Born: 1876 - Karlsruhe, Germany
Died: 1960 – Pretoria (84yrs)
Resided in SA from 1898
A painter of scenes from Afrikaner life and of landscapes. Worked in oil and in watercolour from 1905. Designed tapestries and rugs and worked in various graphic media.
Studies:
Born: 1876 - Karlsruhe, Germany
Died: 1960 – Pretoria (84yrs)
Resided in SA from 1898
A painter of scenes from Afrikaner life and of landscapes. Worked in oil and in watercolour from 1905. Designed tapestries and rugs and worked in various graphic media.
Studies:
1894 -96 Architecture at the Charlottenburg Technische Hochschule, Berlin;
1907 Drawing and painting Kalsruhe;
1909 – 11 Stuttgart;
1935 – 36 in Florence, Italy, under Galileo Chini (1873 – 1945) and Pietro Annigoni (b.1900)
Profile:
A member of the NSA, the Eastern Province Society of Artists and the Transvaal Society of Artists. A number of illustrations for newspapers and books including: 23 Jahre Sturm und Sonnenschein in Sudafrika, A Schiel, 1903, Brockhaus, Leipzig and Nuwejaarfees op Palmietfontein by Leon Mare. 1898 an assistant land – surveyor at Vrede in the Orange Free State;
1900 – 02 a POW on St Helena Island, Atlantic Ocean;
1902 repatriated to Germany;
1903 – 06 lived in SWA/Namibia;
1907 – 11 in Germany;
1911-14 lived in Port Elizabeth, Potchefstroom, Johannesburg and Pretoria;
1914 – 16 interned at Pietermaritzburg;
from 1916 based in the Transvaal;
1920 – 25 in Johannesburg;
1926 – 28 in the Magaliesburg;
1928 – 31 toured SWA/Namibia in a caravan;
1931 – 60 lived in Pretoria. A trained architect working in Pretoria. Travelled on painting excursions with Olchert Braak (qv) , Bernhard Hesselbarth (qv) and JHJ Rabe (qv). In 1976 a commemorative issue of postage stamps of his work was issued.
Exhibitions:
Participated in group exhibitions from 1920 in SA, Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) and the UK;
1914 Johannesburg, first of several solo exhibitions;
1972 Pretoria Art Museum, Retrospective Exhibition;
1976 National Cultural History Museum, Pretoria and Holthausen Gallery, Pretoria, Commemorative Exhibitions.
Award:
1943 Medal of Honour, SA Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns.