Zakkie eloff biography of michael
Born in , Eloff studied at Pretoria Boys High under Walter Battiss and at Wits Technical College under Maurice van Essche....
Zacharias (Zakkie) Eloff ( - ) was painter and graphic artist of wildlife, Zakkie Eloff worked in oil, watercolour, ink, wash, monotype and etching.
A painter and graphic artist of wildlife, Zakkie Eloff worked in oil, watercolour, ink, wash, monotype and etching. He studied at Pretoria Boys High School under Walter Battiss (qv) and at Witwatersrand Technical College, under Maurice van Essche (qv), James Gardner (qv) and Phyllis Gardner (qv).
In 1957 Zakkie Eloff studied graphic techniques at the Central School of Art, London; etching under Dolf Rieser (qv).
Between 1958 and 1962 Zakkie taught at Pretoria Techinical College and from 1961 until 1962 he taught at University of Pretoria.
He has illustrated various books. Between 1962 and 1968 Zakkie worked as a Game Ranger in the Etosha Game Reserve, Namibia.
Buy Ghoera by Hennie Aucamp, Zakkie Eloff from Waterstones today!From 1969 he has lived and worked in the Eastern Transvaal Lowveld.
The following is an extract from: Berman’s Art and Artists of South Africa by Esmé Berman (Southern Book Publishers : 1993)
A man of the veld, at his most comfortable in wide-open spaces.
1958-61 lecturer in painting at Pretoria Tech; married
