Orange Toucan with red bachground

Signed and numbered limited edition (one of only 65)

Dated '74   /   number 16/65

Size (excl frame): 42 x 31 cm (still in old 1970s frame)

Fred Schimmel

1928 - 2010 Amsterdam, Holland

Fred Schimmel emigrated to South Africa from Holland in 1948. Throughout his prolific career of more than five decades, Schimmel’s work testifies to masterly techniques and an intense engagement with material while crossing the boundaries of genre and style. His rich and varied artistic output is evidence of his versatility as painter, graphic artist, and designer.

During the 1960’s, Fred Schimmel was one of the most notable hard-edge abstract artists in South Africa and his interpretations of the South African landscape remain unique. He is well-known for his expressive figurative works, silk-screens, calligraphic abstractions, handmade paper drawings as well as his late experimental ‘carborundum’ prints. Fred Schimmel taught voluntarily at The Polly Street Art Centre in Johannesburg. In 1971 he started the Graphics Club of South Africa, collaborating with many artists, amongst others Walter Battiss, Judith Mason, Lucky Sibiya, Cecil Skotnes and Herman van Nazareth.

Schimmel’s work continues to characterize twentieth century modernist abstract art in South Africa.