{"id":1102,"date":"2018-02-01T15:39:24","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T14:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herenplaats.nl\/?post_type=artist&#038;p=1102"},"modified":"2025-09-18T14:17:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T12:17:58","slug":"elbert-de-jong","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/www.herenplaats.nl\/en\/artist\/elbert-de-jong\/","title":{"rendered":"Elbert de Jong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Elbert de Jong (1923-2009)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>You can see the tears in Elbert\u2019s eyes as he tells how he had to give up his passion for drawing because his mother found it wasn\u2019t a real occupation. He worked until he was 65 at the social workshop. Then he worked at Herenplaats.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An important part of the work of Elbert revolves around his everyday surroundings: the flowers on the windowsill, Miep the cat and other animals such as butterflies and birds, mice and dogs. Another important theme is religious images. The work is strikingly two-dimensional. Subjects are placed next to each other and provided with a clear contour. This way a quilt work emerges of subjects broken into hundreds of coloured surfaces. This work is often reminiscent of stained glass paintings or medieval miniature book illustrations.<\/p>\n<p>Elbert died at the age of 86 on January 30th 2009. In his drawings Elbert still has a lot to tell us about the world around us.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Exhibitions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2002\u00a0 Gallery Waai en Braai, Maarn<\/p>\n<p>2002\u00a0 &#8220;Cash &amp; Carry&#8221;, Gallery Herenplaats, Rotterdam<\/p>\n<p>2004\u00a0 Outsider Art Show, Gallery Herenplaats, Rotterdam<\/p>\n<p>2004\u00a0 &#8220;Keuze uit eigen kunst&#8221; (the artists choice),\u00a0Gallery Herenplaats, Rotterdam<\/p>\n<p>2004\u00a0 &#8220;Cash &amp; Carry&#8221;, Gallery Herenplaats, Rotterdam<\/p>\n<p>2006\u00a0 Jubilee exhibition\u00a015 years Herenplaats,\u00a0Galerie Herenplaats,\u00a0Rotterdam<\/p>\n<p>2007\u00a0 &#8220;My life in colour pencil&#8221;, solo exhibition De Hofstee, Rotterdam<\/p>\n<p>2010\u00a0\u00a0&#8220;Outsider Art Salon&#8221;, Galerie Herenplaats, Rotterdam<\/p>\n<p>Artwork of\u00a0Elbert is included in the Max E. Ammann collection,\u00a0Switzerland<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elbert de Jong (1923-2009) You can see the tears in Elbert\u2019s eyes as he tells how he had to give up his passion for drawing because his mother found it wasn\u2019t a real occupation. He worked until he was 65 at the social workshop. Then he worked at Herenplaats.\u00a0 An important part of the work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1540,"template":"","class_list":["post-1102","artist","type-artist","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herenplaats.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist\/1102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herenplaats.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herenplaats.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artist"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herenplaats.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herenplaats.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}