• Title
  [Portrait of Johann Georg Lollbach], 1869 / watercolour by Conrad Wagner
• Creator
  Conrad Wagner, ca. 1818-1910
• Call number
  DG 414
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1869
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  446318
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 watercolour - possibly over-painted photograph - 55 x 40 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Johann Lollbach and his wife Magdelana left Germany for Australia in 1852, where they were employed as general labourers and vine-dressers on Edward Ogilvie's Yulgilbar station. Ogilvie had arranged with the Hamburg Consul in Sydney to recruit German workers, particularly vine-dressers, for his property. Johann was naturalised in 1860 and the couple settled permanently in the Grafton region, where they purchased a property at Copmanhurst.
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Title supplied by family descendant, Mrs H. Plowman, 1987. Portrait was previously thought to be Jacob Lollbach, brother of Johann Georg Lollbach.
• General note
  
  This portrait forms a pair with DG 415.
  
  Artist Conrad Wagner (c.1818-1910) was born in Offenbach, Germany, and emigrated to Australia in the 1850s. From the early 1860s he worked as a painter and photographer at a studio in Prince Street, Grafton. Photographer, J. W. Lindt worked for him from 1863. Wagner enjoyed a high local reputation and always retained strong ties with the local German community.
  For further information on Wagner see ML DOC 866 and 'The Artist and the Patron' / by Patricia McDonald and Barry Pearce. Sydney, NSW : Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1988. Images also reproduced in 'Faces of Australia' / by Richard Neville. Sydney, NSW : State Library of NSW Press, 1992.
  Digital order no:a928212
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed and dated "C. Wagner 1869'
• Name
  Lollbach, Johann Georg
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  Germans
  portraits
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Faces of Australia: image, reality and the portrait. - State Library of New South Wales (25 May - 12 October, 1992)
  The Artist and the patron - Art Gallery of New South Wales (February, 1988 - May, 1988)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3323961

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