Firstly a huge Thank you to my father, for carefully keeping the documents relating to his uncle, Hugo Naudé. Without them I’d have had no basis for a book update to reawaken interest in the life and work of this pioneer SA artist. Apologies for not showing interest whilst you were still alive.
Thanks too to Joan Jordaan for her beautiful tribute to her uncle and to her daughter Peri Cilliers for allowing me to translate and include as an important part of the book about the artist as human being.
Thanks to Philip Naudé for researching the Naudé history and painstakingly drawing up a family tree/register when already in his 80s.
Thanks also to Gerda Papendorf, Librarian at Still Bay Public Library for managing to get Adriaan Roets 1975 thesis on the artist from Stellenbosch Library – without this brave introduction to Hugo Naudé’s work, I would have been in deep waters and at a loss for words to describe the paintings.
To Hugo Naudé House curator Anél O’Neill for her friendly assistance and dedication.
To Carmen Welz for her support and interesting bits of information & to Strauss & Co. for being able to zoom in to more recent painting sales which enabled me to study the brushstroke technique up close in order to gain insight into the work’s approximate place in his overall painting chronology.
To Dr Julian Kritzinger as Breederivier municipal Councillor and in charge of culture for taking care of the Hugo Naudé House and for all the local information – to be interested in such things at such a young age is indeed unusual.
To UCT Libraries’ Special Collections Principal Archivist Michal Singer and her assistant Masood Malan for scanning so many documents of interest from the BC 597 Brown Family Papers.
To Andrea Lewis, Curator of the Prints and Drawings Collection at Iziko Museum, Cape Town, for scanning images of the artist’s illustrations for his wife Julie’s Stories of Jesus.
To Secretary Arlene Christian at St Paul’s Church, Rondebosch for scanning marriage record which confirmed marriage year date 1914 as opposed to the repeated erroneous 1915.
Last but by no means least, a huge Thanks to my cousin Michael Hugo Naudé for setting up a website so enthusiastically and expertly despite his heavy work schedule.