Artist: Stephanus Johannes Paulus Eloff
Date: 1912
Museum: University of Pretoria Museums (Pretoria, South Africa)
Technique: Sculpture
A bronze sculpture titled The Boxer, by the South African artist, Stephanus Johannes Paulus Eloff (1885-1947). The sculptor, better known as Fanie, was born in 1885 in Pretoria South Africa. In 1910 his father sent him to France to study mining – after spending a couple of months in Paris he decided to rather study art. This had his father livid and he was cut off financially. In 1912, at the 130th Salon exhibition at the Grand Palais de Champs-Elysees in Paris, Fanie was the only sculptor to compete against the world-famous French sculptor, Auguste Rodin (1840 – 1917). When Rodin took part in a competition all the sculptors of Paris withdrew their entries as they complained that they simply could not win against such a formidable artist. This did not deter Eloff, who was also the grandson of the Late President Paul Kruger (of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek), he entered the competition with this work titled
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