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Hermann Niebuhr was born in Johannesburg in 1972. He studied at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (with distinction in History of Art) in 1993. He was awarded bursaries in 1990 and 1994 (Rhodes Masters Degree Scholarship), and 1996 (Raymond Pullen Scholarship for painting).

 AWARDS

1990 First Year Bursary

1994 Rhodes Masters Scholarship

1996 Raymond Pullen Scholarship for Painting

 EXHIBITIONS

2016

love song for the end of the world, MOOR GALLERY, Franschhoek

BOXO projects, PALM SPRINGS FINE ART FAIR, Palm Springs, USA

 2015

winter is coming, CAVALLI ESTATE, Stellenbosch

Dawid Ras gallery presents three artists(vd Westhuizen, Erasmus, Niebuhr), DIRT GALLERY, Cape Town

2014

residency exhibition, Joshua Tree, California USA

highveld, THE BAILEY GALLERY, Johannesburg

Seeing Eden, CASIA LABIA GALLERY, Cape Town

2013

stillness, THE CANOPY, Johannesburg

Everard Read Centenary Exhibition, EVERARD READ GALLERY, Johannesburg

Weather report, ARTKLOP FESTIVAL, Potchefstroom

2012

City Chromatic, EVERARD READ GALLERY, Johannesburg

2011

Horse, EVERARD READ GALLERY, Johanneburg

2010

Decade, CAROL LEE FINE ART, Johannesburg

White Painting, CASA LABIA MUSEUM, Cape Town

Due South , EVERARD READ GALLERY, Johannesburg

2009

mine, ASHANTI GOLD OF AFRICA MUSEUM, Johannesburg

The Great South African Nude, EVERARD READ GALLERY, Johannesburg

Champagne for my facebook friends, CANOPY GALLERY, Johannesburg

 2008

Night Shift, CANOPY GALLERY, Johannesburg
South Africans Abroad, HODNETT FINE ART, Vancouver

 2007
Antarctica - on thin ice, UNITED NATIONS GALLERY , New York

 2006
A month of sundays, GALLERY ON THE SQUARE, Johannesburg

 2005

night ride home,ABSA GALLERY, Johannesburg

 2004

 2003
Joburg Notes, CAROL LEE FINE ART, Johannesburg
Sedibeng sa Limpho, SOAN STUDIO, London

 2002
Inside-Out, CAROL LEE FINE ART, Cape Town
Groundings, THIRD EYE GALLERY, Cape Town

 2001
Up and Coming, SOAN STUDIO, London
Karoo, BRONZE AGE FOUNDRY, Cape Town
South African Landscape, UNISA ART GALLERY , Pretoria

 2000
Turning Heads, SOAN STUDIO, London
Karoo Scapes, OPEN WINDOW ART ACADEMY, Pretoria
South African Landscapes, CAROL LEE FINE ART, Johannesburg

 1999
Contemporary South African Landscapes, KLEIN KAROO KUNSTEFEES, Oudtshoorn

COLLECTIONS

Absa Bank; Weber Wentzel Bowens; KPMG; Sasol; Rhodes University; General Cologne; Rosengarten-Rosin & Wright; J.P.Morgan; SAB Miller; Nedcor; Modise Attorneys; Ashanti Gold; Novocol