Born into an Anglo-Flemish Protestant family of farmers, Maggie Laubser approached art under the guidance of painter Edward Roworth. During her numerous trips to Europe she discovered Van Gogh, Gauguin, Kandinsky, Matisse and freed herself from traditional South African aesthetic forms. Considered along with Irma Stern a pioneer of South African expressionism, Laubser worked continuously until her death, producing almost 1,800 pieces in a predominantly expressionist style but with identifiable elements of Fauvism and bucolic realism, revealing the European prototypes by which she was influenced.
