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1915 Netherlands - 1977. Known for: Abstract figurative painting.
Born in the Netherlands, Charles Gassner (1915-1977) was a painter of both abstract and figurative subjects.? He arrived in South Africa in 1948 after studying art in The Hague and Berlin. In the... Read full biography
Born in the Netherlands, Charles Gassner (1915-1977) was a painter of both abstract and figurative subjects.? He arrived in South Africa in 1948 after studying art in The Hague and Berlin. In the early 1950s, he spent three years? in Australia before returning to South Africa. In these early years... Read full biography
Born in the Netherlands, Charles Gassner (1915-1977) was a painter of both abstract and figurative subjects.? He arrived in South Africa in 1948 after studying art in The Hague and Berlin. In the early 1950s, he spent three years? in Australia before returning to South Africa. In these early years Gassner was mainly a painter of figures within interiors using oil as his preferred medium. By the end of the 1950s, he was living in London and spent some time as a tutor at Camberwell. By this time... Read full biography
Born in the Netherlands, Charles Gassner (1915-1977) was a painter of both abstract and figurative subjects.? He arrived in South Africa in 1948 after studying art in The Hague and Berlin. In the early 1950s, he spent three years? in Australia before returning to South Africa. In these early years Gassner was mainly a painter of figures within interiors using oil as his preferred medium. By the end of the 1950s, he was living in London and spent some time as a tutor at Camberwell. By this time Gassner’s work was predominately, but not exclusively, abstract. Thereafter he returned to South Africa, ?but a body of his work remained in the UK. Gassner was one of a group of talented artists working in the very distinctive South African school... Read full biography
Born in the Netherlands, Charles Gassner (1915-1977) was a painter of both abstract and figurative subjects.? He arrived in South Africa in 1948 after studying art in The Hague and Berlin. In the early 1950s, he spent three years? in Australia before returning to South Africa. In these early years Gassner was mainly a painter of figures within interiors using oil as his preferred medium. By the end of the 1950s, he was living in London and spent some time as a tutor at Camberwell. By this time Gassner’s work was predominately, but not exclusively, abstract. Thereafter he returned to South Africa, ?but a body of his work remained in the UK. Gassner was one of a group of talented artists working in the very distinctive South African school of representational abstraction, during what has become termed as the Isolation Years. The work of South African abstract artists... Read full biography
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Born in the Netherlands, Charles Gassner (1915-1977) was a painter of both abstract and figurative subjects.? He arrived in South Africa in 1948 after studying art in The Hague and Berlin. In the early 1950s, he spent three years? in Australia before returning to South Africa.
In these early years Gassner was mainly a painter of figures within interiors using oil as his preferred medium. By the end of the 1950s, he was living in London and spent some time as a tutor at Camberwell. By this time Gassner’s work was predominately, but not exclusively, abstract. Thereafter he returned to South Africa, ?but a body of his work remained in the UK.
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