Jacob Pierneef

Jacob Hendrik Pierneef

Nickname: 'Pierneef'

Former South African Artist

Born 13-08-1886

Deceased

Jacob Hendrik Pierneef was a South African Artist. He was mainly a landscape artist, generally considered to be one of the best of the old South African masters. His distinctive style is widely recognized and his work was greatly influenced by the South African landscape.
Most of his landscapes were of the South African highveld, which provided a lifelong source of inspiration for him. Pierneef's style was to reduce and simplify the landscape to geometric structures, using flat planes, lines and colour to present the harmony and order in nature. This resulted in formalized, ordered and often-monumental view of the South African landscape, uninhabited and with dramatic light and colour.