Maqhubela

Reflections on a South African master painter, Louis Maqhubela

Reflections on a South African master painter, Louis Maqhubela: Louis Maqhubela in London. Images courtesy the Maqhubela family Louis Maqhubela (1939-2021) was one of the last of the great masters of South Africa’s modernist painting tradition. Modernism is a term for experimental approaches to form and content in art in response to political, technological and …

Remembering Louis Maqhubela, pioneering and enigmatic South African painter

Remembering Louis Maqhubela, pioneering and enigmatic South African painter: Artist Louis Maqhubela and his wife Tana passed away within days of one another. Image courtesy the Maqhubela family The pioneering South African artist Louis Khehla Maqhubela passed away on 6 November 2021 at St Thomas’ hospital in London, UK, a few days after his wife …