Maggie Laubser: Birds in a Landscape with Figure and Huts (Blou Voëls) Flowers with 14 colours

with 14 colours

With each carefully numbered section

I can almost here the music

and fishing boats will always be associated with these towns

drawing from a global inspiration

Maggie Laubser: Birds in a Landscape with Figure and Huts (Blou Voëls) Flowers with 14 coloursMaria Magdalena (Maggie) Laubser was born in 1886 on a farm in the Swartland as the eldest of six children. She is highly regarded as one of South Africa's best artists and considered, together with Irma Stern, to be largely responsible for the introduction of Expressionism to South Africa. Like so many, her work was initially met with criticism, but over the years that has changed and she is now regarded as an exemplary and quintessentially South