Michael Albertyn was born on 28 November 1938 in Kimberley. He is the great grandson on Otto Landsberg, an internationally acclaimed artist from Germany and the grandson on HO Jeppe, a pioneer in the diamond and gold industry in South Africa who was also a gifted artist.
He studied art under well-known artists such as Victor Visser, WH Coetzer, and later at the Stellenbosch University.
He presently resides with his family in the Cape Province in South Africa.