Ons Land/Our Land: The Johannesburg Station Panels revisited - Carl Becker and Monique Pelser

J H Pierneef's Johannesburg Station Panels, made in the early 1930s, are cornerstones of South African landscape painting. They hung in the concourse of the old Johannesburg railway station and depicted 28 views taken from South Africa and Namibia. These highly stylised works have been seen by thousands of people over the past 80 years. In 2007, photographer Monique Pelser and painter Carl Becker independently set out to explore whether these places ever existed and if so what they look like today.

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