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Jacobus Hendrik Pierneef
Jacobus Hendrik (Henk) Pierneef (usually referred to as Pierneef) (13 August 1886 Pretoria – 4 October 1957 Pretoria), was a South African landscape artist, generally considered to be one of the best of the old South African masters. His distinctive style is widely recognised and his work was greatly influenced by the South African landscape.
Pierneef was born in Pretoria, from Dutch and Boer parentage. He started his high school career at the Staatsmodelschool (literally “model state school”) there, where he took his first art classes, but it was interrupted by the Second Boer War. Due to the war, the Pierneef family decided to move back to the Netherlands in 1901. While there he studied at the Rotterdamse Kunstakademie. During this time, he also came into contact with the works of the old masters, which left a lasting impression on him.
Pierneef held his first solo exhibition in 1913, to great critical acclaim, some even describing his work as that of a genius, which inspired him greatly. His second solo exhibition was held two years later and was also very well received. During this period, he also did various illustrations for a periodicals and books. In 1918, Pierneef left the State Library and started a career as an art lecturer at the Heidelberg (South Africa) College of Education. In that year he also painted the bush camp of Anton van Wouw of which two versions remains to today. One with, and one without visitors. During these camping adventures Van Wouw and Pierneef talked, sketched, fished for kurper and drank a great deal of coffee.
During the following year, he also started teaching drawing at the Pretoria College of Education. These positions gave him the opportunity to focus on his art and he participated in many successful solo and group exhibitions during 1920 to 1921. Due to the recognition that he received, Pierneef realised that he was setting the trend for a unique South African style. Personally, it was a difficult time in his life – his wife Agatha suffered from a mental disorder and also started to lose her sight. Pierneef resigned as lecturer and became a full-time painter in 1923, due to differences of opinion regarding the curriculum with the Department of Education.
In 1925 he had an exhibition in Johannesburg and it was clear that the fifty works on show showed a new vitality and enthusiasm. In 1925 the couple went to Europe were Pierneef worked hard to promote himself but also to learn about the different art movements. In the same year he also had an exhibition in the Netherlands and it was especially the Bushmen drawings that sparked great interest. In 1926 they returned on a ship which sailed along the east cost of Africa and he sketched the ports where they docked. In 1927 after the birth of his daughter Pierneef had a very successful exhibition of 86 works in Pretoria.
Pierneef visited South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1923 to 1924, where he sketched extensively for paintings that would later be completed in his studio. These would later be considered some of his best works.
In 1928 Pierneef shocked the traditionalists by including some abstract modern and as some called it ” Futuristic ” works in an exhibition. These were not accepted as well as his traditional works that he became known for and after bad reviews from people like Anton Van Wouw, he had to revert back to his old style.
Pierneef accepted a commission in 1929 to paint 32 panels for the interior of the then-new Johannesburg Railway Station, a task he completed by 1932. Since 2002 the complete set of thirty two panels, twenty eight landscape and four tree scenes, is on long term loan from the Transnet Foundation to the Rupert Art Foundation and have also been exhibited in the Jan Rupert Centre in Graaff-Reinet. The panels are considered to be some of his best work.
He died in 1957.
