DESOLATION, INTERNMENT CAMP, ORANGE, NSW, 1941
LUDWIG HIRSCHFELD-MACK
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
The estate of the artist
Private collection, Italy
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)
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)
Other examples of this print are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, the British Museum, London and the University of Melbourne Art Collection, Melbourne