DESOLATION, INTERNMENT CAMP, ORANGE, NSW, 1941

Important Australian + International Fine Art
Melbourne
1 December 2022
88

LUDWIG HIRSCHFELD-MACK

(German/Australian, 1893 - 1965)
DESOLATION, INTERNMENT CAMP, ORANGE, NSW, 1941

woodcut on paper

22.0 x 13.5 cm (image) 26.0 x 21.0 cm (sheet)

dated and inscribed lower right below image: Orange 1941

Estimate: 
$2,000 – $3,000
Sold for $31,909 (inc. BP) in Auction 72 - 1 December 2022, Melbourne
Provenance

The estate of the artist
Private collection, Italy

Exhibited

Two masters of the Weimar Bauhaus: Lyonel Feininger, Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 4 July – 19 August 1974, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 29 August – 6 October 1974, cat. 62 (another example)
Australian prints from the Gallery’s collection (1998 – 1999), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 6 November – 7 February 1999, cat. 64 (another example)
Bauhaus and Expressionism: German prints and drawings from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale, New South Wales, 4 March – 15 May 2005 (another example)
Masters of emotion: exploring the emotions from the old masters to the present, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria, 20 April – 24 June 2007, cat. 81 (another example)
Out of Australia: Prints and Drawings from Sidney Nolan to Rover Thomas, The British Museum, London, May – September 2011, cat. 21 (another example)
Home front: wartime Sydney 1939 – 45, Museum of Sydney, Sydney, 31 March – 9 September 2012 (another example)
Isolation, The British Museum, London, July – September 2012 (another example)
Under the Stars, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 21 March – 7 February 2021 (another example)

Literature

Draffin, N., Two masters of the Weimar Bauhaus: Lyonel Feininger, Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1974, p. 56 (illus., another example)
Eagle, M., Australian Modern Painting Between the Wars 1914 – 1939, Bay Books, Sydney, 1989, p. 21 (illus., another example)
Kolenberg, H., and Ryan, A., Australian prints from the Gallery’s collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales,
Sydney, 1998, pp. 76, 77 (illus., another example)
Sayers, S., Australian art, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001, pl. 89, p. 160 (illus., another example)
Wilson, G., The Big River show: Murrumbidgee Riverine, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, New South Wales,
2002, pp. 19 (illus. another example), 23
Hawker, P., ‘Into the heart of darkness’, The Age, Melbourne, 23 April 2002
Buckley, J., Nocturne: images of night and darkness from colonial to contemporary, Mornington Peninsula Regional
Gallery, Victoria, 2002, pp. 14 (illus., another example), 27
Butler, R., Printed images by Australian artists 1885 – 1955, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2007, p. 222 (illus., another example)
Zdanowicz, I., Masters of emotion, Mornington Peninsula Art Gallery, Victoria, 2007, p. 53 (another example)
Sayers, A., Engledow, S., and Caruana, W., Open air: portraits in the landscape, National Portrait Gallery,
Canberra, 2008, pp. 52, 53 (illus., another example)
Mares, P., ‘Remembering the Dunera’, Inside Story, 13 July 2018, https://insidestory.org.au/remembering
the–dunera/ (accessed 11/2/2022)