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By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $239.00Karoo Landscape
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $299.00Jonkershoek, Stellenbosch
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $279.00Karoo Landscape
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $279.00Hectorspruit
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $259.00Hoëveld By Middelburg
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $269.00Hardekoolboom in a Bushveld Landscape2
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $269.00Heidelberg Transvaal
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $249.00Houtbos Transvaal
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $249.00Landscape with Two Cottages
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $299.00Near Neudam, Auas Mountains, Swa
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $329.00Landscape
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $279.00Near Karibib
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $279.00Landscape, Northern Transvaal
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $269.00Purple Mountains
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $269.00Landscape, S.W.A
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $269.00Mountains, Prins Albert
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $249.00Homestead
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $299.00Rainclouds and Sunshine, South West Africa
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $279.00Storm Clouds
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $289.00Landscape with Clouds
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $279.00Landscape S.W.A
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $279.00Kraal, Northern Transvaal
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $279.00Sunlit Mountains, Clarens
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $269.00A Cape Avenue, Possibly Worcester
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $279.00Landscape with Dam
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $299.00Landscape with Willow Trees
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $289.00Landscape_Near Wolmarans Farm South Africa
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $299.00Landscape with Ploughed Fields, a Village Beyond
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $289.00Landscape with Trees
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $279.00Landscape with Riverbed
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $259.00Kloof Rustenburg
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $249.00Knysnakoppe
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $249.00Middag, Waterval Onder, 1917
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $329.00Mountains near Okahandja, South West Africa
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $299.00Landscape
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $279.00Mountains in Swaziland
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $279.00Landscape, Skuilkrans
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $289.00Mountain Cottage
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $269.00Lavender Treescape, Pilgrims Rest
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $249.00Louis Trichardt
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $239.00Op Doringpoort
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $279.00Ou Pretoria at Van Der Hovensdrift
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $279.00Palm Trees near Trichardsdal
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $279.00Pienaars Rivier
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $279.00Pienaarsrivier
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $249.00Plaasopstel Met Bome
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $289.00River Landscape
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $289.00Sketch near Pretoria
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $389.00Springbokvlakte Der Waterborg Transvaal, Voorjaar, South Africa
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $299.00Riverscape
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $299.00Storm Over the Lowveld
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $279.00Cloud Study
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $269.00Summer Rain Over a Cape Farmhouse
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $269.00Storm Clouds Over the Veld
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $279.00Scene on the South African Veldt
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $259.00Swartbergpas
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $239.00Stellenbosch
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $249.00The Road, Waterberg
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $289.00Trees By a Dam
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $279.00The Brandberg, Swa
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $279.00Rainbow Over the Springbok Flats
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $279.00Transvaal Landscape, 1918
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $269.00Tree Trunks
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $289.00Tafelberg
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $249.00Trees with Kopje Beyond
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $279.00Vissersskuit Houtbaai
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $279.00Wild Pear Tree in Blossom, Bosveld, Northern Transvaal
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $279.00Wilde Vye Boom, near Louis Trichardt
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $289.00Wilde Vye Boom, Sweetwaters, Louis Trichardt
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $289.00Wemmer’s Hoek
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $269.00Vaalrivier Parys
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $249.00Waterval Boven
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $249.00Wilgerboom, Rooiplaatplaas, Noord-Transvaal – Sonopkoms, 1925
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $299.00Willow Trees, Rooiplaat
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $279.00Near Franschhoek, Western Cape
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $279.00Woodland
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $269.00Willow Tree, 1923
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $269.00Luncarty House
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $269.00The Golden Gate
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $299.00Willows 1914
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $289.00Willows 1918
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $289.00Willow Trees in Summer
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $289.00Willows in the Transvaal
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $289.00Willow Tree
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $249.00Tree in the Veld, 1917
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $259.00The Bush Camp of Anton Van Wouw, Rooiplaat
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $269.00Veld Landscape
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $269.00Cape Dutch House
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $279.00Cape Farm on a Windy Day
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $279.00Hertestraat, Stellenbosch
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $249.00Elim, Kp, Naby Bredasdorp, 1950
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $269.00Homestead
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $279.00The Farmstead, 1921
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $279.00Cape Farmhouse
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $279.00The Slave Bell
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $299.00Wynkelder By Du Toits Plaas, Krommerivier, Stellenbosch
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $299.00Water Wheel at Twee Jonge Gezellen, Tulbagh
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $279.00Die Geloftekerkie in Pietermaritzburg
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $279.00Meintjeskop, Pretoria, South Africa
By Jacobus Hendrik PierneefSizes starting at $269.00