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[Professor] J. du P. Scholtz - Moses Kottler: His Cape Years
[Professor] J. du P. Scholtz - Moses Kottler: His Cape Years [Professor] J. du P. Scholtz - Moses Kottler: His Cape Years [Professor] J. du P. Scholtz - Moses Kottler: His Cape Years [Professor] J. du P. Scholtz - Moses Kottler: His Cape Years

[Professor] J. du P. Scholtz - Moses Kottler: His Cape Years

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Moses Kottler: His Cape Years (De Luxe Signed Edition)
A Masterful Monograph Celebrating One of South Africa’s Supreme Sculptural Pioneers
Bibliographic Specifications
  • Title: Moses Kottler: His Cape Years
  • Author: Professor J. du P. Scholtz
  • Publisher: Tafelberg Publishers, Cape Town
  • Publication Date: 1976
  • ISBN-10: 0624009025
  • ISBN-13: 9780624009023
  • Edition Details: True First Edition, Limited De Luxe Issue. From a total run of 1,500 copies, this is one of only 100 specially bound De Luxe copies. Numbered 4/100 and signed by the author.
  • Binding: Premium publisher's quarter chocolate brown leather over fine oatmeal-coloured cloth sides, spine lettered in gold gilt.
  • Physical Format: Quarto (4to, 285 x 240 mm). 134 pages. Richly illustrated with a vibrant colour frontispiece self-portrait, followed by 82 dedicated pages showcasing numerous photographic plates of Kottler's paintings and sculptures, complete with a full catalogue raisonné.
Official Condition Report
The Book: Very Good to Near Fine (VG+)
  • Exterior: The premium quarter chocolate brown leather spine is supple and structurally flawless with sharp gilt lettering. The oatmeal cloth boards are clean, flat, and free of moisture staining or shelf scuffing. Corners remain sharp and square.
  • Interior: The text block is solid, square, and tightly bound. Crisp, clean pages throughout. Minimal, perfectly standard age-toning present on the preliminary endpapers, otherwise immaculate. Free of owner signatures, bookplates, text highlighting, or institutional stamps.
The Dust Jacket: Not Applicable (As Issued)
  • Note: This elite 100-copy De Luxe leather-bound variant was issued directly by the publisher without a paper dust jacket to showcase the premium binding.
Synopsis & Art-Historical Significance
Published in 1976, Professor J. du P. Scholtz’s Moses Kottler: His Cape Years stands as the definitive academic evaluation of the critical, formative period in the life of a master.
Focusing heavily on the decade Kottler spent in the Western Cape, the volume bridges his classical European training with his profound absorption of South African light, landscapes, and portraiture subjects. The work provides deep visual context across 82 pages of illustrations, systematically detailing his evolutionary transition between classical realism, subtle impressionistic modeling, and early modernism. Featuring an authoritative, exhaustive resource catalogue, this specific low-number De Luxe copy is an invaluable academic tool and a blue-chip investment piece for collectors of South African fine art literature.
Biographical Profiles
Moses Kottler (1892–1977) is widely venerated alongside Anton van Wouw and Lippy Lipshitz as one of the three foundational titans of South African sculpture. Uniquely distinguished among his peers, Kottler also possessed brilliant mastery over pictorial media; his extensive work in oils earned him separate, significant critical acclaim as a painter. Renowned for his intimate, soulful bust portraits and high-profile public monuments, his legacy remains permanently etched into the fabric of 20th-century global art history.
Professor J. du P. Scholtz was a prominent South African academic, cultural historian, and art critic. Known for his rigorous research and elite monographs on foundational regional artists, his texts remain essential foundational cornerstones for modern auction houses, curators, and institutional valuation boards.

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