Claude VAN LINGEN
1931*
Paintings, tempera, sculptures, constructions, assemblages
Claude van Lingen in 1962
Brief C.V.
Born 1931 in Vereeniging. Studied at Art School, Johannesburg's Witwatersrand Technical College, from 1949 to 1952 (under Phyllis Gardner), obtaining National Teachers Diploma in Art. 1953-1964 taught at Meyerton High School. In 1961, attended the Académie Notre-Dame des Champs, Paris, studying under Henri Goetz (1909-1989) and Selim Turan (1915-1994).
His abstract paintings were first exhibited in Johannesburg and Cape Town, 1962.
In 1965 Claude VAN LINGEN was a lecturer, 1970 a senior lecturer and subsequently Head of the Fine Arts Dept., Witwatersrand Technical College. He was also an art critic. After his divorce, he left South Africa for New York USA in 1978. Studied at Pratt Institute, New York, gaining MA (FA). Lived in New York NY for 27 years, thereafter in Austin TX USA.
Selected Solo and Group Shows
1962 Gallery 101, Johannesburg (26th March) (opened by Arthur Goldreich) (1st of several solo shows in South Africa)
1962 Lidchi Gallery, Cape Town
1968 Durban Art Gallery, Durban - jointly with Nico van Rensburg
1970 Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg (July/August)
1976 SA Association of Arts Gallery, Carlton Centre, Johannesburg (August)
Claude van Lingen in attendance at his exhibition of "flexibles" (foam sculptures) at the Carlton Centre, Johannesburg, in 1976
Other selected Group Shows
Adler Fielding Galleries, Johannesburg ("Bijou Paintings"), 16th August, 1960
Adler Fielding Galleries, Johannesburg ("Artists of Fame and Promise"), 1961, cat. 56
Adler Fielding Galleries, Johannesburg ("Artists of Fame and Promise"), 1962, cat. 71
Adler Fielding Galleries, Johannesburg ("Artists of Fame and Promise"), 1963, cat. 79
SA Association of Arts, Pretoria ("Contemporaries/Tydgenote 1963"), cat. 55 + 56
Adler Fielding Galleries, Johannesburg ("Artists of Fame and Promise"), 1964, cat. 109 + cat. 110
Transvaal Academy, Johannesburg - 1964 - cat. 50
Johnnesburg Festival 1964 "Art of Today", Rembrandt Art Centre, Milner Park, Johannesburg - 5th September/10th October, 1964, cat. 70-72
Republic Festival 1966 Art Exhibitions, SA Association of Arts, Pretoria - 1966 - cat. 301
SAB South African Breweries "Art Prize 1966 Kunsprys" exhibition shown at SA National Gallery, Cape Town, Pretoria Art Museum, Johannesburg Civic Theatre, Durban Art Gallery during 1966/1967, cat. 85
1973 ART South Africa Today, Durban Art Gallery (Ernest Oppenheimer Memorial Trust Award for his "Flexibles", joint winner with Ulrich Louw)
XIII Sâo Paulo Biennale, 1975 - 4 works
1978 Guest artist at Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg (4th to 23rd July, 1978)
Selected paintings from the early 1960s
"Nude, Paris", 1961 - oil/canvas - 30x20 cm
"Violin", 1963 - oil/canvas - 70x50 cm (cat. 79)
Works in selected public collections in South Africa
Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg
Durban Art Gallery, Durban (sculpture)
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (sculpture)
Hester Rupert Art Museum, Graaff-Reinet (painting)
"Saxophone", 1964 - oil/canvas (Coll. Hester Rupert Museum © , Graaff-Reinet)
Selected paintings from the mid 1960s
"Pat Pierce", 1964 - oil/canvas - 61x36 cm
"Rocking boat", 1966 - watercolour - 21.5x30.5 cm
Note: The "Rocking Boat" painting was the source for the polyurethane kinetic works of the early 1970s.
Other references and reviews
"South African Artists 1900-1962" (Harold Jeppe) (Afrikaanse Pers-Boekhandel), 1963, p. 55
"Twentieth century South African Art" (Bokhorst/Martienssen) (Human & Rousseau), 1966, p. 188 no. 88 (ill.)
Hester Rupert Art Museum, Graaff-Reinet - Souvenir catalogue 1966, listed
ARTLOOK 44, Johannesburg - 1970 July, pp. 11/13, ill.
ARTLOOK 91, Johannesburg - 1974 August/September, pp. 8/9, ill.
"Three Centuries of South African Art" (Hans Fransen) (AD Donker), 1982, p. 334, ill. p. 341 - ISBN 0-86852-012-8
"Art & Artists of South Africa" (Berman) (Balkema), 1983 - pp. 49, 161, 300 (+ill.), 382, 394, 516, 525, 544
"Johannesburg Art and Artists: Selections from a Century" (Till) (Johannesburg Art Gallery), 1986, pp. 70 + 71 (ill.) - ISBN 0-620-10210-1
"The Dictionary of South African Painters and Sculptors including Namibia" (Ogilvie) (Everard Read Publ.), 1988, p. 692 - ISBN 0-620-12663-9
"Images of Metal" (Rankin) (W.U.P.), 1994, p. 175, listed - ISBN 1-86814 257 4
“ABSA Group Corporate Art Collection 1900-1997” (Loedolff/Basson) (ABSA), 1997, ill. p65
Beeld, Johannesburg - 2nd September, 1976 (ill. review by Johan Bruwer)
The Star, Johannesburg - 7th September, 1976 (review by Richard Cheales)
The Star, Johannesburg - 25th January, 1982, p. 9, ill. (article by John Dewar)
Claude van Lingen's studios
in his loft at 552 Broadway, SOHO N.Y. mid-1980s and
in Austin TX
Other links of interest
http://www.claudevanlingen.net/
Claude van Lingen in 2009 by Michael Barnes
last updated 8th May, 2017
