Jan Vermeiren (born 1949) in Belgium is a South-African artist working in oil, lithography, etching and mural painting.
Art studies 1968-71 Koninklijke Academic voor Schone Kunsten en de Hogere Instituten, Antwerp, Belgium and 1971-74 Koninklijke Academic voor Schone Kunsten en de Hogere Instituten, Antwerp, Belgium, where he attained a Degree in Graphic Art. Student of Geert Reusens and the sculptor Lode Eyckermans. He then became a lecturer at the Technical College for Advanced Education in Cape Town (1981–87) where he joined an artist group with Alfred Krentz, Marthinus la Grange, Erik Laubscher, Claude Bouscharain and Stanley Pinker. Since 1977 he has lived permanently in South Africa, now in Cape Town.
His work is considered a vivid element of the post world-war South African art scene[1] generating a European view to traditional South-African culture[2]. Illustrator of children's books and periodicals. Hallmarks of his career are a consignment for the painting "Gift in Africa" as gift from the Flemish Government to South African President Nelson Mandela (1997), an exhibition of paintings for the Millennium Exhibition in Cape Town (1999) and an exhibition of oil paintings in the South African pavillon at EXPO 2000 in Hannover, Germany (2000)[3]. One of his scholars, John van Reenen later became a world record holder for discus throwing. van Reenen lectured at the University of Stellenbosch on etchings and as an artist found some success with sales across the United States of America and throughout South Africa.
Jan Vermeiren is profile Member of the SAAA, Cape Town Branch and member of the South African Artists Guild.
Exhibitions: 1969 Belgium, Yugoslavia, SA, the USA, Japan, West Germany, Belgium and SWA/Namibia. Several solo exhibitions in Belgium including Antwerp, more than 10 soloexhibitions in South Africa. Republic Festival Exhibition 1981. 1985 Tributaries tour of S.A and W Germany. Public Commissions: 1979 Bacchus mural, De Waal Hotel, Cape Town; 1983 Fantasia mural, Drama Theatre, University of the Orange Free State. Reference AASA.