Jacob Hendrik Pierneef

Jacob Hendrik Pierneef

Jacob Hendrik Pierneef was born in 1886 in Pretoria to Dutch immigrant parents. He left South Africa for Holland as part of the deportation during the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) and it was there that Pierneef attended the Rotterdam Academy before his return to Pretoria in 1902. In 1925, at the age of 39, Pierneef again returned to Europe and was exposed to the development of Post-Impressionism, a rejection or altered position from Impressionism following its halted state from the onset of the First World War in 1914, and the move into monumental decorative art. Read more.