Erich Mayer South African 1876-1960 Campsite (St Helena) signed and dated 1901 watercolour 10 by 16cm
Appointed Assistant Land-Surveyor at Vrede soon after his arrival from Germany in 1898, Erich Mayer joined a Boer commando at the outbreak of the Anglo-Boer War. Captured by British forces as the Siege of Mafeking was lifted, the artist boarded the prisoner train to Cape Town in June 1900, bound for the guarded, Deadwood Camp on the Island of St Helena. Mayer and his fellow prisoners arrived in Jamestown late that June, joining the already considerable number of Boer men confined to the rows of sagging military tents and makeshift shacks. Typically, Mayer wasted little time recording the conditions, characters and events around him, always in his small-scale, charming and straightforward style.
Erich Mayer South African 1876-1960 Campsite (St Helena) signed and dated 1901 watercolour 10 by 16cm
Appointed Assistant Land-Surveyor at Vrede soon after his arrival from Germany in 1898, Erich Mayer joined a Boer commando at the outbreak of the Anglo-Boer War. Captured by British forces as the Siege of Mafeking was lifted, the artist boarded the prisoner train to Cape Town in June 1900, bound for the guarded, Deadwood Camp on the Island of St Helena. Mayer and his fellow prisoners arrived in Jamestown late that June, joining the already considerable number of Boer men confined to the rows of sagging military tents and makeshift shacks. Typically, Mayer wasted little time recording the conditions, characters and events around him, always in his small-scale, charming and straightforward style.
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