Louis Maqhubela
Born in Durban, Maqhubela moved with his family to Johannesburg in 1951. In 1957, while still at school at Nakene High School in Orlando, Soweto, Maqhubela, encouraged by Ephraim Ngatane (qv.), enrolled for art classes at the Polly Street Art Centre, where he studied under Cecil Skotnes (qv.) and Sydney Kumalo (qv.), later also studying at Polly Street’s successor, the Jubilee Art Centre well into the 1960s. At this time, Kumalo stamped himself as the major influence in the development of Maqhubela’s early style. Maqhubela is also recorded as having received some practical guidance from the Italian-born South African artist, Guiseppe Cattaneo (b.1929). Read More…
