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Register Report for Pieter Janszoon
Generation 1
1. Pieter Janszoon-1 was born in Broekerhaven, Bovenkarspel, Netherlands.
Pieter Janszoon and unknown spouse married. They had the following children:
2. i. Jan Pietersz Louw was born in 1628 in Caspel Ter Maere Netherlands. He married
Beatrice Weijman on 23 Aug 1661 in Cape, South Africa. He died on 09 May 1691.
Generation 2
2. Jan Pietersz Louw-2 (Pieter-1) was born in 1628 in Caspel Ter Maere Netherlands. He died on 09
May 1691.
Beatrice Weijman was born in 1639 in Utrecht, Netherlands. She died in 1722.
Jan Pietersz Louw and Beatrice Weijman were married on 23 Aug 1661 in Cape, South Africa. They
had the following children:
3. i. Pieter Jansz Louw was born on 17 Jul 1667. He married Elizabeth Wendels on 29 Nov
1693 in Cape Town, South Africa. He died in May 1713.
ii. Annetje Louw. She married Willem Jansz De Werdel on 09 Aug 1685. She died in 1699.
iii. Claes Louw. He died in 1692.
iv. Margaretha Louw.
4. v. Jacobus Louw was born on 21 Jan 1680. He married Maria van Brakel on 22 Jan 1702 in
Cape Town, South Africa. He died in Jul 1713.
Hubbeke Reijniers.
Jan Pietersz Louw and Hubbeke Reijniers were married in Netherlands. They had no children.
Generation 3
3. Pieter Jansz Louw-3 (Jan

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Roelof Louw: Naked Lunch

Roelof Louw, an artist of international prominence, initially began making screen prints as a complement to his 2006 exhibition of neon works, Who the Villains. Louw soon found, however, that the graphic nature of screen printing presented him with the perfect opportunity to explore a deep-seeded interest in the affect of advertising upon our 'physical and psychic lives'. As a result in 2007 he began a series of screen prints in which he appropriated icons from advertising and altered them in such a way that they became antithetical to their original meaning. These prints now form a new exhibition entitled Naked Lunch, opening 15 March at 34FineArt in Cape Town's Buchanan Square in Woodstock. Featuring sixteen limited edition screen prints in which popular icons have been re-worked, abstracted and ultimately recharged, this exhibition represents the artist's invasion into the domain of advertising.

At the heart of these works are the controversies of today's ethical issues which Louw ironically wraps in upbeat and attractive packages. Beneath the glitter and festive colours are a series of images designed to challenge our sense of good-and-evil and right-and-wrong. Louw plays with the way we respond, as he cleverly uses composition and colour t