[32 pages], colour frontispiece, 4 colour plates and 11 black and white plates, pictorial cream boards, slightly soiled on the covers, a very good copy.
Text in English, Afrikaans and German.
Adolph Stephan Friedrich Jentsch was a German-born Namibian artist, born in Dresden in 1888, and died in Windhoek, Namibia (formerly South West Africa) in 1977. He studied at the Dresden Staatsakademie für Bildende Kunste (Dresden Art Academy, today's College of Fine Arts) for six years, and used a travel grant award to visit France, Italy, UK and the Netherlands.
Jentsch moved to Namibia in 1938 to escape the approaching war and lived there until his death. He travelled extensively in Namibia and eventually settled down near Dordabis, about 60 km from the capital Windhoek. Jentsch painted landscapes and worked in watercolour and oil. He was interested in Oriental philosophy and was influenced by Chinese Art. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolph_Jentsch
All the watercolours reproduced in this book show the surrounding country of the artist's home near Brack/Windhoek.
Inscription on the front free end paper reads: With best wishes for 1959 to Teddy and Joan. Anton Hendriks December 1958
- Overall Condition: A Very Good Copy
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