Egyptian, 20th century, female.
Born 1929.
Engraver.
Mariam Abdel Aleem studied at the institute of art in 1954, and also studied engraving and printing in the USA. She was subsequently appointed professor at Alexandria's faculty of fine art.
She has taken part in a number of important group exhibitions, including the Biennale of engraving at Ljubljana and ...
South African, 20th–21st century, male.
Born 23 June 1929, in Johannesburg; died 31 December 2006, in London.
Painter, printmaker, draughtsman.
Albert Adams moved to Cape Town with his mother and sister at the age of four. After high school he studied at Hewat College, and attended art classes with Peter Clarke; he was refused entrance to the Michaelis School of Fine Art because of the colour of his skin....
Algerian, 20th century, male.
Active in France since 1965.
Born 1 June 1934, in Algiers.
Painter, engraver. Urban landscapes.
Mohamed Aksouh began work as a professional locksmith in 1949, and it was not until 1959 that he started sculpting and painting. He moved to Paris in ...
Tunisian, 20th century, male.
Active in France since 1964.
Painter, engraver. Figure compositions, genre scenes, scenes with figures. Theatre decoration, designs for stained glass and for tapestries.
Mohamed Amich paints pictures of a Tunisia characterised by its traditions, festivals and crafts. Using a particularly wealthy range of colours, he construes and composes his works according to principal sketches and spatial structures, using a systematic approach stemming from Cubism via the teaching or example of André Lhote....
Egyptian, 20th century, male.
Born 1923, in Tantah.
Engraver.
Kamal Amin studied engraving at the arts faculty in Cairo, after which he spent four years in Italy and France developing his skills. He was eventually appointed as assistant in the engraving department in which he had studied....
Tunisian, 20th century, male.
Active in France from 1952.
Born 10 October 1936.
Painter, engraver.
Ouanès Amor went to live in France at the age of 16. From 1960, he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris under Robert Chastel. He became Gustave Singier's assistant in ...
French painter, lithographer and writer. The Jewish intellectual milieu in which he grew up led to his interest in philosophy and religion, and from 1930 to 1934 he studied philosophy at the Sorbonne. While in Paris, however, he was confronted with modern painting for the first time, and his interest in poetry was awakened. Recognizing a means of expressing his interest in magical phenomena, in ...
British, 19th century, male.
Active in South Africa.
Born 1820, in King’s Lynn (Norfolk), England; died 1875, in Durban, South Africa.
Painter (oils, watercolours), printmaker (etching), draughtsman, explorer, cartographer, writer. Landscapes, marine and seascapes, portraits, natural history and ethnographic subjects.
Thomas Baines arrived at the Cape in ...
Italian draughtsman and printmaker . He showed early artistic promise and was apprenticed to Giuseppe Civoli (1705–78), a Bolognese painter and professor of architecture at the Accademia Clementina in Bologna. As a student he won the gold medal for architectural design in an open competition at Parma in ...
He trained as an art teacher in Johannesburg (1929–32), and his long career culminated in his appointment to the Chair of Fine Arts at the University of South Africa (UNISA), Pretoria (1964–71). In the 1930s he was among the first to recognize the aesthetic value of southern African rock art, proclaiming his empathy in several books; he replaced his own former realist style with motifs derived from ancient petroglyphs and paintings, as in ...
South African, 20th century, male.
Born 1906, in Somerset East, Eastern Cape; died 1982, in Port Shepstone, Natal (KwaZulu-Natal).
Painter, watercolourist, draughtsman, printmaker, Collage, installations, performance art.
Walter Whall Battiss was raised in the Orange Free State (Free State), where he was introduced to rock art by William Fowler. He worked in the Rustenburg Magistrate’s Office (...
Tunisian, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 13 April 1946, in Tunis.
Painter, engraver.
Nouvelle Figuration.
After obtaining his diploma from the school of fine arts in Tunis in 1966, Ben Meftah went on to study engraving at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1966 to 1971...
Algerian, 20th century, male.
Active in France since 1953.
Born 1931, in Mestghanem.
Painter, engraver, illustrator, painter (gouache), watercolourist. Designs for tapestries.
Abdallah Benanteur began his artistic studies at the school of fine art in Oran, completing them at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris. He settled in Paris in 1953. From 1972 to 1976, he taught in the architecture department of the École des Beaux-Arts and at the École des Arts Décoratifs in Paris....
Algerian, 20th century, male.
Active since 1982 active in France.
Sculptor, painter, engraver.
From 1978 to 1982 he studied at the school of fine arts in Algiers, where he graduated in visual communications. He then went on to study at the Institut d'Arts Visuels in Orléans ...
South African, 20th–21st century, male.
Born 1956, in Kitwe, Zambia.
Painter, sculptor, printmaker, video artist, land artist, watercolourist, curator.
Clive van den Berg came to South Africa in 1966, and trained at the University of Natal. He taught fine arts at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg ...
South African, 20th century, female.
Born 4 January 1960, in Johannesburg (Gauteng Province).
Printmaker, educator, activist.
Kim Berman was born and works in Johannesburg, South Africa. After receiving her BA from the University of the Witwatersrand in 1981, she moved to Boston, where she was active in the anti-apartheid movement. In ...
South African, 20th–21st century, male.
Born 1974, in Pretoria.
Sculptor, printmaker, installation artist.
Wim Botha graduated from the University of Pretoria with a BA (Visual Art) in 1996, and lives in Cape Town. His work is usually controversial because of its iconoclastic nature, for example, he deconstructed the typical style of well-known South African artist J.H. Pierneef and of classical portrait busts, and he uses recycled Bibles to sculpt Christ figures. He has received a number of prestigious awards, including the first Tollman Award in ...
Tunisian, 20th – 21st century, female.
Active in France from 1972.
Born 30 May 1960, in Tunis.
Painter, engraver.
From 1980 to 1985 Meriem Bouderbala studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Aix en Provence. She lives and works in Nice. Her canvases are filled with wide bands of dark colour intersected by lighter bands. She uses greys, blue-greys, beiges and blacks. The material lets itself go from one stroke to another, evoking the weather, the dust, the sand, the light, the grain of the rock....
British, 19th century, male.
Active in South Africa.
Born 1812, in Hertfordshire, England; died 1869, in London.
Painter (watercolour and oil), lithographer, draughtsman (chalk). Town scenes; landscapes, seascapes.
Thomas Bowler arrived at the Cape in 1834 with the newly appointed Royal Astronomer Thomas McClear. He tutored the children of the Commander of Robben Island ...
South African, 20th–21st century, female.
Active in Germany.
Born 29 January 1972, in Johannesburg.
Video artist, photographer, photomontage artist, printmaker, performance artist.
Appropriation Art.
After completing her undergraduate fine art studies at the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg) in 1993, Candice Breitz travelled to the United States on a Fulbright scholarship. She completed a Master’s degree at the University of Chicago in ...
