Gregoire Johannes Boonzaier
Gregoire Johannes Boonzaier
Gregoire Boonzaier was born in 1909 to the political cartoonist D.C Boonzaier. Due heavily to the nature of his father’s work, he was continually surrounded by the vanguard of South African arts and artists. These artists included Anton van Wouw, Pieter Wenning, Moses Kottler and Nita Spilhaus who were good friends with Gregoire’s father. The recurrent influences of the people in Gregoire’s life meant that he received no formal training and was mostly self-taught, which was within his father’s wishes. It was not long until he himself began to show a great aptitude for painting, his early works showing a great influence from Pieter Wenning. His first paintings were shown at the age of fourteen, followed soon after by his first solo exhibition at the age of sixteen. Read more.
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