Drawings of Sydney streets and buildings, 1950-1968 / drawn by F.B. Lamberger

PXA 1268

fonds

1950-1968

Graphic Materials, Drawings

913132

28 drawings - pen and ink on paper - 17 x 25 cm-28 x 19 cm

Frederick B. Lamberger was born into a Jewish family in Budapest, Hungary, on 9 May 1907. In 1937 he moved to England to study English. When his passport expired, rather than return to army conscription in Hungary, he went to France, joined the French Underground, was arrested by the Nazis and liberated by the United States at the end of World War II.

Following the end of the war, he was joined in France by his older sister, Catherine Gluck and in 1950 they emigrated to Australia where Frederick worked as a tram driver. He reputedly brought the first cappuccino machine to Sydney, opening a coffee shop 'The Rialto' opposite the fire station in Victoria Street. He later ran a shop in 'The Village' in Kings Cross, dealing in fine art and books.

A prolific pen artist, he died, unmarried, in 1986.

Owned by the artist's sister, Catherine Gluck (1906-2006), a Holocaust survivor and volunteer at the Sydney Jewish Museum. The drawings had been left at the Jewish Museum, possibly following an exhibition of the drawings organised, it is believed, by Gluck. Lamberger and his sister, Catherine Gluck, died without descendants.

1. Annandale Street, 1950
2. Washington, 29 Oct 1955
3. Rushcutters Bay (Chevron), 1959
4. Changte ferry, 7.3.60
5. Sydney, 9.5.60. Verso: `From Ancha House Bridge near George St'
6. Farrell Place, Sydney, 1960
7. Forbes Street, Sydney, 9.8.60
8. Double Bay, 17.7.60
9. Verso: MacMahon's Pt wharf "Waterglean" Bldg, 20.3.66
10. Verso: East Sydney Technical College, 19.5.61
11. nr Central Sydney, 4.8.61. Verso: Victoria St Kings X, 14.7.61
12. Randwick Junction, 1961
13. O'Connell Street, 1961
14. Verso: Eliz Bay from no. 10 House flat 404, 2.5.1962
15. Verso: Phillip & Bent St, 2.5.62
16. View to Bathurst St, 1962
17. Verso: Plaza Bldg Aust. Square Construction, 26.12.64
18. Kidman Lane Paddington, 27.12.64
19. Eliz Bay, 23.2.66
20. Verso: Magney Lane & Old South Head Rd Bondi Junction, 29.3.66
21. Verso: D'hurst Rd & Liverpool St, 24.3.66
22. Penrith Station, 26.4.66
23. Verso: Waterboard House, 18.8.66
24. Verso: Bathurst St from Park, 6.1.67
25. Verso: Lane nr Bayswater Rd, 18 Jan 1967
26. Verso: Springfield Lane, Kings Cross, 20.3.1967
27. Albion Street, 11.8.67
28. Bathurst St, 25.8.68

Chronological

Copyright status:: In copyright - Life of Artist plus 70 years
Copyright holder:: Not known
Approval for reproduction required:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder

Biography written by artist's sister:¶Frederick B. Lamberger : the man and his art / by Catherine Gluck, Potts Point, ca 1990.

Signed, lower right, `F.B. Lamberger; and dated