Press & Exhibition
A period archive — late 1980s and 1990s South African art press, with later exhibitions.
Exhibitions
- 2002Goethe Institute, Johannesburg — group exhibition.
- 2001World Trade Centre, Dallas — group exhibition.
- 2000Decorex, Midrand — group exhibition.
- 1996Law Gallery, Kempton Park — group exhibition.
- 1994Artist's Market, Johannesburg — group exhibition.
- 1990Edrich Gallery, Stellenbosch — group exhibition.
- 1989Sotheby's, Johannesburg; Options / Hospice, Johannesburg — group exhibitions.
- 1988SA Association of Art, Pretoria — solo exhibition.
- 1987Bayerische Landesbank, Munich — solo exhibition.
- 1986Artist's Residence and Amadlozi, Johannesburg; SA Association of Art, Pretoria — solo exhibitions.
- 1984Estelle Rossouw, Pretoria — solo. A joint sculpture-and-batik show with Celia de Villiers.
- 1983Artist's Residence, Johannesburg — solo exhibition.
- 1980Raiffeisenbank, Germany — solo exhibition.
- 1979Windhoek Show, Namibia — group exhibition.
- 1971Lidchi Gallery, Johannesburg — group exhibition.
- 1970Powell Duffryn, London; International Wildlife Congress, San Jose — group exhibitions.
- 1969Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg — solo exhibition.
Awards
- 1981West Rand Art Society, Roodepoort — Sculptor of the Year.
- 1973Afrox Metal Art, Johannesburg — First Prize.
“At present, the arts in South Africa are in a state of glorious decadence. The mainstream of art exhibited today is not based on a knowledge of craftsmanship, but on the inevitable outcome of experimenting with mediums and techniques. This, of course, does not lessen the value or importance of these works, but rather shows them as products of the zeitgeist.” Kurt Lossgott in conversation with Elsa Semmelink, Looking East, 21 September 1994
Selected press
Features and interviews from five decades of South African art press in which the writing is principally about Kurt Lossgott. Named authors where the byline survives. The full archive — sixty-plus clippings and eight catalogues — is held by the family; scholars and writers may contact the family for access.
- 2004Daily Dispatch — front-page coverage of the Madiba and Child unveiling at the Nelson Mandela Academic Hospital, Umtata. Photograph by Lew Elias.
- 2003Beeld, September — Mandela in al sy glorie. Feature on the casting of the four-metre Madiba bronze at Hendrik Joubert's foundry in De Wildt. Afrikaans.
- 2001Sunday Times, 8 April — feature on the Morningside Clinic commission.
- 2000The Citizen, 8 November — Spotlight: A trophy man. By Eugenie du Preez, photographs by Annalien van Zyl.
- 2000De Kat, June — Kaggelrak-KUNS. By Netarja van der Westhuizen, photographs by Alan Keartland. Afrikaans.
- 2000Local press, Umtata — Umtata gets own Mandela statue. By Nandipha Ramadikela, photograph by Alan Eason.
- 1999Germiston City News, 29 January — biographical feature mentioning Schlaraffia and the international metaphysical-society membership.
- 1994Looking East, 21 September — Bringing craftsmanship to art. By Elsa Semmelink.
- 1992Local press — Gateways to an artistic future. Feature on the 1992 Young Artists' Competition organised by Kurt with the Mayor of Johannesburg, Alderman Jan Burger. Publication masthead unverified in the scan.
- 1990The Citizen, Monday 8 January — photograph caption on the Four Musicians of Bremen at the Artists in the Sun exhibition, Zoo Lake.
- 1989Rosebank / Killarney Gazette, 31 May — Nuts and bolts start led to career in art. By Susan Smuts.
- 1988The Citizen and other papers — coverage of the Rand Show banning of the Crucified Pig. By Mike Waddacor (two pieces) and Chris Steyn.
- 1987Sudetenland Bavaria Johannesburg — biographical feature. By Elsa Semmelink. Publication masthead unverified in the scan.
- 1986Business Day, 16 September — career feature (the woodcarver-on-a-bicycle origin story).
- 1986Pretoria coverage — mysticism and metaphysics feature on Kurt and Celia. By Brenda Wilmot. Coincides with the SA Association of Arts solo show, Pretoria. Publication masthead unverified in the scan.
- 1982The Citizen, 7 October — Artists' Market feature (the I'm like Michelangelo, you see… line).
- 1979The Star, Tuesday 29 May — opening of the scrap-metal exhibition at the Artists' Market, Joubert Park. Opened by Dr C.K. Brain, then director of the Transvaal Museum.
- 1974Eastern Echo, December — Africa's Children, the three sable antelopes for Ladysmith Provincial Hospital. Photograph by Geoff Dolglish.
- 1974Eastern Echo, December — Kurt Lossgott's revolving sculpture — a flight of fantasy (the Flying Owl with Child, Johannesburg Zoo).
- 1972Marktoberdorf Stadt und Land, Friday 18 August — Unnützlichem neues Leben geben. Biographical feature during Kurt's Heimaturlaub in Bavaria. German.
- 1969Afrikaans press — sculpture feature on Kurt's Pietermaritzburg exhibition. Publication masthead unverified in the scan; filed under Rapport.