Dumbirds by Ulrich Schwanecke
Dumbirds by Ulrich Schwanecke
Pages: unpaged
Size: 250mm
Inscription: Signed and dated by the artist
Edition: One of 100 copies.
Condition: Near Fine
Place publication: Johannesburg, RSA
Publisher: Artist's Proof Studio
Exhibition 1996
Additional notes:
Colophon: "This is not a book but a series of original graphics. The accompanying words are pertaining thereto. The series is signed, numbered and limited to one hundred copies. Linocuts printed at The Artists Proof Studio. Letterpress text printed at The Artist’s Press. Binding by Hugh Berrow."
Ulrich Konrad Heinraich Valtin SCHWANECKE was born on 6th January, 1932, in Halberstadt (Harz), Germany. He emigrated to South Africa in 1952 as a mining recruit.
He visited SWA/now Namibia, for the first time in 1962, together with the artist Jan Buys. In 1965 and 1966, Ulrich Schwanecke and Durant Sihlali went jointly on landscape painting trips to SWA.
Until 1970, Ulrich Schwanecke painted mostly on the spot from nature.
Thereafter his work was done in the studio using reference material collected during hikes and safaris.
Ulrich Schwanecke died on 15th October, 2006, in Johannesburg
