Ezrom Legae
Ezrom Legae (1938–1999) was a South African sculptor and draughtsman.
Born in Vrededorp, Johannesburg, Legae studied at the beginning in 1959; from 1960 until 1964 he attended the and worked with Cecil Skotnes and . In 1965 he became a teacher, subsequently becoming codirector of the Jubilee Art Centre. In 1970 he received a scholarship that allowed him to travel to Europe and the United States; between 1972 and 1974 he was director of the .
Legae worked full-time as an artist; he lived in Soweto with his family until his death.
Legae is best known for his powerful visual commentaries on the pathos and degradation of apartheid - a critique he extended to the persistence of poverty and racism in the post-apartheid years. He excelled as painter and sculptor of figures, heads and animals working with oil, conté, bronze, clay and mixed media.
References[]
- Bio at the National Museum of African Art
- South African History Online
- Peffer-Engels, John (1999). "In Memoriam: Ezrom Kgobokanyo Sebata Legae, 1938-1999". African Arts. UCLA James S. Coleman African Studies Center. 32 (3): 17+85–86. JSTOR 3337706.
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