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Jacqueline de Jong (born 1939) is a Dutch painter, sculptor and graphic artist. She was born in the
Dutch
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town of
Hengelo
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to
Jew
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ish parents. Faced with the German invasion, they went into hiding. After an abortive escape attempt to
England
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, her father Hans remained in
Amsterdam
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while her mother and she made for
Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
, accompanied by the Dutch painter
Max van Dam. At the border they were captured by the
French
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police, but just as they were about to be deported to the
Drancy internment camp
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, they were rescued by the
resistance, who helped them over the border.
When they returned to the Netherlands following the war, Jacqueline could not speak Dutch. From 1947 on she went to school in Hengelo and Enschede (Gemeentelijk Lyceum).
In 1957 she went to Paris and was employed in the boutique at Christian Dior in the meantime studying French and drama.
After leaving for London spring 1958 studying
drama
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been ...
at the
Guildhall School of Music and Drama
The Guildhall School of Music and Drama is a conservatoire and drama school located in the City of London, United Kingdom. Established in 1880, the school offers undergraduate and postgraduate training in all aspects of classical music and jazz ...
, she returned to Amsterdam September 1958 – 1961 and was employed by the
Stedelijk Museum
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Modern Art
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there. She visited London in 1959 where she met
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painter
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Asger Jorn
Asger Oluf Jorn (3 March 1914 – 1 May 1973) was a Danish painter, sculptor, ceramic artist, and author. He was a founding member of the avant-garde movement COBRA and the Situationist International. He was born in Vejrum, in the northwest c ...
, the founder of the
CoBrA group, They became companions. He was forty-five years old, compared to her twenty years.
She joined the
Situationist International
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in 1960,
and started to participate in conferences and the Central committee. After the expulsion of
Constant Nieuwenhuys
Constant Anton Nieuwenhuys (21 July 1920 – 1 August 2005), better known as Constant, was a Dutch painter, sculptor, graphic artist, author and musician.
Early period
Constant was born in Amsterdam on 21 July 1920 as the first son of Pieter N ...
and his group, she became the Dutch Section of the organization. She did not accept the way the German section, also known as
Gruppe SPUR
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, had been expelled and resigned. The cleft between the Debordists and the
Second Situationist International grew, however she refused to join either faction, instead stating that people should act as situationists.
Between 1962 and 1968 she edited and published ''
The Situationist Times''
involving
Gaston Bachelard
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,
Roberto Matta
Roberto Sebastián Antonio Matta Echaurren (; November 11, 1911 – November 23, 2002), better known as Roberto Matta, was one of Chile's best-known painters and a seminal figure in 20th century abstract expressionist and surrealist art.
Bio ...
,
Wifredo Lam
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and
Jacques Prévert
Jacques Prévert (; 4 February 1900 – 11 April 1977) was a French poet and screenwriter. His poems became and remain popular in the French-speaking world, particularly in schools. His best-regarded films formed part of the poetic realist moveme ...
in this project.
In 1968 she was in Paris, printing and distributing revolutionary posters.
From starting her activities as a painter, sculptor and graphic artist she keeps on exhibiting all over Europe and the U.S.A.
She realized wall paintings for the Amsterdam Town Hall and a separation installation for the Nederlandse Bank.
In 1970 she left Asger Jorn and moved to Amsterdam with Hans Brinkman later on a gallery owner and organiser of exhibitions and international Fairs.
They divorced in 1989. In 1990 she became the companion of lawyer Thomas H. Weyland (Tom 1931-2009).
From 1995 Tom Weyland was on the editorial board of the International Journal of Cultural Property (de Gruyter Berlin- New York).
They got married in 1998 in Airopolie (Greece). They gave several lectures on 'intellectual right, copyright, détournement and modification' in the Netherlands and U.K.
In 1996 they bought their property in the Bourbonnais France where she has her vegetable garden and grows the potatoes which became Art ("Potatoe language" in 2003 van Abbe Museum Eindhoven invited by Jennifer Tee, "Baked Potatoes" 2006 Albisola Italy invited by Roberto Ohrt and the Golden and Platina jewellery "Pommes de Jong" 2008-2011.
In 2003 a retrospective exhibition of her work was shown at the Cobra Museum for Contemporary Art in Amstelveen, the Netherlands and the
KunstCentret Silkeborg Bad Denmark, whereas a monography was published 'Undercover in de Kunst/in Art' Edition Ludion, Belgium.
Together with Tom she realized The Weyland de Jong Foundation early 2009. The main aim is to support avant-garde artists of all disciplines, architects and art-scientists having reached the age of 50 and over.
Weyland died in May 2009.
Lecture (Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 7 May 2012) and Exhibition (Moderna Museet Stockholm, 25 February - 8 April 2012) were planned and are realized 2009-2012.
Her Archive was purchased by
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
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, Yale University USA ('The de Jong Papers') in 2011.
An exhibition at the occasion on the 50th birthday of The Situationist Times (1962–2012) is planned in NYC at the Boo-Hooray Gallery, and at the Beinecke Library (Yale) and in Paris at Librairie Lecointre-Drouet in the year 2012.
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External links
www.jacquelinedejong.com Official website*
Jacqueline de Jong Papers. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
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1939 births
Living people
20th-century Dutch women artists
21st-century Dutch women artists
Dutch activists
Dutch women activists
Dutch painters
People from Hengelo
Painters from Amsterdam
Dutch women painters