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Keith Joubert
Artist

Keith Joubert

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Southern African wildlife art

Southern African subjects

Born
1948
Birthplace
Unknown
Died
31 January 2013

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Keith Joubert

Keith Joubert was a South African artist whose paintings grew out of close observation of wildlife and the bushveld. He worked from studios in conservation landscapes.

Early life

Art and design

Moved between mining communities as a child and studied industrial design in Johannesburg from 1963 to 1967.

Career

  1. Early career

    Commercial illustration

    Worked in illustration, cartooning, signwriting and advertising.

  2. 1970

    Professional artist

    Turned to art as his principal career.

Selected work

Southern African subjects

Developed paintings informed by journeys through the region and time in game reserves.

Beyond work

Bushveld life

Lived away from cities and maintained a houseboat and studio camp on the Linyanti River.

Family

His younger brother is wildlife filmmaker Dereck Joubert.

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