JH Pierneef 001

About the artist

Jacobus Hendrik Pierneef (J.H. Pierneef) was one of South Africa's most iconic landscape artists. Born in Pretoria in 1886, he studied art from a young age and trained in the Netherlands. Pierneef became famous for his stylized, geometric portrayals of the South African highveld and rural landscapes. He is especially known for his mural cycle at Johannesburg Station (1929–32) and for creating large-scale canvases wit…