sketcher, lithographer and architect, came from Bremen (Germany) to South Australia on board the Alfred in 1850. A qualified architect, Gloystein designed the German and British Hospital on East Terrace, Adelaide, the foundation stone of which was laid on 24 May 1851. In August work was reported as being 'far advanced’ and the central two-storeyed section of twelve rooms was completed by the builder, Shirmir from Hamburg, before the end of the year at a cost of £1120.
Gloystein produced lithographs after his own drawings from his premises in Freeman Street, Adelaide. These were locally published by Penman & Galbraith. Three examples survive in the Mitchell Library: San[d]ers Railway Hotel, Adelaide (1850), Bob Sanders, Landlord of the Railway Hotel, Port Adelaide (1850, titled in pencil beneath) and In Commemoration of the Old Colonists’ Festival. Adelaide the 27th March 1851 . The last is an elaborate seven-part image in three tiers with the colonists’ festival in the centre, First Settlement , a landscape and The Government House below, and Holdfast Bay , Natural State of the Town of Adelaide and Port Adelaide above. It was 'Respectfully dedicated to all his fellow colonists’ by the artist, then living at Stepney (SA).
In 1866 Gloystein appears to have been in Melbourne. He exhibited 'Architectural Drawings’ in that year’s Intercolonial Exhibition, giving his address as 82 King Street, but is otherwise unknown in Victoria. Possibly he was just passing through on his way home.
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- Staff Writer
- Date written:
- 1992
- Last updated:
- 2011
