Wim Blom “The Beauty of Stillness”

Wim Blom

Willem Adriaan Blom (Wim Blom) was born in Germiston, South Africa on the 22nd of February 1927.(†18th of January 2021)

Wim received his Fine Arts MA degrees from the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and did post-graduate work at the

University of Edinburg, Scotland, and at the University of Perugia, Italy.

Wim Blom taught at the University of the Witwatersrand and at the Johannesburg School of Art. Trained as an art historian he held

the post of Research Curator at the National Gallery of Canada and subsequently that of Curatorial Administrator.

After leaving the museum world Wim Blom dedicated himself exclusively to painting. For a number of years he lived in Italy and Spain.

Wim was a devoted traveller and an inveterate reader in several languages. His work is represented in public collections, such as the

National Gallery of Canada, the South African National Gallery in numerous corporate and private collections in Canada, France, Great

Britain, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, and the U.S.A. Wim Blom

has exhibited internationally.

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