George Teltscher Adams artwork from Hay internment camp and return voyage on S.S. Themistocles

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1928-1963, predominant 1940-1941

Graphic Materials, Watercolours, Drawings, Prints, Photographs, Textual Records

9651338

61 watercolours (on 51 sheets)
55 drawings (on 44 sheets)
10 prints
1 negative
4 photographic prints
2 postcards
0.81 metres of textual material (1 folder, 5 boxes)

Georg Teltscher was born in Vienna, Austria in 1904. From 1921-1923 he studied at the Bauhaus art school in the Weimar Republic of Germany, under its founder Walter Gropius, and then worked as a graphic designer and theatre set designer. In 1938, before the outbreak of World War II, he left Vienna and went to London, adopting his American mother's maiden name Adams and anglicising his first name to become known as George Adams.

When war was declared in 1939, the British government interned many German, Austrian and Italian foreigners as ‘enemy aliens.’ George was interned and deported, along with more than 2,000 other internees, to Australia on the H.M.T. Dunera. He was released from internment in Australia in 1941 and returned to the U.K. George Adams died in 1983.

Series 1: Hay camp watercolours, drawings and prints
Series 2: Portraits of Hay camp internees
Series 3: Return journey on SS Themistocles
Series 4: Hay camp currency
Series 5: Paper model of a camp hut, by Eli Rosenbluth
Series 6: Photographs of Hay camp and postcard of S.S. Themistocles
Series 7: Art and graphic arts periodicals

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