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 directly from artist
Thence by direct descent to The DinksFãStan Private Collection

The subject matter of this work depicts the home of Hans Jorgen Andrup where Alexander Rose-Innes was a frequent visitor. Born 21 February 1918 at Copenhagen, Denmark, Adrup 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 (like artists Jean Welz and Francois Krige) 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.