Hermann Niebuhr - Artist Info

About Hermann Niebuhr

  • Biography

    Hermann Niebuhr, born in Johannesburg in 1972, is a South African artist known for his unique approach to portraiture. He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Rhodes University in 1993 and co-founded the Lilian Road Studios in Fordsburg. In 2020, he relocated to De Rust in the Klein Karoo, where he currently works as a full-time artist. Niebuhr's recent series features portraits of notable individuals created by documenting a stack of books that represent the sitter's intellectual identity.

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