​Contemporary South African Art

BORN: Hartebeesfontein, Transvaal, South Africa 1928

DIED: Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa, 1990.

 

Training & Biography:

- 1948 –1952 Student at the University of the Witwatersrand.

- 1952 Obtains Fine Arts Degree. Wins a two-year post-graduate bursary. 

- 1952–1953 Slade School of Arts, London.

- 1953–1954 Studies at the Academy Andre L’hote in Paris.1955–1956 Obtains Education

   Diploma at the UOFS. 

- 1960 - Undertakes study tours through Israel, Turkey and Greece.

- 1962 - Lecturer at the Art School of the Johannesburg Technical College. Linear

  elements are prominent in her semi-abstract style. Also do studies of landscapes and

  rock formations.

- 1963–1964 - Works in Greece, Rome and Paris. Translates Harold Jeppe’s “S.A.

  Artists” into Afrikaans. 

- 1965 Paints with Maud Sumner in the Namib Desert. 

- 1967 Appointed as lecturer in Fine Arts at UNISA, but withdraw herself from formal

  education to concentrate on her own work. 

- 1970 After her marriage, she moves to Cape Town. She is strongly attracted to the

  coastal scenes and harbour subject. She moves towards a more figurative approach .

  with series of paintings of hunts, Boland landscapes and figure studies.

- 1978 Moves back to Pretoria. Several exhibitions follow.

- 1988–1990 The artist falls very ill, a few works follow and she dies in Pretoria on 15  

  April 1990.

 

 

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS: 

- 1952 “Association of International Artists” – Gallery, London. 

- 1953 Exhibition of Statebond Art. 

- 1956 Fourth yearly exhibition of South African Art. 

- 1960: Fourth yearly exhibition of South African Art. 

- 1955–1962 Exhibitions in Cape Town, Pretoria, Johannesburg and Bloemfontein. 

- 1963 São Paulo Biennale. 

- 1964 Women’s International Art Club, London. South Africa Arts Association, Pretoria.

  Rembrandt exhibition. Fourth yearly exhibition of South African Art. Transvaal Academy   of art. 

- 1965 Wolpe gallery. Cape Town. South African National gallery, Cape Town. National

  Gallery, Athens. Pretoria Art Museum.

- One-man show, 1966 Venice Biennale. 

- 1969 5 yearly exhibition of South African Art. 

- 1970 SA Arts association, Pretoria. 

- 1971Republic Festival, Cape Town. 

- 1973 Die Kunskamer, Cape Town. 

- 1974 SA Associations of Arts, Pretoria. 

- 1977 SA Associations of Arts, Pretoria. 

- 1979 Hoffer Gallery, Pretoria.1981 Republic Festival, Durban. Hoffer Gallery, Pretoria. 

- 1982 SA Association of Arts, Belville Art Gallery. 

- 1983 Pretoria Artists, Pretoria Art Museum. 

- 1983 Retrospective exhibition1953 – 1983. Rand Afrikaans University. [Anna Vorster.

  RAU. 1983]

 

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS: 

- Africana Museum. Johannesburg, South Africa. Durban Art Gallery, KwaZulu-Natal.

  Hester Rupert Museum, Graaff-Reinet. S.A. National Art Gallery, Cape Town.

  Potchefstroom Museum. Pretoria Art Museum. Johannesburg Art Gallery. William

  Humphreys Art Gallery, Kimberley. UNISA. Embassies in Bonn, São Paulo and

  Washington.

 

REFERENCES:

Oglivie, Grania & Graff, Caroll,The Dictionary of South African Painters and Sculptors, Everard Read, Johannesburg, 1988.

Berman, Esme, Art and Artists of South Africa, AA Balkema, Cape Town, 1983.

 

Ref:  http://wallsaart.co.za/artists/anna-vorster/