Johann Jongkind
(1819–1891) Dutch painter and printmaker regarded as a forerunner of Impressionism (1819-1891)
Johann Jongkind (Netherlands, 1819–1891) is listed in the catalogue as a painter and a draughtsman. By year of birth, Johann Jongkind belongs to the chapter ‘Realism’ in this site’s history of art.
Johann Jongkind was born in Lattrop and died in La Côte-Saint-André. Johann Jongkind trained at Haagsche Teekenacademie. The teachers included Andreas Schelfhout and Eugène Isabey. Johann Jongkind worked in Apeldoorn. Johann Jongkind was awarded Royal Prize for Painting.
The best-known works include ‘Overschie bij maneschijn’, ‘Rotterdam in the Moonlight’, and ‘Winter landscape with Skaters’. The works belong mainly to the genre landscape painting. The catalogue has 95 works by Johann Jongkind with free images. The dated works span the years 1844–1895. Works by Johann Jongkind are held by several collections, among them Rosenwald Collection, Rijksmuseum, drawings in the National Gallery of Art, and Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. Wikidata links 2 works to movements covered in the chapter ‘Impressionism’.
Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Cornelis Springer, Johannes Bosboom, Berthe Hoola van Nooten, Adrianus Eversen, and Charles Henri Joseph Leickert.