De Jong Jacqueline

Jacqueline de Jong was a Dutch artist, born in Hengelo in 1939 and passed away in Amsterdam in 2024. She was a painter, draughtswoman, sculptor, and graphic artist.   In 1957, she moved to Paris, where she studied French and drama and worked at Christian Dior. Later, she pursued drama studies at the Guildhall School in London. Between 1958 and 1961, she worked at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam under Willem Sandberg.

In 1959, she met Danish artist and CoBrA founder Asger Jorn, with whom she developed a relationship. In 1960, Jacqueline de Jong joined the Situationist International and, following the departure of Constant Nieuwenhuys, founded the Dutch section. Between 1962 and 1968, she served as editor and publisher of The Situationist Times, an influential avant-garde project.

From the 1960s onwards, her work was exhibited internationally, and she created murals and installations, including for the Stopera in Amsterdam and the Nederlandsche Bank. After her relationship with Jorn, she moved to Amsterdam in 1970 and lived with Hans Brinkman, later partnering in 1990 with lawyer Thomas H. Weyland, whom she married in 1998. Together, they founded the Weyland de Jong Foundation to support avant-garde artists.

In 2019, her career was honored with the French Aware Prize, and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam dedicated a major retrospective to her work under the title Pinball Wizard. Jacqueline de Jong spent the last years of her life at the Rosa Spier Huis in Laren. (BT)