Notes

"The key to the immense vitality of Krampe's wild-life studies lay in the intensiveness and patience of his observation."¹ Peter Strack recalls that "Krampe observed game like a hunter. Again and again, its shape, movements and species-specific behaviour were noted, so that he would not only commit the outer shape to memory, but above all, the species-specific characteristics of the animal." ²

1. Esme Berman, Ibid, page 108.

2. Peter Strack, Ibid, page 15.

Provenance

Literature

cf. Esme Berman (1975). The Story of South African Painting. Cape Town and Rotterdam: AA Balkema. A similar example illustrated on page 108.

Peter Strack (2007). Timeless Encounters: Fritz Krampe, A Painter's Life in Africa. Windhoek: Kuiseb Verlag. Illustrated in colour on page 5.