War, but developed a crippling rheumatism that put him into a military hospital at Neustadt for a year.
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Adolph Jentsch illustrated a children's book in 1927, and joined a group of interior decorators in Czechoslovakia.
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Adolph Jentsch worked on colour schemes and decorative painting on jobs in Germany and Czechoslovakia.
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Adolph Jentsch arrived in Africa in early 1938, and never left, working in oils and watercolour until his death in 1977.
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Adolph Jentsch painted landscapes almost exclusively, working in watercolour and oil.
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Adolph Jentsch was interested in Oriental philosophy, specifically Taoism, and was influenced by Chinese Art.
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Adolph Jentsch found the Namibian landscape amenable to his mystical approach to art.
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In 1960 Adolph Jentsch abandoned oils and worked only in watercolour.
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In 1975, farm workers at Brack, attempting to smoke out a wasp's nest, started a fire in the rafters of the old barn where Adolph Jentsch stored much of his oeuvre in an upright metal filing cabinet.
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Four of Adolph Jentsch's watercolours were reproduced in limited editions by his biographer Olga Levinson's son, Orde, in 1975.
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Adolph Jentsch died of pneumonia in the Windhoek State Hospital on 18 April, 1977.