François Krige was born in 1913 in Uniondale, Western Cape, the fourth son in a distinguished Afrikaans family that had lived in South African for more than ten generations. In 1927, he enrolled at the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town and in 1934 he visited England briefly before joining his brother Uys (the poet Uys Krige) in Spain, where he continued his art studies un