Artist: Anton Pieter Van Wouw
Date: 1910
Museum: University of Pretoria Museums (Pretoria, South Africa)
Technique: Sculpture
A bronze sculpture titled, Zulu (1910) by the South African artist Anton van Wouw (1862-1945). In 1910, Van Wouw created two works titled, Zulu and coffee drinker, for both these works he used an African male as a figure model named, Sidwale Tokozile. This sculpture is a posthumous bronze cast from the Morris Singer Foundry in Basingstoke England done in 1975. Short biography: Anton van Wouw was born on 26 December 1862 in Driebergen in the Netherlands. After school, Van Wouw began as a stucco worker in Delft where he learnt the art of sculpture. He studied at the Rotterdam Academy for Arts, but stopped his studies to join his father and brother in South Africa. After having a hard time as an artist in the early beginnings of his career of the then Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (South African Republic 1852-1902) Van Wouw was finally recognised for his work when Sammy Marks (1884-1920), a Lithuanian-born South African industrialist and financier, commissioned Van Wouw to create the famous Kruger Memorial, currently situated on Church Square in the centre of South Africa
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