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Walter Meyer

South African 1965-2017 


Carl Walter Meyer was born in Aliwal North in the Western Cape. He studied painting at the University of Pretoria under Nico Roos and John Clarke, graduating with a degree in Fine Art in 1984. This was followed by a year under Michael Buthe at the Staatliche Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf, West Germany.

Meyer worked in a variety of media including oil, watercolour, acrylic, gouache, ink, wash, pen, pencil and various graphic media. He established himself primarily as a painter of the landscape, both with and without evidence of human occupation. Meyer was inspired by the beauty of remote places. He rendered the landscape as he observed it, and his compelling and evocative paintings, masterfully capturing the softness of the morning or evening light or the heat of the desert are both melancholic and poetic. He also produced portraits, still lifes, abstract images, and some sculptures in wood.

Walter Meyer won numerous awards, including the New Signatures first prize for painting in 1984, the South African Association of Artists (SAAA) first prize for painting in 1985, the New Signatures first prize for drawing in 1987 and the FNB Vita Art Now merit award in 1994.

He participated in several solo and group exhibitions locally and in Namibia, Europe and the United States of America, and he was recognised in Tuisveld, a memorial exhibition held at the William Humphreys Art Gallery in Kimberley, in 2018. Meyer’s work is represented in private and public collections throughout South Africa, including the Iziko South African National Gallery in Cape Town.

Walter Meyer died prematurely at his home in Upington in 2017.


171 lots offered      77.78% sold      ZAR 8 563 177
 

  Including Premium and VAT Results include Buyer's Premium and VAT
Walter Meyer; Untitled (Landscape)
12 Nov 2024
Starting at ZAR 160 000
Walter Meyer; Untitled (Wasps)
12 Nov 2024
Starting at ZAR 180 000
Walter Meyer; Untitled (Colour Field with Abstract Symbols)
12 Nov 2024
Starting at ZAR 130 000
Walter Meyer; Deep in the Kalahari
11 Nov 2024
Starting at ZAR 20 000
Walter Meyer; Untitled/Ongetiteld
11 Nov 2024
Starting at ZAR 30 000
Walter Meyer; Flowers in a Vase
11 Nov 2024
Starting at ZAR 12 000
Walter Meyer; Portrait
9 Sep 2024
Sold for ZAR 20 519
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Walter Meyer; Still Life with Coke Bottle and Glass
8 Jul 2024
Sold for ZAR 16 415
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Walter Meyer; Reitfontein, Kalahari
8 Jul 2024
Sold for ZAR 128 975
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Walter Meyer; Huis met Telefoonhokkie, Kameelmond (House with Telephone Booth, Kameelmond)
8 Jul 2024
Sold for ZAR 117 250
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Walter Meyer; Street Scene, Lüderitz (Car on dust Road)
25 Jun 2024
Sold for ZAR 134 838
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Walter Meyer; Paulette House, Somerset East
25 Jun 2024
Sold for ZAR 46 900
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT

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Results in green indicate post sales.