Hennie Niemann Jnr
Born 1972 Bloemfontein,
Lives in Onrus River, South Africa
Hennie Niemann Jnr is a painter who works mainly in Oil on canvas. His mastery of the medium and the development of an iconic personal style is grounded on rigorous tuition from an early age by his artist father, Hennie Niemann Snr and the well-known South African painter and family friend Gregoire Boonzaier. His great success and huge following is not only due to hard work and commitment to his art form, but is evident in the shear impact his bold and confident have on the viewer. Experimenting with the Fauvist aesthetic and further greatly influenced by artists such as Picasso and van Essche his highly expressive works is characterised by a rich impasto surface and bold, confident brushstrokes. His subject matter and models vary capturing people encountered in his travels through Africa, intimate moments or memories shared or purely exercises in expressive movement. His subjects are almost always drenched in the African sun, broken up into
His latest work moves more towards abstraction, not in its purest form but rendered in a way to always hint at representational forms. The positive aspect throughout his development has been the establishment of his distinctive style and technique, irrespective of subject matter, which underpins the uniqueness of his oils. Hennie Niemann Jnr boasts a list of sell-out solo shows with very hight prices achieved on local and International auctions.
Curriculum Vitae
1972
Born in Bloemfontein to Magriet and Hennie Niemann.
1980 - 1989
Moves to Vermont where he is introduced to art at a very early age. Under the tuition of his artist father Hennie Niemann Snr and Gregoire Boonzaier, he begins sketching in bistre.
1990
After matriculating from Hermanus High School, Hennie’s military service affords him a year in the Kruger National Park. It is here, surrounded by bushveld, that his love of nature and wildlife is nurtured.
1991 - 1992
Drawing on this new found source of inspiration, Hennie returns to Vermont and starts his atistic career. His bistre sketches and expressionistic oils reflects his intense affinity with the interactions of the wild.
1993
His first exhibition of drawings was a sell-out.
1994 - 1996
Meets Angela Key who shares his passion for painting and wildlife. Together they set up a permanent studio in Vermont from where they make frequent safaris and visit many game parks and nature reserves throughout Southern Africa, resulting in a highly successful exhibition of their works at the Onrus Galerie in September 1996.
1997
Exhibition with Angela Key at The Cherie de Villiers Fine Art Gallery, Rosebank, Johannesburg.
Donated a painting to a WWF auction for the protection of endagered species.
1998
Exhibition at Onrus Galerie at the Marine, Hermanus.
2000
‘Triptych’ Exhibition with Angela Key and Wehrner Lemmer at Johans Borman Fine Art Gallery, Cape Town.
2002
Travels to Mozambique, Malawi and Zambia to collect reference material for paintings. Invited to show at the ‘Exhibition of Contemporary South African Art’ in Chelsea, London where his paintings sold out.
2002 - 2005
Participates in group exhibitions at Stellenbosch Art Gallery and Art and Wine gallery, Clarens.
2003
‘Triptych’ Exhibition with Angela Key and Jaco Sieberhagen at Johans Borman Fine Art Gallery, Cape Town.
2006
First solo exhibition of oil paintings at Johans Borman Fine Art Gallery, Cape Town. To view click here
2008
Solo exhibition at Johans Borman Fine Art Gallery, Cape Town. To view click here
2009
‘Art that inspires’ Anniversary exhibition at Johans Borman Fine Art Gallery, Cape Town.
2010
Solo exhibition at Johans Borman Fine Art Gallery, Cape Town. To view click here
2011
Solo exhibition at Johans Borman Fine Art Gallery, Cape Town. To view click here
2012
Solo exhibition at Johans Borman Fine Art Gallery, Cape Town. To view click here
2013
Solo exhibition at Johans Borman Fine Art Gallery, Johannesburg
2014
Cape Town Art Fair 2014, Johans Borman Fine Art Gallery, Cape Town.
2015
SAADA Antiques Art & Design Expo - Cape Town 2015
2015
Cape Town Art Fair 2015, Johans Borman Fine Art Gallery, Cape Town.
2015
Joburg Art Fair 2015, Johans Borman Fine Art Gallery, Johannesburg.
2015
‘SPECTRA’ - Johans Borman Fine Art Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.
2015
1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, London
2016
‘Allusions of Abstraction II’ - Johans Borman Fine Art Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.
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