Item 13: [Cattle under gum trees], 1932 / by Hans Heysen

ML 1301

item

1932

Graphic Materials, Drawings

1025638

1 drawing - watercolour

Sir Wilhelm Ernst Hans Franz Heysen (1877-1968), was a noted Australian landscape artist. ‘He won the Wynne prize nine times between 1904 and 1932, the Crouch prize in 1931, and the Maude Vizard-Wholohan prize in 1957. He was knighted in 1959.’ Heysen was born on 8 October 1877 in Hamburg, Germany. As a child he migrated to South Australia in 1884 with his family. He developed a deep love of the Adelaide Hills, which remained a constant source of inspiration in his art work. He settled in the Hahndorf countryside in 1912 where he lived and worked for the rest of his life.

References:
Library correspondence file
Australian Dictionary of Biography. http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/heysen-sir-wilhelm-ernst-hans-6657 (accessed March 13, 2013)

Copyright status:: In copyright - Life of creator plus 70 years
Copyright holder:: Hans Heysen
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Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy Hans Heysen

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