Contact Details

Winery Road,
Raithby,
Somerset West,
Western Cape
7130

Cell: 083 700 4711
Email: vinceart@lantic.net
Managing Director
Rene Goosen

Pierneef, Jacob Hendrik

Jacob Hendrik Pierneef (13 August 1886 – 14 November 1957) 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.

Most of his landscapes were of the South African highveld, which provided a lifelong source of inspiration for him. Pierneef’s style was to reduce and simplify the landscape to geometric structures, using flat planes, lines and colour to present the harmony and order in nature. This resulted in formalised, ordered and often-monumental view of the South African landscape, uninhabited and with dramatic light and colour.

Pierneef’s work can be seen worldwide in many private, corporate and public collections, including the Africana Museum, Durban Art Gallery, Johannesburg Art Gallery, King George VI Art Gallery, Pierneef Museum and the Pretoria Art Gallery.