ANDRUP LOUNGE
signed in English A Rose-Innes lower left
oil on canvas
48 x 59.5cm; 19 x 23 1/2in
57.5 x 70.5cm; 22 3/4 x 27 3/4in (framed)

Property from a Private Collection, Cambridge

Provenance
Acquired from the artist
Thence by direct descent to The DinksFãStan Private Collection

Rose-Innes was a frequent visitor to the home of home of Hans Jorgen Andrup in Cape Town. Born in 1918 in Copenhagen, Denmark, Andrup was an actor in his youth appearing in Danish films. He first arrived in Cape Town in 1952 with first wife Kirsten Lette and their only child from Sweden, where the family had sought refuge during the German occupation of Denmark in the Second World War. He lived in Namibia from 1962 to 1974. He worked as an architect and was also producer and director of drama for SWAPAC until 1973. In Namibia (formerly South West Africa), he married his second wife Gertrud Marie Andrup, née Henning, in 1971.