Eben LEIBBRANDT
1915-2007
Graphics, Paintings, Mosaics, Sculptures
Eben Leibbrandt at his etching press in 1962
Brief Curriculum
1915 Graaff-Reinet, born on 31st January - educated at Grey College, Bloemfontein and Volkskool, Potchefstroom
1937-1940 Studied under Eric Byrd at the Wits Technical Art School, Johannesburg (NATC); 1953-1955 studied at the Central School of Art, London (sculpture)
1958 Lidchi Gallery, Johannesburg - first solo show
1962 SA Association of Arts, Pretoria - solo show
1962 Participated in "Art and Religion" competition at Gallery 101, Johannesburg (Honorary Mention) (February)
1962 Gallery 101, Johannesburg - solo show (5th August)
1963 Senior Art Master at the Forest High School, Johannesburg
1963 São Paulo Biennale - included with graphics in South African entry
1963 Participated in "Arbeid - Work" competition at Gallery 101, Johannesburg (3rd prize) (March)
1963-1965 Chelsea School of Art, London - further studies of graphic techniques
1964 Redfern Gallery, London - included in Summer Exhibition with two paintings
1964 Interpretation Gallery, London - solo show
1966 Adler Fielding Galleries, Johannesburg - solo show of graphics - opened by Cecily Sash on 1st March, 1966
1966 Republic Festival Exhibition, Pretoria
1966 15th Transvaal Academy, Johannesburg - Library Gardens and Selborne Hall (4 sculptures)
1966 Venice Biennale, Venice - included with graphics in South African entry
1969 Gallery 101, Johannesburg "Top South African Artists" (opened by Prof. Ernst van Heerden, 10th February 1969)
1969 S.A. Association of arts, Pretoria - solo show (graphics) (6th June)
1972 Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg - solo show (sculptures)
1970-1974 taught at Johannesburg Technical College
1975 departed for Spain, settling near Barcelona
1977-1982 back in South Africa - no exhibitions held
Returned to Spain - in 1986 he lived in Lloret de Mar, Girona
2007 died at Graaff-Reinet on 22nd October, 2007
Included in South African Graphic Art touring exhibitions to: Canada - 1966; Belgium, Holland, Germany - 1970; Italy - 1972
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Commissions for sculptures received from:
Goudstad Training College, Johannesburg - 1967; South African Government for a sculpture at Jan Smuts International Airport - 1971.
Other commissions included a life-size sculpture for the Klerksdorp Municipality, mosaic murals for Volkskas in Kimberley, Port Elizabeth, Pretoria, a mural painting for Volkskas in Nigel and another commission for White River.
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Works in Public Museums include:
SA National Gallery, Cape Town
Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg
Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria
King George VI Gallery, East London
The Hester Rupert Art Museum, Graaff-Reinet
UNISA, Pretoria
Sandton Municipal Art Gallery, Sandton
Pietersburg Art Gallery, Polokwane
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Eben was married to Polly - she was manageress of the street level gallery of Gallery 101, Rand Central, Johannesburg for a while, after it opened in September, 1965.
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Bibliography:
Lantern, Pretoria Vol. XI, No. 3, March, 1962 "Die Grafiese Kunste" (Dr Albert J. Werth), pp. 20-31, ill.
"South African Artists 1900-1962" (Afrikaanse Pers-Boekhandel) (Harold Jeppe), 1963, p. 54, ill.
"Contemporaries - Tydgenote 1963", S.A. Association of Arts, Pretoria, cat.
"Kuns - Art": Republic Festival May 1966 Art Exhibitions, S.A. Association of Arts, Pretoria, cat.
"15th Transvaal Academy of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture", Johannesburg - ill. p. 23
Lantern, Pretoria Vol. XVI, No. 1, September 1966 "Die Grafiese Werk van Eben Leibbrandt" (Frieda Harmsen), pp. 14-21, ill.
"Twentieth Century South African Art" (Human & Rousseau, Cape Town) (1966), p. 105, fig. 77, ill.
"De Arte" (UNISA) No. 1, May 1967 - ill. 7
"Century of South African Art 1869-1969" (cat. of exhibition organised by Eljira Solomon for Lions International, Johannesburg - cat. 206/7)
"Eben Leibbrandt" (Wim Blom), 1972 - ISBN 0 620 00196 8, ill. cat.
"South African Graphic Art and its techniques" (F.L. Alexander) (Human & Rousseau, Cape Town), 1974, ill. p. 165
"Art & Artists of South Africa" (Berman) (Balkema) (1983), pp. 257/258, 406, ill.
"Images of Metal" (Rankin) (Witwatersrand University Press), 1994, listed pp. 150, 175
"Printmaking in a transforming South Africa" (Hobbs/Rankin) (David Philip), 1997, listed
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illustrated in "Eben Leibbrandt" (Wim Blom), 1972 - ISBN 0 620 00196 8 catalogue
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