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| B-0008106 | biography | David Goldblatt | 1930-2018 | ✓ |
| B-0122696 | biography | Ray Berman | 1941 | – |
| B-0008568 | biography | Justice Sfiso Mkame | 1963 | – |
| B-0008165 | biography | Robert Hodgins | 1920-2010 | ✓ |
| B-0008135 | biography | Thelma Gutsche | 1915-1984 | ✓ |
| B-0008789 | biography | Dr. Jacob Mfaniselwa Nhlapo | 1903-1957 | – |
| B-0008062 | biography | Dumile Feni | 1942-1991 | – |
| B-0093704 | biography | David Hartman | 1961 | – |
| B-0096897 | biography | Stanley Huette Uys | 1922-2014 | ✓ |
| B-0076350 | biography | Billy Paddock | – | – |
| B-0008398 | biography | Romeo Zamani Makhanya | 1959 | – |
| B-0008991 | biography | Jürgen Schadeberg | 1931-2020 | ✓ |
| B-0120698 | biography | Mohamed Ismail Dinat | 1937-2015 | – |
| B-0009239 | biography | Gisele Wulfsohn | 1957-2011 | ✓ |
| B-0008303 | biography | Lesley Lawson | 1952 | ✓ |
| B-0008880 | biography | Myron Peter | – | ✓ |
| B-0121724 | biography | Jo Ractliffe | 1961 | ✓ |
| B-0121549 | biography | Zanele Muholi | 1972 | – |
| B-0009102 | biography | Irma Stern | 1894-1966 | ✓ |
| B-0122542 | biography | Lefifi Tladi | 1949 | ✓ |
| B-0007806 | biography | Omar Badsha | 1945 | ✓ |
| A-0122663 | article | Arts and Cultural Organisations | 20 Jan 2017 | – |
| A-0098781 | article | Dumile Feni biography by Sophia Reuss | 23 Dec 2014 | – |
| A-0064250 | article | David Lurie | 4 Apr 2011 | – |
| A-0064732 | article | David Lurie | 4 Apr 2011 | – |
| A-0064744 | article | Juan Orrantia | 4 Apr 2011 | – |
| A-0064480 | article | Dave Robertson | 4 Apr 2011 | – |
| A-0064638 | article | Rafique Mayet | 4 Apr 2011 | – |
| A-0016835 | article | Message from the President, South African Society of Artists | 22 Mar 2011 | – |
| A-0099810 | article | Art South Africa Today exhibitions | 14 Sep 2015 | – |
BiographyDavid Goldblatt
David Goldblatt, one of South Africa’s most famous documentary photographers, is internationally acclaimed for his work. The grandson of Lithuanian-Jewish…
BiographyRay Berman
Born and bred in Johannesburg, Ray Berman left South Africa in 1966 to go into voluntary exile in Swaziland and has since become a national household name in…
BiographyJustice Sfiso Mkame
Justice Sfiso (called Sfiso) Mkame was born on 3 May 1963 in Durban. As a child Mkame drew on sand walls. In Standard 1 he did handicrafts and drawing at…
BiographyRobert Hodgins
"For me, it is very simple. The act of painting at a particular moment is able, for reasons I neither understands, nor even try to understand, to open up the…
BiographyThelma Gutsche
Thelma Gutsche was born in 1915 in Somerset West, Cape Province to Dr. And Mrs. J Gutsche. Gutsche did not attend formal schooling but received private…
BiographyDr. Jacob Mfaniselwa Nhlapo
Jacob Nhlapo was born in 1903 to Isaac Hulumeni and Catherina Maseko. He received primary schooling at his birthplace, Reitz, a town in North-East Orange Free…
BiographyDumile Feni
Zwelidumile Geelboi Mgxaji Mslaba “Dumile” Feni was born on 21 May 1942 in Worcester, Western Cape. His mother died when he was only five or six years old and…
BiographyDavid Hartman
Dave Hartman was born in 1961 in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape) where he grew up in an English speaking liberal home. His mother was born…
BiographyStanley Huette Uys
Stanley Huette Uys was born on 27 April 1922, in Coalbrook, Orange Free State (now Free State Province). His parents, Dirk and Francina, were members of the…
BiographyBilly Paddock
Billy Paddock, of Irish extraction, grew up in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) in the 1950s. He attended Glenwood High School in Durban where he excelled at…
