Anton van Wouw was born in Driebergen, Netherlands in 1862. He is regarded as the father of South African sculpture. He decided to move to the developing city of Pretoria at the age of 28 and waited for ten years to receive his first commission. This was from financier Sammy Marks to create a monumental statue of Paul Kruger, which stands on Church Square.
See his first two houses built in 1913 and 1927. The last house in which he lived, built in 1937, is now the Anton van Wouw Museum.
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Paul Kruger Statue: 1896 : 1899 : 1954. Central, Tshwane (Pretoria), Gauteng - Sculptor statue 1896 : 1899
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Books citing VAN WOUW Bakker, Karel A, Clarke, Nicholas J. 2014. Eclectic ZA Wilhelmiens : A shared Dutch built heritage in South Africa. Pretoria: Visual Books. pp 81, 83, 196, 202
| Berman, Esmé. 1983. Art and artists of South Africa: An illustrated biographical dictionary and historical survey of painters, sculptors and graphic artists since 1875. Cape Town : Balkema. pp 3 ill, 37, 43, 67, 132, 138, 139,+ill, 176, 227, 237, 298, 312, 327, 344+ill, 345 ill, 372, 379, 380, 393, 394, 395+ill, 413 ill, 463 ill pop, 472472-473+ills, 484, 507, 514, 515
| Cohen, Morris J. 1938. Anton van Wouw : Sculptor of South African Life. Johannesburg: Radford Adlington. pp All
| Crump, Alan & Van Niekerk, Raymund. 1988. Public sculptures & reliefs Cape Town. Cape Town: Clifton Publications. pp 29 (ill.), 32; 34;
| Fisher, RC, Le Roux, SW. 1998. Architecture of the Transvaal. Pretoria: UNISA. pp 82, 124, 127
| Ogilvie, Grania & Graff, Carol. 1988. Dictionary of South African painters and sculptors, including Namibia. Johannesburg: Everard Read. pp 698-700 + ill
| Ploeger, Jan. 1994. Nederlanders in die Transvaal 1850-1950. Pretoria: Van Schaik. pp 140
| SABC. 1959. Our Art 1. Pretoria: Lantern / SABC. pp 7-12
| Unidentified. 1981. Anton van Wouw en die Van Wouwhuis. Pretoria: University of Pretoria. pp All
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