Jacqueline de Jong

Jacqueline de Jong ( b. 1939 in Hengelo, The Netherlands), Dutch artist.

She was the daughter of Jewish parents. Given the German invasion in World War II had to hide from the Nazis in the family. De Jong and her mother tried to flee to Switzerland, but were apprehended at the border by French police, they should be deported, and have just been released in time by the Resistance.

She later worked in the Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum, and learned in Paris painter Asger Jorn know. By Jorn they came into contact with other Situationists, was a member of the group and took part in the conferences.

From 1962 to 1967, she published the Situationist Times, along with Gaston Bachelard, Roberto Matta, Wifredo Lam and Jacques Prévert. In the May riots in 1968 they printed posters and distributed them in Paris.

She is now married to a gallery and sometimes seen in Belgium and Holland on television. She continues to work as an artist and has a large archive of avant-garde art.

Work

Besides her work as part of the S.I. employs de Jong with figurative painting and action painting.