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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.


187 lots offered      74.87% sold      ZAR 8 906 133
 

  Including Premium and VAT Results include Buyer's Premium and VAT
Walter Meyer; Ship in the Moonlight
25 Jun 2024
Starting at ZAR 20 000
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Walter Meyer; Stormvogelbucht, Lüderitz
25 Jun 2024
Sold for ZAR 87 938
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Walter Meyer; Namib
28 May 2024
Sold for ZAR 128 975
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Walter Meyer; Spoorweghuis
28 May 2024
ZAR 50 000 - 70 000
 
Walter Meyer; Sometimes
15 Apr 2024
Sold for ZAR 49 245
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Walter Meyer; Figures at Dusk
20 Mar 2024
Sold for ZAR 87 938
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Walter Meyer; Laaste Lig oor Grasvlakte (Sunset over Grass Field)
19 Mar 2024
Sold for ZAR 164 150
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Walter Meyer; Tiger Lilies in a Vase
19 Mar 2024
Sold for ZAR 438 995
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Walter Meyer; Surreal Space Composition
15 Jan 2024
ZAR 100 000 - 150 000
 
Walter Meyer; Trees, Camps Bay
8 Nov 2023
Sold for ZAR 105 525
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Walter Meyer; Yacht With Swimmers Camps Bay
8 Nov 2023
Sold for ZAR 187 600
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Walter Meyer; Kalahari Farm With Windmill
8 Nov 2023
Sold for ZAR 82 075
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT