The Johannesburg Art Scene from the 60's to the 90's

 

Gallery 101 Rand Central Johannesburg

Exhibitions from 1961 to 1967

 


 

Gallery 101 Rand Central Johannesburg from 1961 to 1967

 

For research purposes, we have highlighted the name of black artists, to show that they were already included by leading galleries as from the early 60's.

 

1961

"Coromandel" 1961 by Ernst DE JONG

Ernst DE JONG "Coromandel" 1961 gold leaf + mixed media painting on board - 61x61 cm

05/04

Opening of Gallery 101 by the Hon. Justice JF (Kowie) Marais - paintings by Jan BUYS

26/04

Louis STEYN - batiks

16/05

5 artists: Lionel ABRAMS, Zoltan BORBEREKI, Sydney GOLDBLATT, Dirk MEERKOTTER, Ronald MYLCHREEST - opened by H.R. Benecke

June

Barbara GREIG - ceramics

12/06

Daniel MIEDZINSKI

26/06

Group Exhibition: 8 artists: Jan BUYS, Herbert COETZEE, Barbara GREIG, Frank HARLING, Otto KLAR, Herman WALD + John HLATYWAYO + Ruy BASTOS (drawings) - opened by Lorenz Schultz

11/07

Johannes MEINTJES - opened by Jennifer Gray

24/07

Rose-Marie LACONTE

mid-August

Tibetan Tankas - 21 prints (Small Gallery)

21/08

Phoebe HEUNIS

August

Armando BALDINELLI

05/09

Ernst DE JONG + Robert HODGINS - opened by Monty Sack

September

Erik LAUBSCHER

02/10

Ruy Calçada BASTOS - opened by C.H. Arkwright

30/10

Zoltan BORBEREKI + Elizabeth SEBÖK

15/11

Zakkie ELOFF - opened by W. van Heerden

Nov/December

Marcel PIRE - informal presentation of his paintings in room 105: Congo + South Africa

 


 

1962

The "Martyr" triptych, 1962 by Julius Sher - third prize in "Art & Religion" competition - Gallery 101 in 1962 - Coll. Schlesinger Organisation

 

The "Martyr" triptych 1962 by Julius SHER

Coll. Schlesinger Organisation

 

14/01

The TINTORETTO cartoon "The Miracle of San Marco" - from the Galvagni collection, now in Italy

05/02

Pearl COHEN + Sylvia FREEDMAN

26/02

"Art and Religion" - The Gallery 101-U.A.T. 1962 Scholarship

The winners were: Zoltan BORBEREKI, Jack HEATH, Julius SHER
Honorary mentions: Pranas DOMSAITIS, Eben LEIBBRANDT, Louis STEYN, Anton VOORVELT
26/03 Claude VAN LINGEN - gouaches and oil paintings - opened by Arthur Goldreich

09/04

Irma STERN: Retrospective of Graphic Art - 101 works

25/04

Maggie LAUBSER - opened by Dr P.J. Meyer

09/05

Nel ERASMUS - tempera and drawings

May

Alex WAGNER - opened by Prof. I. Gordon

29/05

Zoltan BORBEREKI

18/06

First National Graphic Week (Brian Bradshaw, Cecil Higgs, May Hillhouse, Alfred Krenz, Irma Stern, Lionel Abrams, Blumé Amoils, Ruy Bastos, Nina Campbell-Quine, Ernst de Jong, Zachie Eloff, Arthur Goldreich, Eben Leibbrandt, Johannes Meintjes, Harold Rubin, Rhona Stern, Gordon Vorster, Jack Heath, Sidney Goldblatt) - opened by Esmé Berman

18/06

Ruy Calçada BASTOS

June

Gerda VON MALTITZ

10/07

Johannes MEINTJES - opened by Baroness E. von Reibnitz

23/07

Harold RUBIN

31/07

Ernst DE JONG - opened by Arthur Goldreich

05/08

Eben LEIBBRANDT

22/08

Marjorie WALLACE

04/09

Eric BYRD

07/09

Giorgio PAGI

17/09

Zakkie ELOFF + Renée VAN ZYL - (paintings and graphic art) - opened by Mrs R.E. Albrechts

01/10

George JAHOLKOWSKI

Oct.

