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MAGGIE LOUBSER

Maggie Loubser was born in the Malmesbury District of the Cape in 1886. She died in the Strand in 1973, at the age of 87. She was elected a South African Society of Artists (SASA) member in 1907, long before she became a noted modernist. By 1922 she was already schooled in the principles of Modernism. Loubser went to Germany, where she was encouraged by Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. In 1924, she returned to SA to live near Klipheuwel in the Cape. In her new phase in South Africa, her work focussed on portraits of African and Indian men and women.