Eli Kobeli
 
Name: Eli Kobeli
Location: Kroonstad, Orange Free State
Date of birth: 1932
Date of death: May 1999
Description: Eli Kobeli was born in Kroonstad (Free State) in 1932.

Eli was a painter of urban life, figures and abstract pictures. He studied under the American missionary, Reverend Hall Duncan and Cecil Skotnes at the Polly Street Art Centre in Johannesburg.

He worked in oils, gouache (method of painting in opaque pigments ground in water and thickened with a glue-like substance), watercolour and pastel.

A member of Artists under the Sun, Kobeli lived both in townships of both Alexandra and Soweto, which provided him with rich experience for the backdrop of his paintings.

Exhibitions :

? He participated in Group Exhibitions in SA, the U.K. and the USA
? 1980 : Gallery 21
? 1982 : National Gallery Gabarone Botswana
? 1995 : SA Art Association Pretoria

Notable events :

? 1995 : nominee for the Vita Art Awards at the Johburg Art Gallery.

Represented :

? Johannesburg Art Gallery
? SA National Art Gallery
? Absa Bank
? Standard Bank
? Transnet
? Eskom
? University of Fort Hare
 
 


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