Sculptor Lucas Sithole is born in KwaThema

Date: 15 Nov 1931
Updated: 30 Sep 2019

Sculptor Lucas Sithole is born in KwaThema

Lucas Sithole, renowned South African sculptor, was born in KwaThema, Springs, Transvaal (now Gauteng) to a Zulu father and a Swazi mother. He created more than 800 sculptures in wood, stone liquid steel and bronze. Sithole often used to give an explanation why he made his sculptures. As one of South Africa's best known sculptors internationally, about 200 works are in collections in the Americas and Europe.

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01Rankin, E. (1989). Images of Wood: aspects of the history of sculpture in 20th-century South Africa, Johannesburg: Johannesburg Art Gallery, p. 165.

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South African History Online. (2011, March 16). Sculptor Lucas Sithole is born in KwaThema. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0011522

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South African History Online. "Sculptor Lucas Sithole is born in KwaThema." South African History Online. March 16, 2011. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0011522.