Hirschfeld-Mack, Ludwig

Hay camp

Hay

Dunera

Hirschfeld-Mack, Ludwig

PXA 7728 , P4/51

1Drayv09

Digitised

In copyright
Please acknowledge : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy the Estate of Christopher Michael Bell

1940 to 1943

Contents
7 watercolours – 79 x 58 cm or smaller – watercolour and gouache
1 print – 21 x 14 cm – woodcut

These watercolours and woodcut were created by Dunera internee Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack whilst interned in Hay, Orange and Tatura internment camps during the Second World War, or after his release. Hirschfeld-Mack had studied and taught at the Weimar Bauhaus school.

Notes
Signature / Inscriptions
Some works are signed by artist

Conservation note
Frames and original mounts removed for preservation reasons in 2024

Description source
Titles taken from original mounts or vendor catalogue

Object History
‘The estate of the artist. Private collection, Queensland’ (information supplied by vendor)

Contextual Information
Source
Purchased from Deutscher and Hackett, Lots 9, 11, 13-18, December 2023

Exhibited in
Dunera: Stories of Internment
State Library of New South Wales (August 2024 – May 2025). Applies to: P4/51; PXA 7728/Items 1-7

Administrative / Biographical history
Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack (1893–1965) was an internee on the HMT Dunera and a founding member of the Bauhaus, and art master at Geelong Grammar School from 1942 to 1957. Hirschfeld-Mack was one the most well-known artists to arrive on the Dunera. During his internment Hirschfeld-Mack taught drawing classes in the camp university.

Drawing

Siobhan Campbell