Jongkind出生在镇拉特罗普在上艾瑟尔的省荷兰的边境附近的德国。在艺术学院训练有素的海牙，在1846年他移居蒙帕纳斯在巴黎，法国师从尤金·伊沙贝和弗朗索瓦-爱德华皮科。两年后，在巴黎沙龙接受了他的工作的展览，他收到了来自评论家的好评波德莱尔，后来从左拉。他却经历收效甚微，以及他遭遇的回合消沉由复杂酒精中毒。

Jongkind返回住在鹿特丹于1855年，并在那里停留，直到1860年。回到巴黎，1861年他租上的Rue de Chevreuse的摄影棚蒙帕纳斯他的一些绘画开始显示瞥见印象派的风格来。1862年，他遇到了在诺曼底，在著名的ferme酒店圣西缅在翁弗勒尔，他的一些艺术家朋友，如阿尔弗雷德·西斯莱，尤金布丹，和年轻的莫奈，要所有的人Jongkind担任导师。莫奈后来称他为“......一个安静的人与这样的人才是无以言表” ，并存入自己的眼睛Jongkind的“权威教育”。1863年Jongkind陈列在第一沙龙拒绝。他被邀请参加了印象派组的第一次展览于1874年，但他拒绝了。

1878年，Jongkind和他的同伴约瑟芬Fesser搬到住在小镇拉科特圣昂德雷附近格勒诺布尔在伊泽尔 省département在法国东南部。他于1891年死于圣埃格雷夫，在同一个省département。他被埋葬在拉科特圣昂德雷的墓地。有条街道在19世纪和20世纪荷兰画家的名字命名的街道附近后，他的名字命名Overtoomse草原 -Noord，阿姆斯特丹。

Jongkind最常见的主题是海洋风景，他无论是在荷兰和法国画。他的许多作品描绘了塞纳河，特别是靠近该地区的巴黎圣母院大教堂。他画的水彩画外的门，并用它们作为草图在他的工作室制作的油画。他的画的特点是有力的笔触和强烈对比。像的17世纪荷兰风景画家1。荷兰绘画的黄金时代，他通常由他的风景画具有低地平线，让天空主宰。
 

Near the border of Holland Province, Town La Tropp Jongkind was born in Germany in Overijssel. At the Art Institute of Hague in 1846 and trained with regularity, he moved to Montparnasse in Paris, France with Eugene Isabey and Francois Aidehuapike. Two years later, at the salon in Paris, he received an exhibition of his work, he received praise from critics, Baudelaire, and later from Zola. He has had little success, and his bout of depression is complicated by alcoholism.
Jongkind returned to live in Rotterdam in 1855 and stayed there until 1860. Back in Paris, some painting studio Mengpanasita he rent Rue de Chevreuse in 1861 began to show glimpses of Impressionist style. In 1862, he met in Normandy, in the famous St. Simeon ferme hotel in Honfleur, some of his artist friends, such as Alfred Sislev, Eugene Budan, and young Monet, who served as mentors to all Jongkind. Monet later called him "... A quiet man with such talent is beyond words" and deposited his eyes on Jongkind's "authoritative education". 1863 Jongkind show in the first salon refused. He was invited to participate in the first exhibition of the Impressionist group in 1874, but he refused.
In 1878, Jongkind and his partner Josephine Fesser Luckett moved to live in a small town near Grenoble in the Shengangdelei Isere D partement in southeastern france. He died in Shengaigeleifu on 1891, in the same province, D partement. He was buried in Luckett cemetery Shengangdelei. There was a street in nineteenth Century and in the name of the Holland painter named after the street near, his name was Overtoomse grassland in Amsterdam, -Noord.
Jongkind is the most common theme of the marine landscape, he painted both in Holland and france. Many of his works depict Seine River, especially the Notre Dame de Paris Cathedral near the area. He painted the exterior doors of the watercolor painting and used them as sketches in his studio to make the oil paintings. His paintings are characterized by powerful strokes and strong contrast. The seventeenth Century Holland landscape painter 1. The golden age of Holland painting, he usually by his landscape with a low horizon, let the sky dominate.