WALTER MEYER

Meyer matriculated with a distinction in art in 1982. As a university student Meyer also got distinctions for his fine-arts degree at the University of Pretoria, winning the New Signature prize for painting in 1984. Meyer studied under Professor Nico Roos and John Clarke. He rose to prominence in the early 1990s with his distinctive landscape studies. Walter Meyer painted landscapes, portraits, still life, wildlife and abstract paintings and he also sculpted in wood. He was married first to Catharina Scheepers and then to Sophia (maiden surname unknown). Meyer and Scheepers finalised their divorce in 2008. He lived with his second wife Sophia Meyer, 27, in the housing suburb of Augrabies Park in Upington, Northern Cape. They married on 27 June 2010. The couple had a troubled marriage and his wife Sophia Meyer is accused of his murder.[

Meyer has work hanging in New York and the South African Art Gallery.He was represented by Everard Read Gallery. Professor Andries Bezuidenhout claims that Walter Meyer painted the demise of Afrikaner nationalism. Meyer has become known for expressing the mundane and less desirable side of reality. His style was inspired by quality of the light at dawn or dusk, and the heat of the arid desert landscapes. Meyer's paintings have been compared to works by Pierneef.

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Archived WORKs

Pink Chrysanthemums, Oil on canvas  400mm x 500mm

Oleander in Hylton Nel vase, Oil on canvas  400mm x 500mm

Pink Chrysanthemums, Oil on canvas  400mm x 500mm