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Mwenze Kibwanga

Mwenze Kibwanga (1925 - 1999) was active/lived in Congo, Africa.  Mwenze Kibwanga is known for Painting.

Mwenze Kibwanga, son of a weaver, was born in 1925 in Kilumba, Katanga province.

In 1934, he started attending classes at the Protestant mission in Mwanza, where he also took drawing lessons.

He left the village in 1942 to settle in Elisabethville and continued his basic education with the Methodists for two more years.

Unable to earn a living, he began to draw and was noticed by the Belgian Gaston Pletinckx in 1946, who took him under his wing and encouraged him to specialize in portraiture.

In 1950, Kibwanga was admitted to the "Atelier du Hangar" founded by French painter, Romain-Desfossés. There, he developed his style, bringing his subjects to life through a technique of hatching and parallel lines alternating between light and dark tones that follow the shapes of people, animals, and vegetation.

By reproducing the geometry of the wooden chisel, Mwenze developed a form of 'sculptural painting' Sculptors of "traditional" statues inspired him.   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1749 characters.]  Artist bio

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