Jacqueline de Jong - Litho - Sold

Lithograph by Jaqueline de Jong. Dimensions including passe-partout: H41.5 x W30cm. Dimensions representation: H27 x W20cm. The work is signed in the print by the artist. The work comes from Derrière le Miroir.


When purchasing, the work can be picked up in 's-Gravenzande (near The Hague (Scheveningen), Rotterdam and Delft and 5 minutes from the beach). The term for collection, if paid in advance, is very long, in other words, the buyer can collect the work weeks or even months later and, if possible, combine it with a visit to one of the aforementioned cities or the beach. We can also send the work via Postnl. Our shipping days are Tuesday and Thursday.

Jacqueline Beatrice de Jong (born 3 February 1939 in Hengelo) is a Dutch visual artist, draftsman, sculptor and graphic artist.



Biography
Youth and education
Jacqueline de Jong was born in 1939 in Hengelo (Overijssel). In 1942 her Jewish family had to go into hiding. At first it tried to flee to England, but failed. Her Swiss mother and the Dutch artist Max van Dam took her to Switzerland, to Zurich; her father stayed behind in Amsterdam. At the Swiss border they were arrested by the French police, but just as they were about to be taken to the Drancy transit camp, they were freed by the resistance, who helped them cross the border.
In 1947, at the age of 8, De Jong returned to the Netherlands with her mother. At that time she did not speak Dutch, but Swiss German. She went to school in Hengelo and the Municipal Lyceum in Enschede. At the age of 18, in 1957, De Jong left for Paris. She studied French and drama and worked in Christian Dior's boutique. In the spring of 1958 she left for London where she studied drama at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, wanting to become an actress. She then returned to Amsterdam, where she was employed by the Stedelijk Museum between 1958 and 1961 as an assistant in the department of applied art under director Willem Sandberg. In 1959, while visiting London, she met the Danish artist and founder of CoBrA Asger Jorn, with whom she became involved.
International Situationists
In 1960 De Jong joined the International Situationists. After Constant Nieuwenhuijs and his group were forced to leave the organization, De Jong formed the Dutch section. Between 1962 and 1968 she was editor and publisher of The Situationist Times, a project that also involved Gaston Bachelard, Roberto Matta, Wifredo Lam and Jacques Prévert. From the beginning of her activities as an artist, sculptor and graphic artist, her work has been exhibited all over Europe and the United States. Among other things, she realized murals for the Stopera in Amsterdam and an installation for the Nederlandsche Bank.
1970s to 21st century
In 1970 she left Asger Jorn. She moved to Amsterdam with Hans Brinkman, who would later own a gallery and organize exhibitions and international fairs. In 1989, De Jong and Brinkman separated. In 1990, De Jong became the partner of lawyer Thomas H. Weyland (1931-2009) and they married in 1998. The couple gave several lectures on intellectual property law and copyright in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. In 1996 they bought their estate in the Bourbonnais in France. This is where De Jong has her vegetable garden and grows the potatoes that she transformed into art and jewellery.
In 2003, the Cobra Museum of Modern Art in Amstelveen and the KunstCentret Silkeborg Bad Denmark showed a retrospective of her work, which also included the publication of the catalog Jacqueline de Jong: undercover in the Arts. Together with Thomas H. Weyland, she founded the Weyland de Jong foundation in 2008. Its main goal is to support avant-garde artists from all disciplines, architects and artist-scientists over the age of fifty.
Weyland passed away in 2009. In 2011, De Jong's archive was purchased by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University.
In 2019 she was awarded the French Aware Prize for her "exceptional career and oeuvre" and a major retrospective of her work, entitled Pinball Wizard, took place at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.