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Rupert Museum

Over 350 works of South African and European art, free to enter.

The Rupert Museum on Stellentia Avenue holds more than 350 works from the private collection assembled by Anton and Huberte Rupert from the 1940s onward, now managed by the Rupert Art Foundation. The South African holdings run from around 1940 to the early 2000s and include Irma Stern, Maggie Laubser and Alexis Preller, shown alongside European sculpture by Auguste Rodin and Kaethe Kollwitz and a group of French tapestries. The building was commissioned in 2003 and opened in February 2005. Entry is free.

The Rupert Museum is the most serious art on offer in Stellenbosch and it costs nothing to walk into, which is an unusual combination anywhere. The collection is private in origin, built by Anton and Huberte Rupert from the 1940s, and it reads as one household’s taste rather than a survey: Irma Stern, Maggie Laubser and Alexis Preller carry the South African rooms, with Rodin and Kaethe Kollwitz sculpture and a set of French tapestries alongside them. The building itself, opened in 2005, is quiet and well lit and does not fight the work. An hour is enough.

Highlights

  • More than 350 works from the private collection of Anton and Huberte Rupert
  • Irma Stern, Maggie Laubser and Alexis Preller alongside Rodin and Kaethe Kollwitz sculpture
  • Free entry, in a purpose-built gallery opened in February 2005

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