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1916 Cape Town, South Africa - 1981 Thaba ’Nchu, Orange Free State, South Africa. Known for: Modernist figure and portrait painting, as well as linocuts.
Iris Ampenberger was born in Cape Town in 1916 and received her early art training in Port Elizabeth before continuing her studies in Johannesburg. She married the artist Stefan Ampenberger, and... Read full biography
Iris Ampenberger was born in Cape Town in 1916 and received her early art training in Port Elizabeth before continuing her studies in Johannesburg. She married the artist Stefan Ampenberger, and together the couple travelled throughout South Africa for seventeen years in a caravan, drawing,... Read full biography
Iris Ampenberger was born in Cape Town in 1916 and received her early art training in Port Elizabeth before continuing her studies in Johannesburg. She married the artist Stefan Ampenberger, and together the couple travelled throughout South Africa for seventeen years in a caravan, drawing, painting, and exhibiting as they moved from region to region. This long period of mobility shaped both artists’ practices and placed them within a wider network of South African painters working outside... Read full biography
Iris Ampenberger was born in Cape Town in 1916 and received her early art training in Port Elizabeth before continuing her studies in Johannesburg. She married the artist Stefan Ampenberger, and together the couple travelled throughout South Africa for seventeen years in a caravan, drawing, painting, and exhibiting as they moved from region to region. This long period of mobility shaped both artists’ practices and placed them within a wider network of South African painters working outside major urban centres. In the mid-1960s the Ampenbergers settled in Thaba ’Nchu in the Free State, where they became associated with the Bloemfontein Group, founded in 1958 by Father Frans Claerhout, Alexander and Marianne Podlashuc, Reneé le Roux, and... Read full biography
Iris Ampenberger was born in Cape Town in 1916 and received her early art training in Port Elizabeth before continuing her studies in Johannesburg. She married the artist Stefan Ampenberger, and together the couple travelled throughout South Africa for seventeen years in a caravan, drawing, painting, and exhibiting as they moved from region to region. This long period of mobility shaped both artists’ practices and placed them within a wider network of South African painters working outside major urban centres. In the mid-1960s the Ampenbergers settled in Thaba ’Nchu in the Free State, where they became associated with the Bloemfontein Group, founded in 1958 by Father Frans Claerhout, Alexander and Marianne Podlashuc, Reneé le Roux, and Eben van der Merwe. While her husband became known primarily for landscapes, Iris Ampenberger developed a distinct focus on portraiture and the... Read full biography