In the early 1980s Derek Jooste put together this fantastic article on the life of iconic artist, sculptor and designer Ernest Ullmann. The piece was originally published in the journal of the Sandton Historical Association.
Sandton is too young to boast a Hall of Fame. It has grown too quickly and its people have forgotten to look back. What was a cluster of farms only thirty years ago, is now a fast growing town. The people who inhabited those farms are the forefathers of Sandton and we must look at their lives in an attempt to reveal the town’s cultural heritage.
A fast growing city (The Heritage Portal)
Ernest Ullmann’s work adorns so much of our urban landscape. Indeed, a visitor, or a newcomer visiting out Civic Centre for the first time will immediately notice two of his sculptures set in the grass outside the building – one of a horse, and the other depicting some buck. In fact, the Civic Centre has a grand store of Ullmann’s sculptures, maquettes and tapestries, some hidden behind the leaves and the pot plants, some in official corridors and luckily some in public view as are those outside. [Alas no more]
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