ADOLPH JENTSCH & FRITZ KRAMPE
The NAGN exhibited wildlife artists Adolf Jentsch and Fritz Krampe, at the gallery's lower level. The exhibition offered a chance to rediscover the artists through the works of their last active decades, from the 1930's to about 1960. The sharply focused, impeccably chosen exhibition encompassed paintings of the wild and nature.
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Fritz Krampe (1913- 1917) is one of those rare artists whose work, though easily recognized by the elite art society, remains enigmatic and breathe-taking. As one walks into the lower gallery one is faced with an outlined portraits of a San People and Ovahimba women, the gestures and poses here are those of transition not completion, they suggest not timelessness but the fleeting moment. One also finds an aristocratic, humbled self portrait in oil on canvas, a depiction of the young artist Adolf Jentsch (1888-1977) Jentsch is a man that's inspired very much by his surroundings, and landscapes are enlivened by Jentsch.
