Marlene dumas biography
Marlene dumas biography
Marlene dumas...
Marlene Dumas
South African artist (born 1953)
Marlene Dumas (born 3 August 1953) is a South African artist and painter currently based in the Netherlands.[3][4]
Life and work
Dumas was born in 1953 in Cape Town, South Africa and grew up in Kuils River in the Western Cape, where her father had a vineyard.[5][1] Dumas witnessed the system of apartheid during her childhood.
Dumas began painting in 1973 and showed her political concerns and reflections on her identity as a white woman of Afrikaans descent in South Africa.[6][7] She studied art at the University of Cape Town from 1972 to 1975, and then at Ateliers '63 in Haarlem, which is now located in Amsterdam.[8] She studied psychology at the University of Amsterdam in 1979 and 1980.[3] She currently lives and works in the Netherlands and is one of the country's most prolific artists.[9]
Dumas has also featured in some films, Miss