From getting married in Belarus, conducting field research and having a Church marriage in South Africa, things have been busy. Recently my wife and I traveled from Cape Town to Humansdorp, Port Elisabeth, Grahamstown, King Williams Town and East London, Each of which have their own Adolph's to boast about.
In this South African Adolph's series we will discover many unassuming Adolphs'.
This is because Jentsch would stare out at the landscape for hours gently smoking on his cigar and reflecting on his inner world. Jentsch said of his art that he was painting his mood and not the landscape he saw, maybe if he remained in Germany his mood wood have been radically different and his art would of showed us of the war, but the still serene nature of Namibia spoke deeply of Jentsch's soul. Once Jentsch was asked how he created his art, to which he responded "do you think about your grammar when you pray."
Jentsch believed that Artists are very different to scientists, since artists are irrational and are meant to be. They receive information and unpack it based on their intuition, this is something that science is simply unable to do. He believed that science cannot produce art, and even more so it is incapable of moral or religious values.
Jentsch never returned home to Germany as Namibia was where his soul belonged, he died in a hospital bed in Windhoek state Hospital of pneumonia. The doctors and nurses tried to keep him alive, but at age 89 he was ready to go. He died on April 18, 1977.
For more information about Adolph Jentsch check the references below:
www.adolphjentsch.com
Adolph Jentsch, Olga Levinson p. 24