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Maria Magdalena Laubser, known as Maggie Laubser (14 April 1886 – 17 May 1973) was a South African painter and printmaker. She is generally considered, along with Irma Stern, to be responsible for the introduction of Expressionism to South Africa. Her work was initially met with derision by critics but has gained wide acceptance, and now she is regarded as an exemplary and quintessentially South African artist.〔 ==Early life and education== Maria Magdalena Laubser was born on the wheat farm ''Bloublommetjieskloof'' near Malmesbury in the Swartland, a productive agricultural area in South Africa.〔〔 She was the eldest of six children of Gerhardus Petrus Christiaan Laubser and Johanna Catharina Laubser (née Holm). Laubser's youth was dominated by the rural and pastoral and she delighted in this carefree existence.〔Schutte, Jan. ''Die Wêreld van Maggie Laubser''. Transcript from the University of Stellenbosch (U.S. 79/3/1) for radio talk on Afrikaans service, South African Broadcasting Corporation, 21 May 1972.〕〔Laubser, Maggie. 1956. ''Dit is my Kontrei''. Transcript from the University of Stellenbosch (U.S. 79/4/5) for radio talk on Afrikaans service, South African Broadcasting Corporation, 21 February 1956.〕 After attending the farm school Rocklands,〔 she left for boarding school at Bloemhof Seminary, Stellenbosch, where she was introduced to the art of drawing.〔 She returned to the farm in 1901, and during a visit to Cape Town she met Beatrice Hazel, a realistic romantic style painter, who introduced her to Edward Roworth,〔 giving impetus to her desire to study painting.〔 In 1903 she convinced her parents to let her go to Cape Town once a week for singing lessons. The difficulty of travel and the low opinion her mother had of her mezzo-soprano voice discouraged her, but it was at this stage that she started painting on her own.〔 She studied painting under Roworth in Cape Town for two months of 1903, during which time she received a silver medal for her work.〔〔 By 1907 she had become proficient enough to be elected to the South African Society of Artists (SASA)〔 and, in 1909, she was represented at the annual exhibition of the SASA and the Fine Arts Association of Cape Town. By 1910, she had her own studio in Strand Street, Cape Town.〔 During a 1912 visit to her nephew, Gert Coetzee, in Pretoria, she took up employment as a governess on a farm owned by the Wolmarans family in Ermelo district, Transvaal, where she also taught art and needlework. While on vacation in Durban with a friend, Sophie Fisher, she befriended Jan Hendrik Arnold Balwé (Consul for the Netherlands in Durban 1903-1913), a shipping-line owner who offered to finance her and her sister Hannah's studies abroad.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Maggie Laubser」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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