South Africa Guide
Gauteng
Anton van Wouw's house
Address: 299 Clark St, Brooklyn
Opening time: Mon– Fri 10am–4pm
Price: Free
To visit the elegant house and museum of acclaimed Afrikaner sculptor Anton van Wouw, you'll need to head to the wealthy suburb of Brooklyn. Van Wouw was responsible for most of the brooding effigies of Afrikaner public figures from the 1890s to the 1930s scattered around the country, including the Kruger statue in Pretoria's Church Square. His most famous work is at the Voortrekker Monument. The museum, designed by the celebrated architect Norman Eaton in 1938, houses a collection of his smaller pieces. Van Wouw's figures tend to be placed in rural settings, but here you'll find two striking, non-rural pieces, one of a mine worker, the other an accused man standing in the dock. Keep an eye out, too, for The Guitar Player, a feisty-looking woman strumming away with a trace of a smile on her face.