PETER SCHÜTZ, An Eye on the World

112pp., colour illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2015

Published in conjunction with the exhibition, Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg, 2015.

Contributions include:

"Of Relics, Icons and Idols: The carved figures of Peter Schütz" by Walter Oltmann

"The Wits Art Museum Collections: Tracing African influences in the work of Peter Schütz" by Fiona Rankin-Smith. 

Sculptor Peter Schütz was born in Germany in 1942. He won the Standard Bank Young Artist Award in 1984, the Cape Town Triennial Gold Medal in 1988, and represented South Africa in Chile and in Morocco at official presentations. He taught at the Technikon Natal and the University of the Witwatersrand, and maintained sculpture studios at Wits and in KwaZulu-Natal. He died in 2008.