the Autumn of 1951, Braun-Dusemond was appointed to sit on the selection committee of the Kenya Arts Society of which he became vice president. Braun's paintings began to sell both in Kenya (George Vamos, the architect of the multi-racial United Kenya Club, was one of his customers) and in the John Whibley Gallery, London. He exhibited frequently at The Atelier in Nairobi and had exhibitions throughout East Africa. While establishing a name for himself Braun-Dusemond, recalling his own encounters with prejudice, was also eager to encourage young African artists. Interviewed by Drum Magazine, in 1959, Braun-Dusemond said, 'The quicker we get politics away from a racial squabble, the better for all of us.' In 1959 he opened the New Stanley Art Gallery in Nairobi which was frequented by film stars and white hunters. The Mediterranean (1963-1976) In 1963, fearing political upheaval following Kenya's Independence, Braun-Dusemond abandoned his successful business and travelled to South Africa, Israel and Cyprus in search of a new place to paint. Plans to set up a gallery in the Dome Hotel, Kyrenia, had to be abandoned because they coincided with the eruption of violence in Cyprus. Braun-Dusemond and his wife (Ruth Hornby-Waring) and two children had to be escorted out of Kyrenia in a German Embassy car. Braun-Dusemond finally settled in Malta in 1966. There he established The Mdina Gallery and called himself Dusemond. With the change of name came the transformation of style as he moved out of his African Abstract phase into the creation of dreamy Mediterranean landscapes. Abandoning the vivid multi-colour oils and large canvases of his youth, Braun-Dusemond took up painting with watercolour and gouache. His African Tachiste fantasies were transmuted into unique landscapes bathed in ochre and green and tinged with a beguiling gold. The sharp light of the equator had yielded to the muted tones of the Mediterranean. Braun-Dusemond lived with his growing family (he had six children) in Palazzo Gourgion in the shadow of the Cathedral of the 'silent city' of Mdina. His customers – mainly German tourists - were intrigued by Braun-Dusemond's personality and history as much as by the originality of his work. He had good contacts with the German Embassy in Malta which encouraged his success. In 1976 he welcomed the former German Chancellor, Willy Brandt, to Mdina. He maintained his links with the European art scene through his cosmopolitan customers. The journalist and patron of