Exhibition Launch: Become What You Are
The exhibition 'Become What You Are: The Art of Dunera Boy Paul Mezulianik' will open Sunday, 18 April 2021.
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Available Now: "Art Captured" by Kay Ball
"Art Captured" by Kay Ball tells the story of Hans-Wolter von Gruenewaldt, a German nationalist, engineer and amateur artist, incarcerated in the Goulburn Valley. The book is available through the Murchison Historical Society at a cost of $25.
Klaus Friedeberger obituary
The paintings of Klaus Friedeberger, who has died aged 97, were forged in the dry heat of central Australia during the second world war and fostered in 1950s London, where he began a lifelong inquiry into abstract painting.
Hans Lorraine Exhibition Reopening
WAS Gallery in Warragul is open again as of 25 November 2020. Due to Covid 19 and the big shut downs, the 'Hans Lorraine, Artist, Architect and Dunera Boy' exhibition was cut short and so will remain up at least through the end of the year.
Erwin Fabian Memorial Service
Erwin Fabian, one of Australia's pre-eminent modern artists, died on 19 January 2020. He was 104. A memorial service, originally planned for 19 March at Australian Galleries in Collingwood, has been postponed until further notice.
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Werner and Ilse Baer: A family on the Queen Mary
Miriam Gould tells the story of her parents, Werner and Ilse Baer.
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Phillip Benjamin and the Dunera boys
‘I didn’t really know that many of the people that I had met or had connections with were Dunera boys’, Phillip begins. ‘It only really emerged later.’
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Hans John Lorraine, 19 March 1923 – 14 August 2012
Hans Lorraine was not an internment artist. He started painting in the 1950s, creating a visual chronicle of peacetime Australian life. But he was a Dunera artist.
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Klaus Friedeberger
Klaus Friedeberger (1922-2019) was among the most talented, dynamic and thoughtful of Dunera artists. He was unusual among Dunera artists, and European artists generally, in seeing the mysteries and beauty of the Australian landscape.
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Erwin Fabian
Erwin Fabian died in Melbourne on 19 January 2020, aged 104. Erwin, one of Australia's pre-eminent artists, came to Australia on the Dunera, though he rarely said so. The Dunera boy label was not for him.
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Interviewing Bern Brent
In May, 2019, two of our team travelled to Canberra to interview Bern Brent – in his words, ‘one of the last Dunera boys still vertical’.
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Hannah & Emil - The story of Heinz and Fay Castles
'Am I a writer because this is the sort of thing spilling from the family closet? Or just ‘fortunate’ to be the recipient of others’ painful history?' asks Belinda Castles in an article in the Southerly Journal.
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An enigmatic ‘vagabond’: the Dunera artist Kurt Winkler
Kurt Hans Winkler was born in Germany on 26 February 1902, the fourth child of Protestant parents. His birthplace may have been Gransee, near Berlin, but this isn’t certain. His father, Carl Erhard Wilhelm Balduin Kurt Winkler, died about 1912...
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The Voyage: the Testimony of Georg Chodziesner
Georg Chodziesner's record of the voyage of the Dunera, told coolly and dispassionately, is probably the most important and comprehensive account available to historians.
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From Dunera to Parliament House: Peter Danby
Aboard the first Kindertransport to depart Germany for Britain, Peter Danby (formerly Danziger) could not have known the unlikely journey ahead.
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Finding Emil Wittenberg
We knew we had our work cut out when we started our search for Emil Wittenberg, one of the most prolific of Dunera artists.
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Searching for Jack Kaczynski
While some of the men who came to Australia on the Dunera chose later to speak about their experiences both before the war and on the ship itself – whether to the press, public, or simply to families and friends – there were many who remained silent.
