Esias BOSCH
1923 - 2010
creative ceramics, pottery, murals, graphics, drawings and paintings
Esias Bosch in 1967 (©)
Brief C.V.
Notice in the Pretoria Art Museum's Enews June/July, 2010 - click on image for better view!
Selected Solo Shows
Gallery 101, Rand Central, Johannesburg - 23rd June, 1966
Gallery 101, Rand Central, Johannesburg - 6th November, 1967
SA Association of Arts, Pretoria - May / June, 1969 (PDF of cat.)
Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria - Retrospective Exhibition - 14th September, 1988
Gallery 21, Victory House, cor. Harrison + Fox Sts, Johannesburg - June/July 1992 (43 pieces 1966-1976 from a private collection)
Artimex Fine Arts, Basel, Switzerland - November, 1997 - January, 1998 (from a private Collection)
Work on permanent display
Exhibition still - Gallery 101, Johannesburg - 1972
Gallery 101 Johannesburg permanently exhibited works by Esias Bosch in their 3 branches between end of 1965 and 1972.
As from 1971, Gallery 21 Johannesburg permanently exhibited the works by Esias Bosch at their various localities, including their Hyde Park branch in Sandton and Gallery 21 London between 1974 and 1976.
Selected Public and Corporate Commissions
Schlesinger Centre / Wesbank Building, Braamfontein, Johannesburg - 1967 - stoneware mural 1000 sq.ft with 5000+ individual sections
Image from "Esias Bosch" (Struik Winchester, Cape Town) (Bosch/de Waal) 1988, ill. pp. 82/3
Work in progress:
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Jan Smuts Airport International Terminal, Johannesburg - 1972 - 3000+ tiles - 6.4m high, 57.9 m long - demolished when terminal for the new renamed O.R. Tambo Airport was extensively revamped!
Image from "Esias Bosch" (Struik Winchester, Cape Town) (Bosch/de Waal) 1988, ill. pp. 90/1
Selected Public Collections
PELMAMA Permanent Art Collection in the Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria
PELMAMA Permanent Art Collection at the Oliewenhuis Art Museum, Bloemfontein
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Selected Reading
"Potters of Southern Africa" (Struik) (Clark / Wagner) 1974 - ISBN 0 86977 046 2 - pp. 14-25, ill.
OUR ART 3, Pretoria (Foundation for Education, Science and Technology, Pretoria) (van Rooyen) ≈1976, pp. 130-137, ill. - ISBN 0 620 03142 5
"Esias Bosch" (Struik Winchester, Cape Town) (Bosch / de Waal) 1988 - ISBN 0 947 43006 7
„The Dictionary of South African Painters and Sculptors including Namibia“ (Ogilvie / Graff) (Everard Read), 1988 – ISBN 0 620 12663 9 – listed on p. 75
"'n Blou Kameelperdjie vir Oupa" (Human & Rousseau) (Bosch / Voigt) 1991 - ISBN 0 7981 2792 9
"Contemporary Ceramics in South Africa" (Struik Winchester, Cape Town) (Cruise) 1991 - ISBN 0 947430 (28 8 + 29 6 + 30 X)
Selected Press articles
South African Panorama, Pretoria - August, 1962 ("Die ontwikkeling van 'n pottebakker" deur Helen de Leeuw), pp. 21-22, ill.
ARTLOOK 9 Johannesburg, 1967 Vol. 1 No. IX, August, p. 3, ill.
ARTLOOK 11 Johannesburg, 1967 Vol. 1 No. XI, October, p. 7, ill.
ARTLOOK 16 Johannesburg, 1968 Vol. 2 No. 4, March, p. 14, ill.
ARTLOOK 18 Johannesburg, 1968 Vol. 2 No. 8, May, p. 23, ill.
The Star, Johannesburg - 29th November, 1971 (When a signature is not necessary), ill.
The Star, Johannesburg - 10th May, 1973 (Esias Bosch, Master Potter), ill.
Insig - July, 1988 (Met hande wat kan seën), pp. 33-35, ill.
Sunday Star, Johannesburg - 11th September, 1988, pp. 24-26, ill.
South African Country Life, March 2000, pp. 94-95, ill.
Other web references
http://www.mieliestronk.com/bosch.html
http://www.pelmama.org/BOSCH.htm
http://www.pelmama.org/PDFs/PAM_cat2009_pp01-35.pdf (see pp. 20-25 + 28, ill.)
A few images
Auctioned by Sotheby's Johannesburg - 30th August, 2004
Bernardi Auctioneers, Pretoria - May, 2009
Russell Kaplan Auctions, Johannesburg - October, 2011
Strauss & Co., Johannesburg - 11th June, 2012 - Lot 315
Russell Kaplan Auctions, Johannesburg - 30th July, 2016 - Lot P160 - 160x55.5 cm
Esias at home
Esias Bosch with Zakkie Eloff and Anton Bosch in 1966
The home of Esias and Valerie Bosch in 1966
Click on images for a better view - slides from the personal album of FF Haenggi
Updated to 7th August, 2016