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
June 8 artists: Ruy BASTOS, Jan BUYS, Herbert COETZEE, Barbara GREIG, Frank HARLING, John HLATYWAYO, Otto KLAR, Herman WALD
14/07 Johannes MEINTJES
24/07 Rose-Marie LACONTE
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
30/10 Zoltan BORBEREKI + Elizabeth SEBÖK
15/11 Zakkie ELOFF

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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 was shown, 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

09/04 Irma STERN: Retrospective of Graphic Art - 101 works
25/04 Maggie LAUBSER
09/05 Nel ERASMUS
May Alex WAGNER
29/05 Zoltan BORBEREKI
18/06 First National Graphic Week
18/06 Ruy BASTOS
June Gerda VON MALTITZ
09/07 Johannes MEINTJES
23/07 Harold RUBIN
31/07 Ernst DE JONG - opened by Arthur Goldreich
05/08 Eben LEIBBRANDT
22/08 Marjorie WALLACE
04/09 Eric BIRD
07/09 Giorgio PAGI
17/09 Zakkie ELOFF + Renée VAN ZYL
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
12/11 Nerine DESMOND - Retrospective 1947-1962
26/11 May HILLHOUSE
06/12 Louis STEYN

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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
29/04 Daniel SWART
May Julius SHER
06/05 Otto KLAR - abstracts
06/06 Hennie POTGIETER
15/07 Frans OERDER Estate - Part I.
05/08 Johannes MEINTJES
28/08 Konnie ZANDER - Namibia
16/09 Nell KAYE
15/10 Cecil HIGGS
29/10 Brian BRADSHAW
04/11 28 graphic artists from PORTUGAL
Nov. "Images of Man" (Julius Sher, John Rowe, Stan Elliott, Ronald Brent)
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 10 MOÇAMBIQUE artists - including Valente MALANGATANA
11/05 Louis STEYN
14/05 Shulamith WITTENBERG-MILLER
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
27/08 Otto KLAR - abstracts
31/08 Heidi HERZOG
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 + Cecily SASH
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
08/07 John HERITAGE - United Kingdom
July Ismail SOLKER
July Karl DE HAAN - photographs
18/08 Herbert COETZEE
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
10/03 Johannes MEINTJES
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
09/05 Alice GOLDIN
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
29/07 Visual Arts Research Group: George BOYS, Trevor COLEMAN, Mike LIGHT, Jan HEYNIKE
15/08 Neil SACK
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
07/11 Antonio QUADROS
23/11 Berrell JENSEN
26/11 Louis STEYN
05/12  Peter GROBBELAAR - ceramics

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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
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

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