GIRAFFE - Zakkie Eloff

Zakkie Eloff

SOUTH AFRICAN (1925 - 2004)

GIRAFFE

signed 

ink on paper

size : 30 x 23 cm

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Studied art at Pretoria Boys' High School under Batiss, Wits Tech art school under Van Essche and Phyllis Gardner.

A man of the veld, at his most comfortable in wide open spaces. He was a lecturer in painting at Pretoria Tech. He married art student Renee van Zyl in 1962. He escaped the city and became gamewarden at Etosha Pan, SWA. The content of his paintings and etchings reflects his absorption in wild life and the veld. Minute observations of animal appearance and habit recorded in thousands of sketches. Many dramatic experiences in SWA/Namibia, including loss of home and possessions in a devastating fire made him move with his wife and 3 small children to White River, E Tvl (now Mpumalanga), adjoining the Kruger National Park. In 1972 he was commissioned to paint the wild life panels for the VIP rooms at Jan Smuts Airport (now OR Tambo International)  

(source: Esme Berman: Art and artist of South Africa)

Zakkie Eloff and René van Zyl-Eloff in 1962 selecting works for their exhibition at Gallery 101 Johannesburg

(image http://www.art-archives-southafrica.ch/ELOFF.htm)

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