Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack b. 1893

  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Theatre / Film Designer)
German Bauhaus artist whose diverse modernist practice reflects the upheaval of the second World War, when he was deported to Australia, but continued to practice and teach after his release in Victoria.

Citations

  • University of Melbourne Archives, 'Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack Collection’.

    http://gallery.its.unimelb.edu.au/imu/imu.php?request=display&port=45000&id=1792&flag=start&offset=0&count=1&view=details

  • Draffin, Nicholas (1974), 'Two Masters of the Weimar Bauhaus – Lyonel Feininger and L. Hirschfeld-Mack’, Catalogue, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW.

  • McCulloch, A. (1984), 'Encyclopedia of Australian Art’, Melbourne, Vic (Second edition).

  • Merewether, Charles (1984), 'Art and Social Commitment’, Sydney, NSW : Art Gallery of New South Wales.

  • Thomas, Daniel & Radford, Ron (1988), 'The Great Australian Art Exhibition’, CAT.

  • (1981), Catalogue, University of Melbourne, Victoria.

  • (1997), 'The Expatriates’, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Vic.

  • [career survey] in Bauhaus Diaspora and Beyond, Transforming Education through Art, Design and Architecture. Summary of Bauhaus diaspora within Australia, Philip Goad, Ann Stephen, Andrew McNamara, Harriet, Isabel Wunsche amongst the individual contributors. Miegunyah Press, Power Publications, 2019, illustrated, 279 pps.

  • Rebecca Hawcroft, “Home and Away: The Bauhaus in Australia”, Frieze, 2 October 2019.

    https://frieze.com/article/home-and-away-bauhaus-australia

See also

  • 'Internment Camp (Desolation), 1941, woodcut, AGNSW'.

Initial data sources

  • Black and white artists