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Historical Artist - Albert Mason (1895 - 1950)
Albert Mason was born in London, England 1895 - 1950
Art Education
- London University (architecture); St Martins Lane Academy, under John Holt; under private
masters on the continent
Short Artist Biography
- Albert Mason was persuaded by his father to study architecture, but soon switched to
picture-
restoration, painting in his spare time.
- 1914: Albert Mason served in armed forces as a Lewis gunner in France, twice wounded and
invalided out.
- 1918: Albert Mason came to South Africa (Jhb); struggled to live from his painting,
supplementing income with magazine illustration; spent two years on the diamond diggings, then
returned permanently to Jhb. Worked at portraiture, landscape and still-life, designed the first
poster issued by the Jhb Publicity Association.
- 1927: Albert Mason appointed to staff of new Wits Tech School of Art, teaching Commercial Art
and Poster Design; illustrated `Op die Spoor van ons Grootwild',
- 193: Spent greater part of his life in Jhb, but travelled extensively in southern Africa. His
views of Jhb and its mining-activities have become valued Africana. Albert Mason exhibited on
several notable international group exhibitions, but rarely held one-man shows. Albert Mason
painted four murals for the Capitol Theatre, Pretoria and executed a number of sculptural
commissions. His Giant Proteas was reproduced by E Schweikerdt (Pty) Ltd
Art Exhibitions
- 1926: first one-man exhibition, Jhb; South African Academy exhibitions.
- 1939-48: Royal Acadamy; Royal Institute of Oil Painters; posthumously
- 1952: Paris Salon
Public Art Collections
South African National Art Gallary, CT; Durban Art Gallery; Pretoria Art Museum;
Africana Museum, Jhb
Source
Berman, E. 1994. Art & Artists of South Africa . Southern Book Publishers.
Contemporary South African Artists
Art Galleries in South Africa
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