Artist: Erich Mayer
Date: 1940
Size: 19 x 28 cm
Museum: University of Pretoria Museums (Pretoria, South Africa)
Technique: Watercolor
Baobab study near to Mussina is by the German / South African artist Ernst Karl (Erich) Mayer (1876-1960). The Baobab it probably one of the most famous Southern African Trees due to their distinctive size and shape. Most South African landscape artists painted a baobab tree during their lifetime. Musina (On the painting spelled Mussina) is a border town near the border between South Africa and Zimbabwe. Short Biography: Mayer was born in Karlsruhe in Germany in 1876, he immigrated to the Transvaal in 1898 to come and search his fortune. He however had a long and difficult road in the country. Just over a year after coming to the Transvaal, the South African War (1899-1902) broke out, and he joined the call to arms on the Boer side. Mayer was captured and sent to St. Helena Island as a Prisoner of War. This was first, of three periods Mayer spent in prison during a war. After the war, Mayer made a career mostly by painting small watercolours, usually iconic of the typical South African landscape. In the First World War (1914-1918) as well as the Second World War (1939-1945) Mayer was interred in a concentration camp due to his German heritage. Mayer passed away in 1960.
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