Johan VAN HEERDEN
b. 6th January, 1930
Sculptures, paintings, graphics, jewellery and actor
Johan van Heerden in 1965 (© Constance Stuart)
Short C.V.
C.V. with list of Public Collections and Commissions to 1977 as published:
Selected Solo and Group Shows
1956 Lidchi Gallery, Johannesburg
1964 SA Association of Arts, Pretoria (Jewellery) (13th October)
1965 Gallery 101, Johannesburg (Paintings) (14th June)
1965 SA Association of Arts, Pretoria (Drawings, Paintings, Sculptures) (18th October)
1966 SA Association of Arts, Pretoria (Sculptures) (25th October)
1969 Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg (Johan and Jacqueline van Heerden) (5th December)
1977 Gallery International, Cape Town (Sculptures) (25th September)
1977 SA Association of Arts (West Gallery), Pretoria (7th November)
1978 SA Association of Arts, Pretoria (Sculptures) (7th November)
1991 Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, Pretoria (Sculptures) (September)
Images
Works by Johan van Heerden, Ernst de Jong, Walter Battiss and others on view at the Gallery 101 Rand Central Johannesburg street-level premises in 1966
Some of the sculptures illustrated in ARTLOOK 10 - September, 1967
Works on auction
Stephan Welz / Sothebys, Cape Town - 2002 (15th October - Lot 228)
Stephan Welz & Co., Cape Town - 2011 (22nd February - Lot 579), ill.
Bernardi Auctioneers, Pretoria - 2007 (7th May - Lot 661+662)
Bernardi Auctioneers, Pretoria - 2009 (9th February - Lot 448)
Please click on Lot 448 for a better view!
Selected references
ARTLOOK 1 Johannesburg - 1966 November - Vol. 1 No. 1, p.12 ill.
ARTLOOK 10 Johannesburg - 1967 September - Vol. 1 No. X, pp. 10/11, ill.
ARTLOOK 30 Johannesburg - 1969 May, pp. 3-5, ill.
ARTLOOK 37 Johannesburg - 1969 December, p. 35, (Johan + Jacqueline van Heerden), ill.
ARTLOOK 82 Johannesburg - 1973 September - Vol. 6 No. 9 (Weldart '73), p. 10, ill.
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Habitat No. 15 1975 pp. 52/55, ill.
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OUR ART4 ONS KUNS, F.E.S.T., Pretoria / Foundation for the Creative Arts, Johannesburg, 1993, pp. 138/145, ill. - ISBN 0-7970-2832-3
Johan van Heerden with one of his paintings in 1962
Other Publications
„Die hedendaagse beeldhoukuns in Suid-Afrika“ (van der Westhuysen) (Ons Erfdeel Vlaams ©), 1963, No 3, pp. 50-67, ill. p. 58
"Twentieth century South African Art" (Human & Rousseau) (Bokhorst), 1966, ill. 99 on p. 129
"South African Graphic Art and its techniques" (Human & Rousseau) (F.L. Alexander), 1974, ill. p. 38 + 132 - ISBN 0-7981-0329-9
"Guide to the Pretoria Art Museum" (A.J. Werth), undated abt-1977, p. 23, ill.
"Johan van Heerden" (Afrox Metalart catalogue) (Russell-Walling), 1977, 20 pp., ill.
"South African Art" (MacDonald Heritage Library) (James Ambrose Brown), 1978, p. 32, ill. - ISBN 0-7967-0009-5
"Five sculptors - an exhibition of metal sculptors", 1980, cat. for touring exhibition shown in Cape Town, Grahamstown, Johannesburg, Pretoria, 3 pp. ill.
Republic Festival Arts Exhibition, Durban, May-June 1981, p. 63
"Three Centuries of South African Art" (A.D. Donker) (Hans Fransen), 1982, pp. 334, 335 (ill.), 350, 352 (ill.) - ISBN 0-86852-012-8
"Looking at South African Art" (JL van Schaik) (Harmsen), 1985, pp. 109, 123, 179; see ill. 123+126 - ISBN 0-627-01411-9
"Paris and South African Artists 1850-1965" (SA National Gallery, Cape Town) (Alexander/Bedford/Cohen), 1988, p. 110, ill. fig 8 - ISBN 0-620-12147-5
"Public Sculpture & Reliefs, Cape Town" (Clifton Publ.) (Crump/van Niekerk), 1988, p.18+21 ill. cat.2 - ISBN-13: 9780620124645
"Images of Wood - aspects of the history of sculpture in 20th Century South Africa (Johannesburg Art Gallery) (Rankin), 1989 - ISBN 0-620-13867-X
"Artists' Palate - a collection of artists' recipes" (Ladan / Doyle), 1991 - p.34, ill. - ISBN 0-620-15955-3
"Art & Artists of South Africa" - 3rd edition (Southern Book Publ.) (Berman), 1993, pp. 191, 193, 244, 300/01, 375, 382, 395, 470/01, 475, 515/18; ill. on pp. 411+412+471
"Images of Metal" (Witwatersrand University Press) (Rankin), 1994 - pp. 18-22, 52, 55, 57, 62, 67 (ill. p.19) - ISBN 1-86814-257-4
"Printmaking in a transforming South Africa" (David Philip Publ.) (Hobbs/Rankin), 1997, p.136 - ISBN 0-86486-334-9
"Pretoria - Artists' Impressions 1857-2001" (Protea Book) (Bolsmann), 2001, p. 301 - ISBN 1-919825-66-5
Other references
The Star, Johannesburg - 25th May, 1965 ("Ivivi" is a dream come true ...)
Other numerous press cuttings from the 1960s in our archives - details upon request!
Gallery 181 CV with list of public collections and commissions
Reference to Johan van Heerden as a film actor
"Die Vlugteling" (1960) (Director: Gordon Vorster)
"Die Ruiter in die Nag" (1963) (Director: Jan Perold)
Johan van Heerden on Youtube
Retrospective Exhibition Johannesburg 2005
Further Links
www.pelmama.org – do an internal search for „Heerden“
See also:
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Last update of this page - 4th February, 2012