Prof DM Joubert

Portrait of Prof DM Joubert by the South African artist, Louis van Heerden (b.1941) painted in 1992. Professor Daniel (Danie) Malan Joubert (1929-1994) was the eighth Principal (Rector) of the University of Pretoria and his tenure, stretched between 1982 and 1991. Danie Joubert was also involved with the formal establishment of the university museums. Joubert's formal portrait is done in front of the JH Pierneef oil painting, “Tree’s in a Drift”. The official commission of key portraits and hence, the foundation of what is referred to as the portrait collection within the University of Pretoria, began on 9 September 1974. Prof AN Pelzer (Vice-Rector) suggested that the university commence a commission of key portraits of former Chancellors, Chairs of the Council and Principals or Rectors. Short Biography: Louis van Heerden was born in 1941 in Pietersburg (today Polokwane) in the Northern Province of South Africa. Van Heerden studied his post graduate degree at the University of Pretoria and thereafter went to the Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten or the Academy for Fine Arts in Amsterdam, in The Netherlands .Van Heerden was also an art teacher at the Pretoria Boys High School, along with other South African artists such as Walter Battiss and Larry Scully who also held art teacher position at this seminal school for boys. In 1979 Van Heerden, was elected as President of the South African Art Association.