BiographyRomeo Zamani Makhanya
Zamani Romeo Makhanya was born in Durban, 1959. He experienced the trauma of losing his brothers one after the other to genetic heart-related conditions. The…
BiographyJürgen Schadeberg
Jurgen Schadeberg was born in Berlin, Germany on 18 March 1931. He was raised by his mother, Rosemarie, the only child in a single-parent family of limited…
BiographyMohamed Ismail Dinat
Early Years and Politicisation Mohamed Ismail (‘Issy’) Dinat was born on 14 October 1937 in Krugersdorp. As a child, Dinat would often attend meetings with…
BiographyGisele Wulfsohn
Gisèle Wulfsohn was a freelance photographer specialising in portraiture, education, health and gender issues. Gisèle studied Graphic Fine Art at the…
BiographyLesley Lawson
One of the founding members of Afrapix, Lesley Lawson was born in Durban in 1952. She matriculated from Durban Girls College and attended the University of…
BiographyMyron Peter
Myron Peter was born in 1954 in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal - KZN). He studied at the University of Durban-Westville (UDW) [now University of KwaZulu…
BiographyJo Ractliffe
This biography was written by SAHO in collaboration with Artthrob MODUS OPERANDI Jo Ractliffe is a documentary photographer who captures the traces of…
BiographyZanele Muholi
This biography was written by Artthrob in collaboration with SAHO. Zanele Muholi is a photographer and visual activist based in Johannesburg. Muholi’s work…
BiographyIrma Stern
Irma Stern was born in 1894 in Schweizer-Reneke, Transvaal. She studied in Weimar and Berlin and had her inaugural exhibition in Berlin in 1919. On her return…
BiographyLefifi Tladi
The thinker, poet, and painter, Lefifi Tladi, was born in 1949 in the culturally vibrant township of Lady Selborne in Pretoria, Transvaal Province (now Gauteng…
BiographyOmar Badsha
Omar Badsha was born in Durban, Natal (now known as KwaZulu-Natal) in June 1945. He grew up in a working-class Indian Muslim family, which is part of the…
ArticleArts and Cultural Organisations
South Africa History Online has embarked, with the support of the NIHSS, on researching the role of the arts under apartheid. We hope that our work will…
Dumile Feni biography by Sophia Reuss
Zwelidumile Geelboi Mgxaji Mslaba “Dumile” Feni was born on 21 May 1942 in the small town of Withuis in Worcester, Cape Province. While his date of birth…
David Lurie
Born: Cape Town, 1951. Has a BA Honours degree from the University of Cape Town. He is a self taught photographer. Lurie has held over 20 exhibitions locally…
David Lurie
Born: Cape Town, 1951. Has a BA Honours degree from the University of Cape Town. He is a self taught photographer. Lurie has held over 20 exhibitions locally…
Juan Orrantia
Born 1975 (Columbia). Juan Orrantia is a visual anthropologist whose photographic work explores themes of intimacy and banality in relation to aftermath, war…
Dave Robertson
I am a self-taught, fine art photographer based in Cape Town. My work is primarily a form of social commentary. I am best known for a series of expressionist,…
Rafique Mayet
Rafique (Rafs) Mayet was born in 1955 in Durban, Natal (now Kwazulu-Natal). Mayet matriculated in Durban and worked at various jobs since completing school,…
Message from the President, South African Society of Artists
The South African Society of Artists celebrated its centenary on 26 September 2002 and on 9 December we mark the centenary of its first exhibition held at Cape…
ArticleArt South Africa Today exhibitions
In May 1963, the Cape Times announced the launch of ‘a national art exhibition, open to South African artists of all races’. The first iteration of Art South…