Wonderful Nils Anderson original watercolour (45x35cm) @ a LOW opening!! Good investment!!

Original watercolour painting, 45 x 35cm, by Nils Anderson (1897 - 1972) - framed. Andersen came to SA when his mariner father settled at Saldahna Bay in 1911. In 1914 his family went to Durban, and he studied engineering. Family pressures prevented an art career until he enrolled for art studies at the Durban Technical College.He also joined the NSA, becoming a Council member in 1929 and its President in 1937, 1946, 1949 and 1955.

His early work shows the quasi-Impressionist influence of the Durban artist Clement Seneque (1896 - 1930). His background made him a noted painter of dockyard and marine subjects. He travelled widely on painting trips, and was especially fond of the Drakensberg Mountains.

Large-scale commissions also occupied him, and he painted dioramas for the Durban Museum and murals for the Norwegian Hall and the Natal Chamber of Commerce. He held solo shows in all the major SA cities, and participated in the Contemporary South African Art exhibitions at the SANG in 1933, 1934 and 1936 -1938, as well as SASA exhibitions in Cape Town.

His later landscape work in watercolour sits well within the Roworthian tradition embraced by many SASA members. Berman's cutting conclusion on his work was that "only rarely was his competent brush engaged in more than pictorial reportage.

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