Alexis Preller 001

About the artist

Alexis Preller was a Pretoria-born South African modernist painter who blended European and African motifs. He trained at London's Westminster School of Art and studied ancient and African art in Europe. Preller is celebrated for his highly individualistic style, drawing on Egyptian, Greek, Renaissance and traditional southern African art. In the late 1940s and 1950s he painted scenes inspired by visits to Ndebele vi…