Willie Grobler

Eloff, Fanie; Moloney, Melita

dc.contributor.author	Eloff, Fanie
dc.contributor.author	Moloney, Melita
dc.date.accessioned	2016-07-07T13:19:26Z
dc.date.available	2016-07-07T13:19:26Z
dc.date.created	1942
dc.date.issued	2011
dc.description	Willie Grobler was a cousin and a close friend of Fanie Eloff who visited him several times in Paris. During Grobler’s visit, after the First World War in 1920, he was ‘kidnapped’ by Franz Lehar (1870 - 1948), an Austrian composer, and Eloff saved him by flying to Vienna in his small Gipsy Moth plane. Due to this close relationship Eloff used Grobler as the model for all his Faun sculptures . The plaster of this work is in the University of Pretoria Art Collection and the bronze bust remains in the possession of the Grobler family.	en_ZA
dc.format.extent	345 mm	en_ZA
dc.format.medium	Plaster of Paris	en_ZA
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2263/54389
dc.relation.ispartofseries	UP-Art: paintings, drawings and sculptures, The complete works of Fanie Eloff	en_ZA
dc.rights	Copyright of the electronic version, University of Pretoria.	en_ZA
dc.subject	Franz Lehar (1870 - 1948)	en_ZA
dc.subject	First World War	en_ZA
dc.subject.lcsh	Sculptors -- South Africa
dc.subject.lcsh	Arts, Modern -- 20th century
dc.title	Willie Grobler	en_ZA
dc.type	Still Image	en_ZA