Group Show - Pretoria artists

15/10

Brian BRADSHAW

29/10

Geoffrey T CHARLESWORTH - opened by Dr S.B. Sachs

Nov.

Jack HEATH - drawings

12/11

Nerine DESMOND - Retrospective 1947-1962

26/11

May HILLHOUSE - paintings and graphics - opened by J. Lewsen

06/12

Louis STEYN

Dec.

Marie-Hélène ALBRECHT (ceramics)

 


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1963

Prof. Brian Bradshaw exhibiting his paintings in 1963

Prof. Brian Bradshaw presenting his exhibition of paintings at Gallery 101 in 1963

04/02

Johannesburg Society of Artists - opened by Diane Todd

18/03

Victor IVANOFF

March

"Arbeid-Work" - The Gallery 101-U.A.T. 1963 Competition 

The winners were: Julius SHER, Judith MASON, Johannes Petro VAN DER WALT, Eben LEIBBRANDT

Honorary mentions: Jan DINGEMANS, Eben LEIBBRANDT, Lucas SITHOLE, Andrew VERSTER, Anton VOORVELT, Thelma WISE

01/04

Heidi HERZOG - opened by Peter Eliastam

29/04

Daniel SWART

May

Julius SHER

06/05

Otto KLAR - 17 abstract paintings - opened by Mr Gideon Roos

03/06

Hennie POTGIETER - sculptures - opened by Gideon Roos

15/07

Frans OERDER Estate - Part I.

05/08

Johannes MEINTJES (Retrospective of Paintings 1943-1963)  - opened by Hermien Domisse

28/08

Konnie ZANDER - Namibia

16/09

Nell KAYE

15/10

Cecil HIGGS

29/10

Brian BRADSHAW

04/11

First South African Exhibition by 28 contemporary graphic artists from PORTUGAL - opened by Antonio Braz

11/11

"Man / 4 Images" (Julius Sher, Ronald Brent, Stan Elliott, John Rowe - paintings and sculpture) - opened by Julian Beinart

28/11

Marie-Hélène ALBRECHT (ceramics) + Thea SOMMERLATTE (tapestries)

09/12

Louis STEYN

  


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1964

Herzog Heidi, Swiss artist from Basel, preparing her exhibition of pastels and oils at Gallery 101 in 1964

Heidi Herzog in 1964

09/01

Judith MASON

24/02

Marshall BARON - Zimbabwe

09/03

Eduard LADAN

23/3

Frans OERDER Estate - Part II.

20/04

Thelma WISE

04/05

MOÇAMBIQUE "Some of its artistic aspects": A. Heleno, A. Gouveia, Dugos, Garizo, Joâo Paulo, Jorge Mealha, Valente MALANGATANA, Zé Júlio, A. Cabral, Maria Alice

11/05

Louis STEYN

14/05

Shulamith WITTENBERG-MILLER - (Women of the Bible) - copper etchings

24/06

7 artists from KATANGA - (30 works by past students of the Romain Desfosses School, including PIRI-PIRI)

06/07

Johannes MEINTJES

27/07

Evie LEWIN Estate

03/08

Ulrich SCHWANECKE

10/08

DAG (Desmond GREIG) - ceramic sculpture + Harald PAGER - photographs

17/08

Otto KLAR - 12 abstract paintings - opened by Sidney Abramowitch

31/08

Heidi HERZOG - opened by Prof. J.E. Kerrich

15/09

Gordon VORSTER

05/10 

Marc GLASER

12/10

Brian BRADSHAW

17/10

Diederick DÜRING

26/10

Ernst DE JONG - opened by Monty Sack

22/11

GRAHAMSTOWN GROUP - 13 artists

30/11

Louis STEYN

 


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1965

"The She Wolf" 1965 by Judith Mason in the Pretoria Art Museum

"The She Wolf", 1965 - Judith Mason - originally priv. coll. F.F. Haenggi, later acq. by Pretoria Art Museum

