Scholtz (J. Du P.) D.C.BOONZAIER EN PIETER WENNING First edition.152 pages, colour frontispiece of

First edition.152 pages, colour frontispiece of Keeromstraat, 2 black and white plates, 143 black and white illustrations, textured cream cloth, a very good copy in the dust jacket.

Johannes du Plessis Scholtz (14 May 1900 – 26 January 1990) was a South African philologist, art historian, and art collector. He became interested in the fine arts at the height of classical modernism's zenith. In 1923, while at the National Press, he met the "famous and feared" D. C. Boonzaier, cartoonist and supporter of the fine arts in Cape Town.

Through Boonzaier he became acquainted with art critic Bernard Lewis and sculptor Moses Kottler . Eventually, his circle of artist-friends was to include the painters Enslin du Plessis, Jean Welz, Florence Zerffi and Irma Stern, the graphic artist Katrine Harries, and, less intimately, Hendrik Pierneef, Erich Mayer, and Ruth Prowse, the members of a school of South African Impressionism in the years 1915-1935. This was perhaps the most important epoch in South African art, and Scholtz was there for all of it. Scholtz's literary friends were famous in South Africa: M.E.R., N.P. van Wyk Louw, Dirk Opperman, and Boerneef. This work describes in detail the friendship between Boonzaaier and Pieter Wenning. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_du_Plessis_Scholtz