Eddy de Jongh

Eduard Siegfried "Eddy" de Jongh (born 7 June 1931) is a Dutch art historian specialized in iconography. He was professor of art history with a teaching assignment in iconography at Utrecht University between 1976 and 1989.

Life

De Jongh was born on 7 June 1931 in Amsterdam.[1] He attended the Hogere Burgerschool and subsequently studied art history in Amsterdam.[1] In the 1960s De Jongh became lecturer at Utrecht University.[2] In 1976 he became a professor of art history with a teaching assignment in iconography at the same university. He retired in 1989 for health reasons.[1] In 1976 he was guest curator of the exposition Tot lering en vermaak at the Rijksmuseum. In the exposition signs provided explanations for the (moral) meaning of the art. The method introduced by de Jongh would be used for decades at the Rijksmuseum.[2] In the Netherlands de Jongh was influential in the debate between iconography and iconology.[3]

De Jongh was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1987.[4] In 2011 he received the Gijselaar-Hintzenfonds Prijs, intended for art historians who manage to reach a broad audience.[5] In 2019 he was awarded honorary membership of the Dutch Association of Art Historians (Dutch: Vereniging van Nederlandse Kunsthistorici), which called him the "founding father of iconography in the Netherlands".[6]

References
  1. "Prof. E.S. de Jongh (1931 - )" (in Dutch). Utrecht University. Archived from the original on 19 July 2020.
  2. Elizabeth Honig (February 2012). "1976 Eddy de Jongh: Tot lering en vermaak: betekenissen van Hollandse genrevoorstellingen uit de zeventiende eeuw Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum (tentoonstelling)" (in Dutch). Internationale Neerlandistiek. Archived from the original on 19 July 2020.
  3. Edward Grasman (2007). Gerson in Groningen: een portret van Horst Gerson, kunstkenner en hoogleraar kunstgeschiedenis (1907-1978). Uitgeverij Verloren. pp. 108–. ISBN 90-6550-998-4.
  4. "Eddy de Jongh". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 21 August 2017.
  5. "Eddy de Jongh" (in Dutch). VPRO. 11 November 2011. Retrieved 19 July 2020.
  6. "Erelidmaatschap VNK uitgereikt aan Willemijn Fock, Eddy de Jongh en Henk van Os" (in Dutch). kunsthistorici.nl. 14 October 2019. Archived from the original on 19 July 2020.
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