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Title
File 01: Dunera sketchbook, 1940, by Robert Hofmann
Call number
PXD 1568/Box 1
Level of description
file
Date

1940
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Drawings
Reference code
9661596
Physical Description
1 sketchbook (49 drawings) - pencil - 11.4 x 17.8 cm
Scope and Content
1. Front cover
2. To sea / Robert Hofmann
3. Huyton / Robert Hofmann
4. Guard at Huyton / Robert Hofmann
5. Fritz Kupferberg but not gold, A trained worker, Huyton / Robert Hofmann
6. On the way, Huyton / Robert Hofmann
7. Dunera / Robert Hofmann
8. Huyton / Robert Hofmann
9. Huyton / Robert Hofmann
10. Huyton / Robert Hofmann
11. Huyton / Robert Hofmann
12. Robert Hofmann vignettes of men in hammocks, seated with head down
13. Robert Hofmann drawing of guards on deck of HMT Dunera
14. Robert Hofmann sketch of man resting with head on his arm
15. Robert Hofmann drawings of five portraits
16. Robert Hofmann drawings of portraits
17. Tischvater, Kurt Dudek, Dunera / Robert Hofmann
18. Robert Hofmann drawing of man at table eating
19. Robert Hofmann drawing of men cleaning
20. Robert Hofmann drawings of figures resting heads on table, standing man looking through porthole
21. Robert Hofmann drawing of man sitting, interior of ship
22. Stampfl, Meyer / Robert Hofmann
23. Robert Hofmann drawing of group of men
24. Robert Hofmann drawing of group of men below deck
25. Walter Balnemones, Archimedes Jun / Robert Hofmann
26. Unabated card players / Robert Hofmann
27. Robert Hofmann drawings of four portraits
28. Robert Hofmann drawing of group of men below deck
28. Sort of cleaning / Robert Hofmann
30. Robert Hofmann sketch of group of men below deck
31. Washing / Robert Hofmann
32. Shower bath / Robert Hofmann
33. Performance / Robert Hofmann
34. In the hammocks, Performance / Robert Hofmann
35. An old pirate face, Dunera, 30 July 1940 / Robert Hofmann
36. Kashuring / Robert Hofmann
37. Seasick / Robert Hofmann
38. Kafka / Robert Hofmann
39. Robert Hofmann sketch of man lying down
40. Robert Hofmann drawing of view of a port with cranes
41. Robert Hofmann sketch of harbour, possibly Cape Town with Table Mountain in background
42. Robert Hofmann drawing of view of shore
43. Robert Hofmann sketch of view of shore through porthole
44. Robert Hofmann sketch of side of ship, lighthouse
45. Robert Hofmann sketch of small boat along shore
46. Robert Hofmann sketch of Sydney Harbour Bridge
47. Robert Hofmann sketch of small boat
48. Robert Hofmann sketch of built structures, steam boat
49. Hay Gaol Hospital, cell nr 11, 7 September 1940 / Robert Hofmann
50. Cell nr 11, Hay Gaol, from 6.9.40, 21.V.41 / Robert Hofmann
51. Rear cover
Copying Conditions
In copyright:
Copyright holder:: State Library of New South Wales
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
General note

No. 4: Fritz Kupferberg was the only person on Dunera with that surname. No. 15: Middle portrait possibly of Stefan Zuckerbaecker, born 1917, (later Stefan Baker). No. 16: Kurt Dudek was from Freiberg in Germany, born 19 March 1908. No. 21: Franz Stampfl was the only person on Dunera with that surname. No. 24: Later Walter Hill, born Berlin, 2 January 1920. No. 37: Karl Kafka, born Vienna, 10 July 1892
Signatures / Inscriptions

No. 34: Signed 'Robert Hofmann' in lower right corner
Subject
Dunera (Ship)
World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--Australia--Pictorial works.
Political refugees--Australia.
Jewish refugees--Australia.
Dunera: Stories of Internment.
Exhibited in

Enemy Alien: The Dunera boys at Orange, 1941 - Orange Regional Museum (November 2022 - April 2023)
Dunera: Stories of Internment - State Library of New South Wales (August 2024 - May 2025)
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