Louis Steyn (1939-present) Unframed. Measures 42x60cm. Shipping R40.
Louis STEYN, master batik artist, in 1967
Louis STEYN was born in Pretoria 1934, he grew up in the Kruger National Park where his father was a game warden; he was educated in Pretoria and studied at the Pretoria Art School under Robert Hodgins and Esias Bosch.
His close association with wild life gave him an intimate knowledge of the subject matter of his work, of insects, plants, fish, animals and abstract patterns of nature.
Louis Steyn worked at Marble Hall at first, later in Pretoria.
He held his first one-man exhibition at Gallery 101, Johannesburg, in 1961. By 1967, he had held 10 one-man exhibitions of batik tapestries in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Durban and Cape Town, by 1975 he had held 31 one-man exhibitions throughout South Africa and one in New York.
Public commissions include:
Standard Bank of SA Ltd., Durban - 7m x 3m
Provincial Administration Building, Pretoria - 6 panels each 3m x 1.5 m
National Zoo and Aquarium, Pretoria
Transvaal Museum, Pretoria
South African National War Memorial, Delville Wood
Museum tours
38 of his batik works toured Canada under the sponsorship of The Art Gallery, Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland, during 1967/1968. Another similar exhibition toured Canadian museums again in 1969.
Museum Collections
Oliewenhuis Art Museum, Bloemfontein
SA Association of Arts, Cape Town - July, 1962
Gallery 101, Johannesburg - 11th May + 30th November, 1964
Walter Schwitter Gallery, Pretoria - 1st June, 1966
Gallery 101, Johannesburg - 25th November, 1967
Canadian touring exhibition through museums - November 1967/June 1968
Gallery 101, Johannesburg - 4th November, 1968
SA Association of Arts, Pretoria - 4th September, 1973
Gallery 101, Johannesburg - 15th October, 1975
Hoffer Art Gallery, Pretoria - 29th August, 1978
Gallery 21 Fox St Johannesburg - 27th March, 1979
Nedbank gallery Fox St Johannesburg - 18th February, 1983
