<a href=" https://findartvalue.com/artist/erik-frederik-bester-howard-laubscher">Erik Laubscher</a> was born in 1927 in Tulbagh, and grew up in Port Elizabeth. He showed an early interest in art and began his formal art studies under <a href=" https://findartvalue.com/artist/maurice-van-essche">Maurice van Essche</a> at the Continental School of Art in 1946. Encouraged to continue his studies abro