HAROLD VOIGT `RECENT PAINTINGS 2011-2013`

HAROLD VOIGT (1939-2022) "RECENT PAINTINGS 2011-2013", ARTIST CATOGUE OF WORKS IN THE PERIOD, IN EXCELLENT CONDITION

Harold Voigt was born in 1939 and educated in Johannesburg, South Africa. He studied architecture before embarking on a brief career in advertising and film making. In 1971 he decide to make paintings his full-time profession. He designed and built a home on a mountain in the eastern Lowveld of the Mpumalanga Province of South Africa, where he lived and worked with his wife, Leigh, also an artist. He participated in group exhibitions nationally and internationally, and held several one-person exhibitions, most of them at Everard Read.

A painter of landscapes, abstract works and the human figure, Voigt concentrated on textural qualities, light and colour derived from the African Landscape. He used a wide range of mixed-media techniques, incorporating sand, marble dust, wax and oil. From 1974, he painted a series entitled "The Animal in Africa"; from 1975-79 "The African Landscape" ; from 1986 "The Female Figure" and from 1986 abstract work derived from the colours and textures of Africa.

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