Strauss & co - 15 October 2018, Cape Town

238 530 Fritz Krampe SOUTH AFRICAN 1913-1966 Wild Dogs inscribed with the title in German on two Peter and Regina Strack labels with accession number 141 and collection number 38 adhered to the reverse tempera on paper 56,5 by 76,5cm R  –   PROVENANCE The Late Peter and Regina Strack Collection. LITERATURE cf. Esmé 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. “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. Esmé Berman, Ibid , page 108. 2. Peter Strack, Ibid , page 15. PROPERTY OF THE LATE PETER AND REGINA STRACK COLLECTION LOTS 514-533