Nils Burwitz

NILS BURWITZ (Germany, 1940).
Untitled.
Oil on canvas.
Signed.
Measurements: 114 x 146 cm.

Nils Burwitz is an artist of German origin. In 1945, Burwitz and his family had to flee to West Germany and three years later, they moved again, in this case to South Africa. There he finished his education and completed his doctorate, graduating in Fine Arts at the University of the Witwatersrand in 1963. Thanks to a scholarship, he studied in England, Switzerland and Salzburg. In Salzburg he attended a lithography course at the Oskar Kokoschka School of Vision. He then returned to South Africa and began his teaching career at the University of the Witwatersrand, Dorkey House in Johannesburg and Soweto. In 1976 he moved with his family to Valldemossa, Mallorca where he established his studio. His works have been acquired by various renowned institutions, including the Albertina Museum in Vienna, the Albertinum in Dresden, the libraries of the cities of Boston, Buffalo and New York, the Library of Congress in Washington, the Kunsthalle Hamburg, the Ludwig Museum Cologne, the Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, the National Museum in Warsaw, the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, the British Museum and the Albert Museum in London.