Views of Sydney, chiefly Woolloomooloo and East Sydney, ca. 1955 / photographed by Hans M Landecker

PXE 866
ON 242

fonds

1950s

Graphic Materials, Photographs, Ephemera

411843

Photographs - 29 silver gelatin photoprints - 30 x 40 cm. or smaller
Ephemera - 1 exhibition catalogue - 17 x 11 cm. - Single folded cardboard sheet
Photographs - 134 photonegative strips - 35 mm. - filed in 23 sheets each holding up to 6 strips per sheet

Son of Siegfried (Fritz) and Paula Landecker (nee Rosengold), Hans Landecker (1906-1978) was a Jew who migrated from Germany to Australia during the 1930s, with his first wife Eva (nee Segall), and their daughter Kathrine, born in 1935. The family spent six months in London before being accepted by Australia as stateless refugees. They arrived in Sydney in September 1939. Their son Thomas was born in 1941 in Australia.
Hans, a physician, worked in Australia until the late 1950s when he returned to Germany working first in Munich before taking up a position as Medical Superintendent at the Israelitisches Krankenhaus in Hamburg. Divorced from Eva, Hans had married Susanne Nuttall (nee Blum) in the mid 1950s. Following Hans' retirement he returned to Sydney where ill-health and dementia plagued his final years until his death.
Hans pursued amateur photography throughout his life
Further biographical information and anecdotes held with file 1867/97

1. Exhibition catalogue entitled "25 Years of Photography presented by Dr. H. M. Landecker, 24th August to 9th September, 1959 at the Paxton Galleries, 308 George Street, Sydney". 88 photos listed, some of Sydney scenes
Photographs - PXE 688:
2-3. [Yachts on Sydney Harbour]
4. [Man and dog in Royal Botanical Gardens watch activities on the Harbour. Fort Denison in background]
5. [Sydney Harbour. A small boat in the foreground weighs anchor. Sydney Harbour Bridge in background]
6. [Sydney Harbour Bridge from Dawes Point]
7. [Jetty on Sydney Harbour. Fort Denison in background]
8. [People on a jetty in Woolloomooloo Bay. Naval dockyard and Royal Botanical Gardens in background]
9-10. [Elevated view of Bourke Street and East Sydney, including Bell's Hotel at 1 Bourke Street, East Sydney]
11-13. [Corner shops, including a newsagency on the corner of Bourke and Nicholson Streets, Woolloomooloo, a lottery agency and a coffee lounge entrance]
14-19. [Unidentified people sitting or standing around and socialising on unnamed streets of inner Sydney, probably Woolloomooloo]
20. [An old man watches something out of frame, in a park]
21. [Smoke billows from stacks on an unnamed building]
22. [Bush views]
23. [Maximilian Feuerring, Polish born Australian painter, teacher and lecturer, possibly painting a portrait of Hans]
24. [House and washing in coastal location]
25. [Man fishing from a Sydney Harbour jetty in defiance of sign prohibiting fishing]
26. [Man sits reading outside a terrace house, probably in Woolloomooloo]
27. [Newsagency, probably in Woolloomooloo]
28. [Bourke Street corner store, Woolloomooloo]
29. [A small group of adults, including some tram conductors, gather together outside 5 Elizabeth Street. Elizabeth House and a tram are in the background]
30. [A crowd outside shops in Martin Place]
Photonegatives - ON 242:
Bush scenes (possibly Kurrajong, where Hans owned land), Landecker family portraits, artwork and carvings, Sydney Harbour scenes, picnics and other social gatherings are documented. 1957

Photonegatives in photographer's arrangement

Reference source:
Encyclopedia of Australian Art / Alan McCulloch. Victoria: Hutchinson Group, 1977
Some negative sleeves contain more than one negative strip
Two photographs (PXE 866 No.2,5) have a matching negative available at ON 242/4

Photonegative sheets are dated and contain details of the type of camera and film used, written in pencil by photographer however only the dates are consistently legible