South Africa, Belgium. 1906 - 1977
Modernist painting, stained glass, teaching
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1935 Johannesburg, South Africa - 1988 Johannesburg, South Africa. Known for: Terra cotta symbolic figurative sculpture.
Kumalo's career began in 1952 in informal art classes organized by Cecil Skotnes at the Polly Street Art Center in Johannesburg, where Kumalo was later to teach. Recognizing his potential as a... Read full biography
Kumalo's career began in 1952 in informal art classes organized by Cecil Skotnes at the Polly Street Art Center in Johannesburg, where Kumalo was later to teach. Recognizing his potential as a sculptor, Skotnes encouraged him to model in clay and negotiated his first commission, for ceiling... Read full biography
Kumalo's career began in 1952 in informal art classes organized by Cecil Skotnes at the Polly Street Art Center in Johannesburg, where Kumalo was later to teach. Recognizing his potential as a sculptor, Skotnes encouraged him to model in clay and negotiated his first commission, for ceiling decorations and reliefs in St Peter Claver, Kroonstad (1958). Kumalo also gained important professional experience working with Edoardo Villa in the late 1950s. In 1956 he met the German connoisseur and... Read full biography
Kumalo's career began in 1952 in informal art classes organized by Cecil Skotnes at the Polly Street Art Center in Johannesburg, where Kumalo was later to teach. Recognizing his potential as a sculptor, Skotnes encouraged him to model in clay and negotiated his first commission, for ceiling decorations and reliefs in St Peter Claver, Kroonstad (1958). Kumalo also gained important professional experience working with Edoardo Villa in the late 1950s. In 1956 he met the German connoisseur and gallery owner Egon Guenther, who promoted his work by financing casting and by organizing Kumalo's first one-man exhibition at his gallery in Johannesburg in 1962, and exhibitions abroad thereafter. In 1963 Guenther also initiated the Amadlozi (Zulu:... Read full biography
Kumalo's career began in 1952 in informal art classes organized by Cecil Skotnes at the Polly Street Art Center in Johannesburg, where Kumalo was later to teach. Recognizing his potential as a sculptor, Skotnes encouraged him to model in clay and negotiated his first commission, for ceiling decorations and reliefs in St Peter Claver, Kroonstad (1958). Kumalo also gained important professional experience working with Edoardo Villa in the late 1950s. In 1956 he met the German connoisseur and gallery owner Egon Guenther, who promoted his work by financing casting and by organizing Kumalo's first one-man exhibition at his gallery in Johannesburg in 1962, and exhibitions abroad thereafter. In 1963 Guenther also initiated the Amadlozi (Zulu: 'spirit of our fathers') group, which included Kumalo, Cecil Skotnes, Edoardo Villa, Cecily Sash (b 1925) and Guiseppe... Read full biography
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South Africa, Africa. 1926 - 2009
Abstract figurative carved and painted wood panels, drawings
South Africa, England. 1920 - 2010
Primitive figure painting, teaching
New York, California / South Africa. Born 1949
Large scale painting, sculpture, printmaking, mixed media, wall hangings
South Africa. 1906 - 1982
Figure, landscape painting, abstraction, woodcuts
South Africa, Italy. 1915 - 2011
Modernist, abstract sculpture
South Africa. 1902 - 1985
Paintings
South Africa, England. 1911 - 1975
Abstract painting of elongated female figures, geometric images, sketches
South Africa. 1912 - 2001
Portrait, town-and landscape painting
South Africa. 1923 - 1980
Painting, sculpture, writing
South Africa. 1935 - 2007
Painting
South Africa, Denmark. 1929 - 2014
Modernist, African themed watercolor and gouache still life, landsape, dogs drawing
South Africa, Europe. 1869 - 1941
Impressionist figure, genre, landscape painting
South Africa. 1915 - 1996
Modernist figure, genre, landscape, interiors and still life painting, sculpture
South Africa, Spain. 1913 - 1994
Modernist landscape, figure, still life and genre painting
South Africa, Europe. 1886 - 1973
Expressionist, naive-sophisticated still life, portrait and landscape painting
South Africa. 1927 - 2013
Abstract panoramic view landscape painting, still life, mosaic murals
South Africa, Spain. 1929 - 2001
Painting, collage, assemblage
South Africa. Born 1972
Genre painting
South Africa. 1938 - 1971
Townlife genre painting, abstractions
Northern Cape / South Africa, Africa. 1924 - 1988
Abstracted landscapes depicting bushveld wildlife
South Africa, England. 1914 - 2007
Mural painting, mosaics, tapestries, and design.
South Africa. Born 1940
Painting, graphics, teaching
South Africa, Belgium. 1919 - 2006
Painting
South Africa, Europe. 1921 - 1995
Landscape, townscape, streetscene, still life painting, teaching, graphics
South Africa. 1900 - 1983
Still life, figure, landscape, African genre paintings
Netherlands, South Africa. 1867 - 1944
Still life, landscape, and portrait painting
South Africa. 1924 - 2012
Painting
South Africa. 1914 - 2010
Abstract painting, graphics
South Africa, Africa. 1853 - 1936
Naturalist landscape, mountain view and waterscape painting, wood engraving
South Africa, England. 1898 - 1986
Impasto portrait, still life, seascape and rocky landscape painting
South Africa, Austria. 1900 - 1975
Abstract figure, portrait, still life, nudes and landscape painting, architecture