L. A. Bernays

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It is unknown if the art teacher Bernays was also a practicing artist but his facility for encouraging artistic excellence amongst his pupils was noted by the Sydney Mail critic, who wrote about the work of his accomplished pupils that featured in the Queensland Exhibition of 1876.

teacher, lived in Brisbane. Queensland Exhibition 1876: “There is certainly no denying that the specimens from the Queensland and Normal Schools far exceed in excellence anything that could be shown in the English schools of the same class, where, until recently, nothing of higher importance in art than rudimentary map-drawing was taught. The stewards of this department, Mr L.A. Bernays and Mr Gresley Lukin, have earned the gratitude of parents and teachers in the liberality they have shown in encouraging an artistic taste among the young” ( Sydney Mail 2 September 1876).

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Date written:
1999
Last updated:
2011