Dan ERASMUS (b. 1942)
Commander General Andries Pretorius
year unknown
charcoal on paper
30 x 25 cm
C.R Swart
year unknown
charcoal on paper
30 x 25 cm
Dr. D.F Malan
year unknown
charcoal on paper
30 x 25 cm
Dr. H.F Verwoerd
year unknown
charcoal on paper
30 x 25 cm
General J.C Smuts
year unknown
charcoal on paper
30 x 25 cm
General Louis Botha
year unknown
charcoal on paper
30.5 x 25 cm
J.G Strydom
year unknown
charcoal on paper
30 x 25 cm
John Xavier Merriman
year unknown
charcoal on paper
30.5 x 25 cm
President S.J.P Kruger
year unknown
charcoal on paper
30 x 25 cm
Sir Benjamin D’urban
year unknown
charcoal on paper
size unknown
Sir George Grey
year unknown
charcoal on paper
30 x 25 cm
BIOGRAPHY
Daniel Erasmus born in Bloemfontein in 1942 and in 1955, at the age of 15, attended art classes at the Pretoria Art Centre, which was then managed by the late Walter Battiss.
He qualified as a geologist at the University of Stellenbosch and worked for Tsumeb Corporation in Southwest Africa (now Namibia) and the Industrial Development Corporation in Johannesburg, retiring in 1999.
He paints landscapes and flora with oil and acrylic and aims only to use the primary colours – yellow, red and blue – believing that ‘a true artist should be able to mix any colour from the primaries’.