Anna Vorster, a biography by Kruger, Le Riche
Collectors Edition. Limited to 1000 Copies. This is number 304.
Anna Vorster, a biography by Kruger, Le Riche
Hardcover, ISBN 9780869844236
Publisher: CUM Books, 1983
Used - Very Good +.Book and DJ very good. Protected with Cellophane.
Short Biography
- 1928 Born at Hartebeesfontein, Transvaal.
- 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 Andrá L’hore in Paris.
- 1955–1956 Obtains Education Diploma at the UOFS.
- 1960 Undertake 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. [Anna Vorster in die Vrystaat, 1985. 11]
- 1988–1990 The artist gets very sick, a few works follow and she eventually dies in Pretoria on 15 April 1990.
