Johan Jongkind

Artist: Jongkind, Johan

October 7, 2021 / ° Artists
Johan Jongkind

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Johan Barthold Jongkind (1819 – 1891) was a Dutch artist. He painted many marine landscapes in a free manner and is regarded as a forerunner of the Impressionist movement.

Jongkind was born in the town of Lattrop in the Overijssel province of the Netherlands near the border with Germany. Trained at the art academy in The Hague under Andreas Schelfhout, in 1846 he moved to Montparnasse in Paris, France where he studied under Eugene Isabey and Francois-Edouard Picot.

Two years later, the Paris Salon accepted his work for its exhibition, and he received acclaim from critic Charles Baudelaire and later on from Emile Zola. He was to experience little success, however, and he suffered bouts of depression complicated by alcoholism.

Jongkind returned to live in Rotterdam in 1855, and remained there until 1860. Back in Paris, in 1861 he rented a studio on the rue de Chevreuse in Montparnasse where some of his paintings began to show glimpses of the Impressionist style to come.

In 1862 he met in Normandy, in the famous ferme Saint-Simeon in Honfleur, with some of his artist friends, such as Alfred Sisley, Eugene Boudin, and the young Claude Monet, to all of whom Jongkind served as a mentor. Monet later referred to him as “…a quiet man with such a talent that is beyond words” and credited the “definitive education” of his own eye to Jongkind.

In 1878, Jongkind and his companion Josephine Fesser moved to live in the small town of La Cote-Saint-Andre near Grenoble in the Isere departement in the southeast of France. He died in 1891 in Saint-Egreve, in the same departement. He is buried in the cemetery of La Cote-Saint-Andre.

Click here to read Jongkind’s full bio on Wikipedia.

Jongkind painted in several places in France (a link “⇠” to his works per place will appear below when published):

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