Gerda von Maltitz
1911 – 2006
Watercolours, pastels and paintings
Gerda von MALTITZ in about 1970
Short C.V.
Gerda (Gertruida) de Waal von Maltitz (née de Kock), b. in Heilbron, 1911, educated at Oranje Girls‘ School, Bloemfontein and University of the Orange Free State, Bloemfontein (BA Languages + Art History). Married Dr Adrian Archibald von Maltitz on 28th October, 1939. Their 5 children are: Amalie, Helene, Alida, Hanna, Peter. They lived in their historic family home „Ye Rokkes“ at 28 Pallinghurst Street, Westcliff, Johannesburg, until they retired to their farm Driefontein, Dewetshof.
Gerda was art teacher at Harrismith High School, OFS (1935-1937) and at Voortrekker High School, Boksburg (1937-1939). She received some art tuition from Sidney Goldblatt, Johannesburg, and exhibited since 1930 in Bloemfontein and Johannesburg. She frequently travelled abroad, including an around-the-world trip in 1963 and 1984.
Further details (in Afrikaans) available from this link to "Volksblad" of 24th August, 2001 (PDF)
Selected Exhibitions
1962 - Gallery 101 Johannesburg (solo) (June)
1964 - included in 11th Transvaal Academy Exhibition, Johannesburg Art Gallery (November), cat. 55
1966 - Gallery 93, Paris (April/May) (solo)
Work included in Paris / New York 1966 exhibition (click to view poster!)
1966 - Gallery Raymond & Raymond, New York (May) (solo)
1974 - SA Association of Arts, Pretoria (August/September)
1979 - included in the „Watercolours from South Africa“ exhibition shown in Nuremberg, W. Germany (2 works, cat. 93 + 94)
1981 - included in Republic Festival Arts Exhibition, Durban (May/June) cat. Ill. 362, 363
Selected Publications
„South African Panorama“, Pretoria, 1959 (February)
„South African Art and Artists 1900-1962“ (Jeppe) (Afrikaanse Pers-Boekhandel), 1963, p. 58
ARTLOOK 52, Johannesburg – March 1971, ill. on cover and pp. 18-20
"Seascape", 1971 watercolour - click on image for PDF article!
„Art & Artists of South Africa“ (Berman) (Balkema) (1983), p. 518, 519, 544 – ISBN 0-86961-144-5
„The Dictionary of South African Painters and Sculptors“ (Ogilvie) (Everard Read), 1988, p. 719/720 - ISBN 0-620-12663-9
Public Collections
Willem Annandale Art Gallery, Lichtenburg
Rand Afrikaans University (RAU), Johannesburg
University of Pretoria, Pretoria
Selected works sold on auctions
Provenance Auction House, Cape Town - 25th June, 2014 - Lot 374
Bernardi Auctioneers, Pretoria - June, 2014 - Lot 171 + Lot 172
Bernardi Auctioneers, Pretoria - April, 2014 - Lot 487 + Lot 494
Russell Kaplan Auctioneers, Johannesburg - 3rd August, 2013 - Lot P110
Russell Kaplan Auctioneers, Johannesburg - 16th February, 2013 - Lot P133
Westgate Walding Auctioneers, Sandown - 30th January, 2013 - Lot 389 + Lot 396
5th Avenue Auctioneers, Johannesburg - November 2012 - Lot 74 + Lot 153
Stephan Welz & Co., Johannesburg - 24th April, 2012 - Lot 348
"Abstract figures", 1968 - oil/canvas - 45x60cm (Lot 348)
http://myworld.ebay.de/wills-place/ - 2012
"Study of African women", 1975 - oil/canvas
Bernardi Auctioneers, Pretoria - 13th June, 2011 - Lot 620
5th Avenue Auctioneers, Johannesburg - 29th August, 2010 - Lot 123
Selected Press comments
"South African Art News and Review", Johannesburg - 20th July, 1961, p. 10, ill.
"Arts Calendar" - SA Association of Arts, Pretoria - August 1974 - p.6/7, ill.
"Arts Calendar" - SA Association of Arts, Pretoria - September 1974 - p.4, ill.
Volksblad, Bloemfontein - 24th August, 2001
others to follow!
Updated 25th June, 2014