January

Cape Artists - Group Show incl. sculptures by George Jaholkowski, Lippy Lipshitz

15/02

Gordon VORSTER

08/03

Fred SCHIMMEL

22/03

Christo COETZEE (m/media drawings) + Cecily SASH (graphics)

20/04

Arlene SEGAL

03/05

Thelma CHAIT

17/05

Karin JAROSZYNSKA

01/06

Judith MASON

14/06

Johan VAN HEERDEN

28/06

Anna VORSTER - Paintings and drawings of Greece

08/07

John HERITAGE - United Kingdom

July

Ismail SOLKER

August

Karl DE HAAN - photographs from a fashion assignment in Spain

23/08

Herbert COETZEE - opened by S.A. Hofmeyr

04/09

Walter BATTISS - "Limpopo" - opening show of the Gallery 101 ground floor and basement gallery

07/09

Ross MENDES - Canada

20/09

Kenneth BAKKER + Bernardine BIDEN

15/10

David BOTHA

16/10

Antonio QUADROS - Moçambique

18/10

Adeline WILSON

01/11

Raymonde AMEZ-DROZ - Switzerland

15/11

Diederick DÜRING

29/11

Berrell JENSEN - sculptures

01/12

Marie-Hélène ALBRECHT - ceramics

 


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1966

"The stricken household", 1965 - drawing by Mslaba Dumile-Feni

"The stricken household", 1965 by Mslaba DUMILE-FENI

17/01

Mslaba DUMILE

14/02

Lily SACHS - sculpture

28/02

Gordon VORSTER

14/03

Johannes MEINTJES - opened by Dr Allan V. Bird

17/03

AnneMarie OPPENHEIM

20/04

Egon WEGROSTEK - gold jewellery - ground floor gallery

25/04

Ernst DE JONG - opened by Mary Harari

30/04

Joâo PAULO - Moçambique - ground floor gallery - paintings and ceramics

09/05

Alice GOLDIN - landscapes

23/05

Ulrich SCHWANECKE

04/06

Barbara GREIG + DAG (Desmond GREIG)

06/06

Ilse KLEINMAN

23/06

Esias BOSCH - stoneware

04/07

Pinchas ABRAMOVITCH - Israel

18/07

Giovanni BUFFA

01/08

Visual Arts Research: George BOYS, Trevor COLEMAN, Mike LIGHT, Jan HEYNIKE

15/08

Neil SACK - watercolours - opened by Marjorie Wyatt Stayt

20/08

Peter NEL

20/08

Eduard LADAN

12/09

Collectors' Rare Carpets from the J. Shamoon Collection

26/09

Andrew MURRAY

11/10

Diederick DÜRING

24/10

RORKE'S DRIFT - tapestries 

05/11

WILLY - watercolours + appliqué creations - opened by H.E. Winder

07/11

Antonio QUADROS

23/11

Berrell JENSEN

26/11

Louis STEYN

05/12 

Peter GROBBELAAR - ceramics

 


 

1967

Berrell Jensen in her studio, 1967, preparing her show

Berrell Jensen preparing her 1967 exhibition at Gallery 101 (inv. card)

27/02

Maisie LIEBMAN - weaving

13/03

Gordon VORSTER

10/04

Henry MEYER

April

Marshall BARON - Zimbabwe

08/05

Dirk MEERKOTTER

07/06

Charity auction in aid of Jewish Women's Benevolent and Welfare Society, Johannesburg (36 artists) - opened by D. Livingstone

12/06

Mslaba DUMILE

11/07

Robin KEARNEY

15/07

Stella MAGNI

31/07

Ulrich SCHWANECKE

07/08

Danie MALAN

29/08

Lucas SITHOLE - 10 new sculptures, drawings and paintings

11/09

Ernst DE JONG - opened by Desmond Greig

25/09

Johannes MEINTJES

06/11

Esias BOSCH

20/11

Berrell JENSEN

25/11

Louis STEYN

11/12 

Maurice VAN ESSCHE - paintings and drawings

 


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