(1911 - 1975 )Impressionist Modern Alexis Preller was born in 1911 in Pretoria and went to school at Pretoria Boys High School, where he was always drawn to the theatre and was involved with many productions. Later he worked as a clerk for some time before persuading...

(1912 - 2001)Impressionist Modern “I aim to paint my people as I see them. I also like to depict beautiful and dignified mountains, rivers and landscapes of South Africa.” George Pemba. One of South Africa’s pioneer black painters, George Milwa Mnyaluza Pemba, was...

(1913 - 1993 )Impressionist Modern “I am glad that people owning my works are communicating in spirit. That makes me feel happy and puts up lights into the dubious sides of my life, to know there are people spiritually communicating in many places upon earth.” Gerard...

(1894 - 1966) Modern Impressionist “And what she knows of Africa, the heart of it; all her pictures breathe it out…” – Cape Times, 1929 Irma Stern was a prominent South African artist who attained national and international recognition in her lifetime. Born in the...

(1886 - 1957 )Modern Impressionist Jacob Hendrik Pierneef was born in 1886 in Pretoria to Dutch immigrant parents. He left South Africa for Holland as part of the deportation during the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) and it was there that Pierneef attended the Rotterdam...

(1886 - 1973)Modern Impressionist Maria Magdalena (Maggie) Laubser was born in the Malmesbury district, Cape Town, in 1886. She attended Bloemhof Seminary in Stellenbosch until the age of 15. She later attended singing lessons in Cape Town, where she became involved...

(1902 - 1985 )Modern Impressionist “As a person I am South African and English, but as a painter I am French.” – Maud Sumner South African artist Maud Sumner once commented; “as a person I am South African and English, but as a painter I am French” (Berman, E....

(1902 - 1992 )Impressionist Modern Ruth Everard-Haden was born in 1904 at Nottingham Road in KwaZulu-Natal, as the first daughter of the artist Bertha Everard. Born into a remarkably creative family of women painters, Ruth’s mother, Bertha along with her sister Edith...

(1902 - 1938)Impressionist Modern Wolf Kibel was born in Grodzisk, a village near Warsaw, the capital city of Poland in 1903. He was the son of a Jewish Cantor and the ritual slaughterer of the village. As a young boy, he used to carve grotesques from his father’s...