Louis Kanyemba, oil painting on hardboard, Elisabethville School

Wonderful painting of Louis Kanyemba born in 1937 in Luena (Angola). In 1947, Kanyemba was formed by Pilipili Mulangoy who is part of the art workshop " le Hangar " founded by Pierre Romain-Desfossés in 1946 in Elisabethville, (now Lubumbashi, DRC), after by Kayembe, Norbert Ilunga, Bela Sara, Mwenze Kibwanga, Raphaël Kalela et Sylvestre Kaballa. The meeting with the master of African art Pili Pili will have a considerable impact on the evolution of Kanyemba's work. He will deepen the technique he learned with Pili Pili, which consisted of working with color using only his fingers.
Kanyemba draws his inspiration from scenes of everyday life: fishing, hunting parties, village scenes. The painting becomes a poetic space, the symbiosis between man and nature, more than the representation of nature itself. What gives an incredible force to these tables. This modern Congolese painting is striking with its singularity and modernity.
Thus, heir to the first generation of great painters of the "Hangar" workshop, his work appears as one of the masterpieces of Congolese painting. He participated in personal or collective exhibitions from 1961 in Lubumbashi and Kinshasa.
In the early 1980s, his works will be exhibited in Belgium and the United States.
Very nice frame built by a professional.

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