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Work on paper - Artwork - Printmaking, 'Untitled', by Ludwig Hirshfeld-Mack,
Ludwig HIRSCHFELD-MACK () Born 11 July , Frankfurt am Main, Germany In Hirschfeld-Mack was deported to Australia from England as an enemy alien in the Dunera. He was interned at Hay and Orange, New South Wales, and at Tatura, Victoria. There he made a number of woodcuts that illustrated life under detention. Released in through the sponsorship of (Sir) James Darling, headmaster of Geelong Church of England Grammar School, Hirschfeld-Mack was appointed its art master. He promoted his pupils' self-knowledge, introduced them to avant-garde painting techniques, and encouraged wood-carving, weaving, musical instrument-making, leatherwork and other crafts. (, accessed 29 June ) He died on 7 January at Allambie Heights, Sydney Framed abstract paintingSigned in pencil lower left hand side ' 'art, artists, mack, hirsc
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Most of the Bauhaus students and personal left Germany in the s and made their names in Britain, Israel and the USA. Only one Bauhaus graduate made his life in Australia and yet I cannot even find a Wikipedia entry for him.
Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack () was born in at Frankfurt am Main, son of Ernst Hirschfeld, a manufacturer of leat&#;her goods, and his wife Clara Mack. After attending the Muster gymnasium at Frankfurt am Main, ung Ludwig studied arts and crafts at the Debschitz Schule Munich, and attended lectures in art history at Munich University. Conscripted into the German Army at the outbreak of WWI, he was prom&#;oted lieutenant and won the Iron Cross. He got married in
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1In the s the cultural landscape of Australia was transformed by a group of intellectuals of the Diaspora, who came from Europe and were fascinated by what they found in the Antipodes. Their activities constitute an important part of the critical reception of indigenous art, whether it was ancient rock art or paintings on bark. The decade of the s is a period when those involved in creating the disciplines of art history, anthropology, and archaeology, defined and collected an important part of Australia’s patrimony. Many of the participants came to Australia in the aftermath of the Second World War
2A rather surprising figure in this context was Kenneth Clark – a traveler rather than an immigrant. After his resignation as director of the National Gallery, London, Clark (fig. 1) was appointed adviser to the Felton Bequest for acquisitions of European art for the National Gallery of Victoria, at the suggestion of his friend and protégée, Joseph Burke, newly appointed in