Stanley Pinker (1924 – 16 June 2012) was a South African painter and printmaker.
Early life and education Pinker was born in 1924 in Windhoek, South-West Africa (present-day Namibia). He served as a soldier with the Allied Forces during the Second World War and began painting in Europe after the war. Returning to southern Africa, he studied art in Cape Town and subsequently spent several years in Europe.
Career In 1969, Pinker returned to South Africa to take up a lecturing post at the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town, where he taught until 1986. He was considered one of South Africa's leading modernist painters, alongside contemporaries such as Alexis Preller and Cecil Skotnes. In 2001 he was awarded the Molteno Medal for lifetime achievement in painting.
In 2014, his canvas was sold for Rand 5.8m.
Awards and recognition 2001: Molteno Medal
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