Artists Birthdays from around the world
Christiaan Diedericks Born 13 February 1965 http://chrisdiedericks.co.za/about/ Fine Arts Cum Laude graduate from the University of Potchefstroom, Christiaan Diedericks has created an impressive body of work over the years. He went on to complete his [...]
Frans Claerhout 15 February 1919 – July 2006 http://nladesignvisual.wordpress.com/2013/05/19/father-frans-claerhout-1919-2006/ Born in Pittem, Belgium, Claerhout resided in South Africa from 1946. Best known for his bright colours and exaggerated depictions of people and donkeys. Claerhout spent [...]
Max Carl Friedrich Beckmann (February 12, 1884 – December 27, 1950) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Beckmann was a German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, and writer. Although he is classified as an Expressionist artist, he rejected both the term and [...]
John Ruskin Ruskin in 1863 8 February, 1819 - Died 20 January, 1900 (aged 80)m John Ruskin (8 February, 1819 – 20 January, 1900) was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, [...]
Franz Marc Born 08 February 1880 – 4 March 1916 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Marc Franz Moritz Wilhelm Marc (8 February 1880 – 4 March 1916)[1] was a German painter and printmaker, one of the key figures of German [...]
Claudette Schreuders Born 06 February 1973 https://www.straussart.co.za/artists/claudette-schreuders/3 Since graduating from the Michaelis School of Fine Art in 1998 with the Master’s degree show Family Tree, Claudette Schreuders has become recognised as one of South Africa’s [...]
Born 05 February 1953 https://www.straussart.co.za/artists/penny-siopis Penny Siopis is an important innovator with paint. Her formal experiments in the studio follow on Christo Coetzee's earlier trials in the late 1950s, and are a significant precursor to [...]
Norman Percevel Rockwell (February 3, 1894 – November 8, 1978) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Rockwell was an American painter and illustrator. His works have a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection of American culture. Rockwell [...]
Erik Laubscher South African Tulbagh - Died 22 March Cape Town 2013 Erik Laubscher was born in 1927 in Tulbagh, and grew up in Port Elizabeth. He showed an early interest in art and began [...]
Louis JaLouis Jansen van Vuuren The inseparability of art and life A personal narrative https://www.louisjansenvanvuuren.com/bio/ Louis Jansen van Vuuren was born in 1949 in Middleburg in the old Transvaal (Mpumalanga). He is descendant of Dutch [...]
