Frans David OERDER
1867 – 1944
Paintings, Watercolours and Drawings from the Oerder Family Collection, Pretoria
Frans D. Oerder "Self-portrait", 1937 - img. from Wikipedia
How it happened - Johannesburg 1962
A chance meeting early 1962 with Tom Oerder’s former wife Mrs Schuitemaker at the then famous Chesa Coffee Bar, Rand Central in Jeppe Street, Johannesburg, resulted in a visit to the Oerder family living in Pretoria. There were enough works belonging to Tom (Tom Oerder - 1985† - was the son of Frans Oerder) and his sons Frans, Max, Bob to choose from so that Gallery 101 could arrange two big exhibitions of the Oerder Family Collection in 1963 and 1964! A lot of the unframed drawings were just lying in a pile on the garage floor where one of the sons kept his motorbike!
Selected Family Collection Exhibitions I
1963 Gallery 101, Johannesburg – 15th July, 1963
A gallery director, FML Haenggi, viewing the 1909 portrait of Frans D. Oerder done by Eduard Salomon Frankfort when he was in South Africa - This painting was loaned by a private collector during the Frans Oerder exhibition at Gallery 101 - July 1963 - and also included in the Frans Oerder Retrospective Exhibition at the Pretoria Art Museum in February, 1965, cat. 11
Selected Family Collection Exhibitions II
1964 Gallery 101, Johannesburg – 23rd March to 4th April, 1964 (see invitation card) + brief C.V.
Click on image to read c.v.
Frans D. Oerder “Approaching storm” No. 62 (photographed by Coen C. Oosthuysen)
Selected works on exhibition in 1964
Frans D. Oerder “Two white horses" - oil - 65x86 cm (PAM 1965 cat. 20)
(illustrated in colour in SA Panorama, Pretoria, December, 1964, p. 15, in b/white on cover of Gallery 101 Frans Oerder exhibition invitation card, 1964, and in "The Star" 23rd January, 1964)
Frans D. Oerder “Red Roses” No. 33 (photographed in b/white by Coen C. Oosthuysen)
(illustrated in colour in SA Panorama, Pretoria, December, 1964, p. 15, as “Gerda Oerder-Pitlo”)
Frans D.Oerder "Stable with horses" - oil - 60x103 cm (PAM 1965 cat. 23)
Retrospective Exhibition
Pretoria Art Museum – February/March 1965 (171 works)
(including works from the Gallery 101 Collection: cat. 3-5, 8, 54-59, 61-70, 72-86, 105, 151-156, 159-166)
Click to view full catalogue excluding cat. listing 1-159
Click on image to see installation view - image from the Pretoria Art Museum archives
Selected Publications and Press cuttings
Our Art I, Pretoria, 1959, pp. 85/89, ill
Die Vaderland, Johannesburg – 15th July, 1963
Rand Daily Mail, Johannesburg – 17th July, 1963 (“Attractive Work by Oerder”)
Undated review by Richard Cheales (“Oerder’s master touch”)
The Star, Johannesburg – 23rd January, 1964 (“Oerder collection will cause a stir”) (illustrated)
Die Transvaler, Johannesburg – 25th March, 1964
Die Vaderland, Johannesburg – 16th April, 1964 (“Tekeninge toon rigting van Oerder se krag”)
Rand Daily Mail, Johannesburg – 23rd March, 1964
SA Panorama, Pretoria, December, 1964
ARTLOOK 39, Johannesburg – February, 1970, p. 42
ARTLOOK 45, Johannesburg – August, 1970, pp. 28/29 + cover
ARTLOOK 71, Johannesburg – October, 1971, p. 1
ARTLOOK 88, Johannesburg – March, 1974, p. 8
ARTLOOK 90, Johannesburg – May, 1974, p. 24
LANTERN, Pretoria - 1980 April - Vol. XXIX, No. 2, pp. 42/49
Authenticated works
Tom Oerder and a director of Gallery 101 issued and jointly signed certificates of authenticity – a number of drawings, watercolours and oils were stamped by the SA National Gallery with a facsimile signature stamp.
Family web connection: http://www.oerder.com/Frans/default.htm (Shane Oerder NZ)
Updated 9th August, 2016