Klaus Friedeberger artworks, approximately 1929-1959

PXD 1560
PXX 108

fonds

approximately 1929-1959

Graphic Materials, Drawings, Watercolours, Prints, Posters

9663680

411 drawings
36 watercolours
34 sketchbooks (1289 drawings)
21 prints
17 paintings
3 posters
1 photomechanical print

Klaus Friedeberger (1922-2019) was born in Berlin to a secular Jewish family. In 1938, aged 16, he attended the International Quaker school, Eerde, The Netherlands, a boarding school that also served as a refuge for German and Jewish children persecuted by the Nazi regime. In 1939 he obtained permission to move to Britain as a refugee and was interned as an enemy alien by the British Government the same year. He was deported to Australia on board the Dunera in 1940. In Australia he was interned in camps at Hay, Orange then Tatura.

In Tatura he was one of many internees who were offered release from internment in return for agreeing to serve in the 8th Australian Employment Company of the Australian Army. He was discharged on 22 August 1946.

In 1947 Friedeberger enrolled at East Sydney Technical College under the Commonwealth Reconstruction Training Scheme. In 1950, after completing his studies, he sailed to Europe on the proceeds of the Mosman Art Prize, then settled in London. He met New Yorker Julie Klorman in 1960 and they married in 1962. He continued painting and held his first solo exhibition in the Hamilton Galleries in 1963. To support his painting, he worked mainly in advertising and graphic design, and taught at the Central School and London College of Printing. He ceased this work by the early 1980s and continued painting for nearly forty years, with his artworks included in exhibitions and collections in Europe and Australia. Klaus Friedeberger died in London in 2019.

References:
Coppel, Stephen. Klaus Friedeberger : works 1940-1970. London: England and Co. 2007
'Klaus Friedeberger'. Dunera Stories. Monash University. Accessed 30 March 2022.
https://www.dunerastories.monash.edu/dunera-stories.html
Library acquisition file

Series 01: Friedeberger juvenilia (Call no. PXD 1560/Boxes 1-2)

Series 02: Friedeberger sketchbooks and portfolios of loose drawings (Call no. PXD 1560/Boxes 3-7)

Series 03: Friedeberger drawings from the Dunera and the train journey from Sydney to Hay (Call no. PXD 1560/Box 8)

Series 04: Friedeberger artworks from Australian internment camps (Call no. PXD 1560/Boxes 9-13)

Series 05: Friedeberger drawings from Australian Army, 8th Employment Company (Call no. PXD 1560/Boxes 14-15)

Series 06: Friedeberger East Sydney Technical College artworks (Call no. PXD 1560/Boxes 16-20, 25-29, PXX 108/Folders 1-3)

Series 07: Friedeberger monotypes (Call no. PXD 1560/Box 21)

Series 08: Friedeberger watercolours made during travels around Australia (Call no. PXD 1560/Box 22)

Series 09: Artworks by William Dobell, Erwin Fabian and Hein Heckroth (Call no. PXD 1560/Box 23, PXX 108/Folder 4)

Series 10: Friedeberger miscellaneous small sketches and drawings (Call no. PXD 1560/Box 24)

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