Erik (Frederik Bester Howard) Laubscher (1927 - 2013) was active/lived in South Africa. Erik Laubscher is known for Abstract panoramic view landscape painting, still life, mosaic murals.

Medium: Oil on board
Size: 20" x 16"
Frame Size: 25 1/2" x 21 1/2"
Condition: In excellent overall conditiont, No Blemishes observed.
Signature: Signed top right.

Erik Laubscher - Foreword to 2004 Exhibition with Jacobus Kloppers and Walter Meyer, By Amanda Botha, November 2004

"There is no safer way of avoiding the world than through art, and there is no safer way of being linked with the world than through art." - Goethe.

Experiencing the landscape is a spiritual experience for Erik Laubscher. His paintings become the poetic language of his emotions - the experience of his reaction to the vastness and varying contrasts of the South African landscape. He transforms lines, shapes, colours and textures to unify them into ordered structures. In this way he identifies with the emotional force of the landscape in order to capture his experience of it in an image. The final result is a celebration of the magnitude and expansiveness of the land.

He openly admits that he cannot paint if he is not enthralled by the forms, contrasting elements and atmosphere that he perceives before him. These are the elements of his composition. In composition emotion is transformed into logic. It is on the canvas and with his colour palette that he arranges his inner perceptions.

This year is the sixtieth year that Laubscher has been involved in depicting the South African landscape. Yet he remains a scout and an explorer of new perspectives that speak to him in new ways. In this way familiar scenes, specifically in the Overberg and Swartland, are the source of new discoveries. He is constantly refining his powers of observation. In recent decades he has returned repeatedly to the same scenes in an attempt to come closer to the intrinsic essence of his experience. This is what he embodies in composition.

He speaks of luck as a factor in capturing a specific experience in a landscape. When he travels around the Overberg or Swartland, his eye is like that of a photographer. For him luck lies in being at a certain place at a certain time to capture an image in a single second that can communicate something new and different.


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