Born in Germany in 1927, <a href=" https://findartvalue.com/artist/gunther-friedrich-julius-van-der-reis">Gunther van der Reis</a> moved with his parents to South Africa in 1937. Van der Reis studied at the University of Cape Town's Michaelis School of Art and later achieved an MA in Art at the University of Pretoria. He taught at schools in Cape Town until 1956 when he moved to Pretoria to teach